By Ernest Seton-ThompsonTHE TRAIL OF THESANDHILL STAGWritten and illustrated with 60 drawings, by ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON. Square 12mo, $1.50.CRITICAL NOTICES"One of the most thoroughly attractive of the autumn books.... The story is almost too perfect a whole to lend itself readily to quotation.... A story to be read and re-read, finding fresh beauty at each reading, and a book well worth the owning.... It is impossible to write too highly of the illustrations. Pictures which really illustrate are all too rare, and the combination of author-artist is usually a fascinating one."--New York Times."It is difficult to determine which gives one the most pleasure in a book by Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson--the author-artist's narrative or the artist-author's pictures. The two together certainly, as in the case of 'The Trail of the Sandhill Stag,' unite to produce a singularly harmonious result. Mr. Seton-Thompson can read the heart of the hunted animal as well as count the pulse-beats of the huntsman himself, and in this tale is condensed the whole tragic story of the chase. This double point of view is unique with this writer."--"Droch" inLife."Bliss Carman, speaking of 'The Trail of the Sandhill Stag,' says: 'I had fancied that no one could touch 'The Jungle Book' for a generation at least, but Mr. Thompson has done it. We must give him place among the young masters at once.' And we agree with Mr. Carman."--The Bookman."Nothing more beautiful in a dainty way has been brought out in Canada."--Toronto World."It gives us again glimpses of the life of animals that are astonishing for their delicacy of perception, and charming by the deftness of their literary form."--New York Mail and Express."A breezy little narrative of outdoor life.... The author has celebrated the steadfast hunt and its interesting end with art and emotion"--New York Tribune."Is a truly poetic bit of impressionistic prose."--Chicago Tribune.By Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. Dana)HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSA Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Native Ferns. By FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS (Mrs. Dana). With 144 full-page illustrations, and 6 full-page illustrations from photographs. Crown 8vo, $1.50 net."Since the publication, six years ago, of 'How to Know the Wild Flowers,' I have received such convincing testimony of the eagerness of nature-lovers of all ages and conditions to familiarize themselves with the inhabitants of our woods and fields, and so many assurances of the joy which such a familiarity affords, that I have prepared this companion volume on 'How to Know the Ferns.' It has been my experience that the world of delight which opens before us when we are admitted into some sort of intimacy with our companions other than human, is enlarged with each new society into which we win our way."--From the Author's Preface."Of the ferns, as the flowers, she writes as one who not only knows but loves them. The charm of her fern-book is as irresistible and pervading as is the charm of nature itself. This gifted and enthusiastic naturalist knows the ferns literally 'like a book,' and her book makes the first lesson of the novice in the lore of fern-life an easy and a delightful task."--New York Mail and Express."This is a notably thorough little volume. The text is not voluminous, and even with its many full-page illustrations the book is small; but brevity, as we are glad to see so many writers on nature learning, is the first of virtues in this field.... The author of 'How to Know the Ferns' has mastered her subject, and she treats of it with authority."--New York Tribune."The inspiration that entered into and made 'How to Know the Wild Flowers' so deservedly popular has not been lost in 'How to Know the Ferns.'"--New York Times.ACCORDING TO SEASONTalks about the Flowers in the Order of their Appearance in the Woods and Fields. 16mo, 75 cents."Whoever shall start out for a country walk with this little book will add greatly to present enjoyments, and will be continually acquiring a fund of useful and agreeable knowledge."--Public Opinion.A SELECTION OF FIFTY PLATESFrom "How to Know the Wild Flowers." Printed on Special Paper suitable for Coloring by Hand, The set, in a portfolio, $1.00 net.Books for Lovers of NatureOn Flowers, Animals and BirdsCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PublishersHOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERSBy MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANAWith 48 Colored Plates and New Black and White Drawings, Enlarged, Rewritten and Entirely ResetA Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Native Wild Flowers. With 48 full-page colored plates by ELSIE LOUISE SHAW, and no full-page illustrations by MARION SATTERLEE. 60th Thousand. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.This new edition has been enlarged, revised, and entirely reset, the illustrations have been remade, and it has in addition 48 full-page colored plates from drawings by Miss ELSIE LOUISE SHAW, made especially for this edition.The Nationsays: "Every flower-lover who has spent weary hours puzzling over a botanical key in the efforts to name unknown plants, will welcome this satisfactory book, which stands ready to lead him to the desired knowledge by a royal road. The book is well fitted to the need of many who have no botanical knowledge and yet are interested in wild flowers.""I am delighted with it.... It is so exactly the kind of work needed for outdoor folks who live in the country but know little of systematic botany, that it is a wonder no one has written it before."--Hon. Theodore Roosevelt."It is not often that a book so suggestive of pleasure, pure and simple, comes our way. So far as we recall books on flowers, it is the first that makes country walks an intelligent joy for those who know nothing of botany but who have eyes to see and minds to question."--The New York Times.By H. E. ParkhurstHOW TO NAME THE BIRDSIllustrated. 16mo, leather, $1.00 net."Mr. Parkhurst has compiled a convenient pocket guide to the birds of the New England States, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He has greatly simplified the common system of bird classification for the beginner by omitting such details as are invisible at field-range, and by emphasizing such characteristics as color, size, and time of appearance."--Review of Reviews."He has given to his book every advantage essential to a plain, straight-forward account of honest observation."--N. Y. Tribune."The advantage of H. E. Parkhurst's 'How to Name the Birds' is not merely in its concise and careful descriptive matter, but in its form. It is the only book of the sort that one can put into the pocket of an ordinary coat and carry into the woods and fields when he is away on his country rambles."--Brooklyn Eagle.SONG BIRDS AND WATER FOWLIllustrated. 12mo, $1.50 net."This most entertainingly as well as carefully written volume has for one of its best values the attention it gives to that most untrampled, and yet peculiarly alluring domain of bird lore--the stream and the lake, the sea-beach and the wave. With this book Mr. Parkhurst must receive full confirmation as one of the most companionable and beguiling writers on birds."--G. W. Cable."It will be welcome to the many friends his former book made. The illustrations are the finest that have ever been printed in this country in black and white, with exception of another series by the same artist."--The Nation.THE BIRDS' CALENDARIllustrated. 12mo, $1.50 net."A charming book. It contains a year's individual experience of study and observation, the birds for each month being enumerated and described, with comments on their characteristics and habits, and with very useful and beautifully printed illustrations."--The Outlook.CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers153-157 Fifth Avenue, New YorkBy Harriet L. KeelerOUR NATIVE TREESAND HOW TO IDENTIFY THEMWith 178 full-page plates from photographs, and 162 text-drawings. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.CONTENTS: GENERA AND SPECIES; ILLUSTRATIONS; GUIDE TO THE TREES; DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TREES; FORM AND STRUCTURE OF ROOTS, STEMS, LEAVES, FLOWERS AND FRUITS; THE TREE-STEM OR TRUNK; SPECIES AND GENUS; GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS; INDEX OF LATIN NAMES; INDEX OF COMMON NAMES.CRITICAL OPINIONSC. S. SARGENT,Professor of Arboriculture in Harvard University: "Of such popular books the latest and by far the most interesting is by Miss Harriet L. Keeler.... Miss Keeler's descriptions are clear, compact, and well arranged, and the technical matter is supplemented by much interesting and reliable information concerning the economical uses, the history and the origin of the trees which she describes. Outline drawings of the flowers and of the fruits of many of the species, and beautifully reproduced full-page photographic plates of the leaves or of branches of the principal trees, facilitate their determination.""The value of a book of this character is not only enhanced by its numerous illustrations, but positively dependent upon them; those in the present volume being of unusual interest; and the book ... is one which should add new interest to the coming Summer for many to whom nature is practically a sealed book, as well as heighten the pleasure of others to whom she has long been dear."--N. Y. Times Saturday Review."The plan of the book must be heartily commended. No admirer of trees should be without it, and if you go away into the country for even a short stay, and care to know--as you should care--anything about our native trees you will find this volume an invaluable guide. One could bring home from a walk a collection of leaves and then, with the aid of the illustrations in this book, identify them all. Then you will know those trees the next time you encounter them, and they will take on a new interest and meaning to your eyes."--Brooklyn Eagle."The book is altogether an admirable specimen of book-making, alike to eye and touch. The illustrations, over 300 in number, include almost every tree mentioned, and are rarely beautiful. Especially satisfactory are the plates of the varying foliage and cones of the conifers."--N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKMOOSWA & OTHERS OF THE BOUNDARIES***
By Ernest Seton-Thompson
THE TRAIL OF THESANDHILL STAG
Written and illustrated with 60 drawings, by ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON. Square 12mo, $1.50.
CRITICAL NOTICES
"One of the most thoroughly attractive of the autumn books.... The story is almost too perfect a whole to lend itself readily to quotation.... A story to be read and re-read, finding fresh beauty at each reading, and a book well worth the owning.... It is impossible to write too highly of the illustrations. Pictures which really illustrate are all too rare, and the combination of author-artist is usually a fascinating one."--New York Times.
"It is difficult to determine which gives one the most pleasure in a book by Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson--the author-artist's narrative or the artist-author's pictures. The two together certainly, as in the case of 'The Trail of the Sandhill Stag,' unite to produce a singularly harmonious result. Mr. Seton-Thompson can read the heart of the hunted animal as well as count the pulse-beats of the huntsman himself, and in this tale is condensed the whole tragic story of the chase. This double point of view is unique with this writer."--"Droch" inLife.
"Bliss Carman, speaking of 'The Trail of the Sandhill Stag,' says: 'I had fancied that no one could touch 'The Jungle Book' for a generation at least, but Mr. Thompson has done it. We must give him place among the young masters at once.' And we agree with Mr. Carman."--The Bookman.
"Nothing more beautiful in a dainty way has been brought out in Canada."--Toronto World.
"It gives us again glimpses of the life of animals that are astonishing for their delicacy of perception, and charming by the deftness of their literary form."--New York Mail and Express.
"A breezy little narrative of outdoor life.... The author has celebrated the steadfast hunt and its interesting end with art and emotion"--New York Tribune.
"Is a truly poetic bit of impressionistic prose."--Chicago Tribune.
By Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. Dana)
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNS
A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Native Ferns. By FRANCES THEODORA PARSONS (Mrs. Dana). With 144 full-page illustrations, and 6 full-page illustrations from photographs. Crown 8vo, $1.50 net.
"Since the publication, six years ago, of 'How to Know the Wild Flowers,' I have received such convincing testimony of the eagerness of nature-lovers of all ages and conditions to familiarize themselves with the inhabitants of our woods and fields, and so many assurances of the joy which such a familiarity affords, that I have prepared this companion volume on 'How to Know the Ferns.' It has been my experience that the world of delight which opens before us when we are admitted into some sort of intimacy with our companions other than human, is enlarged with each new society into which we win our way."--From the Author's Preface.
"Of the ferns, as the flowers, she writes as one who not only knows but loves them. The charm of her fern-book is as irresistible and pervading as is the charm of nature itself. This gifted and enthusiastic naturalist knows the ferns literally 'like a book,' and her book makes the first lesson of the novice in the lore of fern-life an easy and a delightful task."--New York Mail and Express.
"This is a notably thorough little volume. The text is not voluminous, and even with its many full-page illustrations the book is small; but brevity, as we are glad to see so many writers on nature learning, is the first of virtues in this field.... The author of 'How to Know the Ferns' has mastered her subject, and she treats of it with authority."--New York Tribune.
"The inspiration that entered into and made 'How to Know the Wild Flowers' so deservedly popular has not been lost in 'How to Know the Ferns.'"--New York Times.
ACCORDING TO SEASON
Talks about the Flowers in the Order of their Appearance in the Woods and Fields. 16mo, 75 cents.
"Whoever shall start out for a country walk with this little book will add greatly to present enjoyments, and will be continually acquiring a fund of useful and agreeable knowledge."--Public Opinion.
A SELECTION OF FIFTY PLATES
From "How to Know the Wild Flowers." Printed on Special Paper suitable for Coloring by Hand, The set, in a portfolio, $1.00 net.
Books for Lovers of Nature
On Flowers, Animals and Birds
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers
HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS
By MRS. WILLIAM STARR DANA
With 48 Colored Plates and New Black and White Drawings, Enlarged, Rewritten and Entirely Reset
A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of our Native Wild Flowers. With 48 full-page colored plates by ELSIE LOUISE SHAW, and no full-page illustrations by MARION SATTERLEE. 60th Thousand. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.
This new edition has been enlarged, revised, and entirely reset, the illustrations have been remade, and it has in addition 48 full-page colored plates from drawings by Miss ELSIE LOUISE SHAW, made especially for this edition.The Nationsays: "Every flower-lover who has spent weary hours puzzling over a botanical key in the efforts to name unknown plants, will welcome this satisfactory book, which stands ready to lead him to the desired knowledge by a royal road. The book is well fitted to the need of many who have no botanical knowledge and yet are interested in wild flowers."
"I am delighted with it.... It is so exactly the kind of work needed for outdoor folks who live in the country but know little of systematic botany, that it is a wonder no one has written it before."--Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.
"It is not often that a book so suggestive of pleasure, pure and simple, comes our way. So far as we recall books on flowers, it is the first that makes country walks an intelligent joy for those who know nothing of botany but who have eyes to see and minds to question."--The New York Times.
By H. E. Parkhurst
HOW TO NAME THE BIRDS
Illustrated. 16mo, leather, $1.00 net.
"Mr. Parkhurst has compiled a convenient pocket guide to the birds of the New England States, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He has greatly simplified the common system of bird classification for the beginner by omitting such details as are invisible at field-range, and by emphasizing such characteristics as color, size, and time of appearance."--Review of Reviews.
"He has given to his book every advantage essential to a plain, straight-forward account of honest observation."--N. Y. Tribune.
"The advantage of H. E. Parkhurst's 'How to Name the Birds' is not merely in its concise and careful descriptive matter, but in its form. It is the only book of the sort that one can put into the pocket of an ordinary coat and carry into the woods and fields when he is away on his country rambles."--Brooklyn Eagle.
SONG BIRDS AND WATER FOWL
Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50 net.
"This most entertainingly as well as carefully written volume has for one of its best values the attention it gives to that most untrampled, and yet peculiarly alluring domain of bird lore--the stream and the lake, the sea-beach and the wave. With this book Mr. Parkhurst must receive full confirmation as one of the most companionable and beguiling writers on birds."--G. W. Cable.
"It will be welcome to the many friends his former book made. The illustrations are the finest that have ever been printed in this country in black and white, with exception of another series by the same artist."--The Nation.
THE BIRDS' CALENDAR
Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50 net.
"A charming book. It contains a year's individual experience of study and observation, the birds for each month being enumerated and described, with comments on their characteristics and habits, and with very useful and beautifully printed illustrations."--The Outlook.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers153-157 Fifth Avenue, New York
By Harriet L. Keeler
OUR NATIVE TREES
AND HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM
With 178 full-page plates from photographs, and 162 text-drawings. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.
CONTENTS: GENERA AND SPECIES; ILLUSTRATIONS; GUIDE TO THE TREES; DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TREES; FORM AND STRUCTURE OF ROOTS, STEMS, LEAVES, FLOWERS AND FRUITS; THE TREE-STEM OR TRUNK; SPECIES AND GENUS; GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS; INDEX OF LATIN NAMES; INDEX OF COMMON NAMES.
CRITICAL OPINIONS
C. S. SARGENT,Professor of Arboriculture in Harvard University: "Of such popular books the latest and by far the most interesting is by Miss Harriet L. Keeler.... Miss Keeler's descriptions are clear, compact, and well arranged, and the technical matter is supplemented by much interesting and reliable information concerning the economical uses, the history and the origin of the trees which she describes. Outline drawings of the flowers and of the fruits of many of the species, and beautifully reproduced full-page photographic plates of the leaves or of branches of the principal trees, facilitate their determination."
"The value of a book of this character is not only enhanced by its numerous illustrations, but positively dependent upon them; those in the present volume being of unusual interest; and the book ... is one which should add new interest to the coming Summer for many to whom nature is practically a sealed book, as well as heighten the pleasure of others to whom she has long been dear."--N. Y. Times Saturday Review.
"The plan of the book must be heartily commended. No admirer of trees should be without it, and if you go away into the country for even a short stay, and care to know--as you should care--anything about our native trees you will find this volume an invaluable guide. One could bring home from a walk a collection of leaves and then, with the aid of the illustrations in this book, identify them all. Then you will know those trees the next time you encounter them, and they will take on a new interest and meaning to your eyes."--Brooklyn Eagle.
"The book is altogether an admirable specimen of book-making, alike to eye and touch. The illustrations, over 300 in number, include almost every tree mentioned, and are rarely beautiful. Especially satisfactory are the plates of the varying foliage and cones of the conifers."--N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKMOOSWA & OTHERS OF THE BOUNDARIES***