The Factor sent Roderick in to Edmonton with his own team, and nursing soon put him right.
When he told about the angels feeding him, and keeping his fire going, the people listened a little awe-stricken, for they saw that he believed it firmly. Also the two Hunters a.s.serted that the fire was burning brightly when they came. Perhaps after all it was the angels.
By John B. Grant
OUR COMMON BIRDS AND HOW TO KNOW THEM
BY JOHN B. GRANT. With 64 full-page plates. Oblong 12mo, $1.50 net.
PARTIAL LIST OF PLATES: HOOT OWL, BELTED KINGFISHER, WHIP-POOR-WILL, KINGBIRD, PHOEBE, BLUE JAY, BOBOLINK, MEADOWLARK, ORCHARD ORIOLE, PURPLE FINCH, RED CROSSBILL, SNOWFLAKE, s...o...b..RD, SONG SPARROW, CARDINAL, SUMMER REDBIRD, CEDARBIRD, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BROWN THRUSH, WINTER WREN, WOOD THRUSH, ROBIN, and 42 Others.
The author of this attractive volume dwells upon some ninety specimens of our common birds, and between the remarkably lifelike ill.u.s.trations and the straightforward, easily intelligible descriptions, no one need be at a loss for the name or habits of any bird an outdoor ramble reveals. A calendar of the times of arrival and departure of the various species in the lat.i.tude of New York enables the student to know what to look for at any given date, and the fine literary quality of the book adds a charm to its use quite dispelling any unpleasant "textbook"
a.s.sociations.
"The book is learned, but not too much so for common use, and, if carefully studied, it will introduce the student into that interesting world of bird life where a few favored mortals, such as the author, Bradford Torrey, Olive Thorne Miller and a small handful more, have won their way and brought back so much of delight. The book has more than sixty plates of the commoner American birds, with descriptions, and a very enjoyable and instructive introductory essay."--_The Congregationalist_.
"It gives plain, practical ill.u.s.tration regarding birds and how best to study them in their haunts and homes in the woods and fields. The plates adorn the pages and give value to the concise, clearly written text."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean_.
"With the fine ill.u.s.trations and the simple and comprehensive text, there is no excuse for the lover of birds to remain in ignorance of all the information he needs to enable him to recognize at sight, and to name unerringly, any bird he is likely to see in his walks in wood and field,"--_Boston Sat.u.r.day Gazette_.
By Ernest Seton-Thompson
WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN
Being the Personal Histories of Lobo the Wolf, Silverspot the Crow, Raggylug the Rabbit, Bingo my Dog, The Springfield Fox, The Pacing Mustang, Wully the Yaller Dog, and Redruff the Partridge. With 200 ill.u.s.trations from drawings by the author. Fifty-first Thousand. Square 12mo, $2.00.
CRITICAL NOTICES
"It should be put with Kipling and Hans Christian Andersen as a cla.s.sic."--_The Athenaeum_.
"Mr. Thompson is now drawing the best mammals of any American artist.. .
. This is artistic fidelity to nature in high degree.... Nothing of equal simplicity could be more effective than these little marginal oddities and whimsies. The book is thoroughly good, both in purpose and execution."--_New York Evening Post_.
"This book is unique in conception and ill.u.s.tration.... One of the most valuable contributions to animal psychology and biography that has yet appeared. Mr. Seton-Thompson is not only a naturalist and an animal artist of very high attainments, but is master of a literary style that is at once graphic and fascinating.... The author of "Wild Animals I Have Known" is a keen woodsman, as well as an accomplished artist and writer, and has given us a book that opens a new field to our vision."--_J. A. Allen in The American Naturalist_.
"In its mechanical make-up the book is a great success. The ill.u.s.trations by the author are among the best of modern book-making."--_Boston Universalist Leader_.
"Nothing apart from "The Jungle Book" has ever approached these tales in interest, and the 200 ill.u.s.trations add greatly to their charm."--_New York World_.
"The originality and freshness of these stories is irresistible.... In everything he does, Mr. Thompson has a way peculiarly his own.... Even if naked and unadorned, the facts he tells us would be very interesting; but when we have the facts and the factors fairly dancing before us, clothed in all the quaint quips and droll persiflage of an accomplished humorist and born story-teller, they are--as I have said--irresistible."--_Mr. William T. Hornaday, Director N. Y.
Zoological Park, in Recreation_.
By Ernest Seton-Thompson
THE TRAIL OF THE SANDHILL STAG
Written and ill.u.s.trated 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 ill.u.s.trations. Pictures which really ill.u.s.trate 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" in _Life_.
"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 ill.u.s.trations, and 6 full-page ill.u.s.trations 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 a.s.surances 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 ill.u.s.trations 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.