Part 23

At last there came a day when the poor little fellow could not eat. The paralysis that disabled his legs had reached the muscles of swallowing; and then his lady knew the end had almost come. She sat on the platform where she had so often sat while Little Mitchell sunned himself on her knee, and took him gently in her hands. She put one little kiss between his ears,—and maybe there were tears in her eyes. Thus did Little Mitchell end his days.

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It is true, he was nothing but a squirrel; but living as he did with human beings, developing his intelligence, suffering, and learning love and patience, he seemed very near the human life with which his own life was spent.

THE END

THE SPINNER FAMILY

BY ALICE JEAN PATTERSON

With many illustrations by Bruce Horsfall. Price, $1.00 net

ALL wide-awake young people who are attracted by the living things about them will find Miss Patterson’s simple story very delightful. It will open to them a new and fascinating avenue of investigation. The structure and habits of the spiders are all but unknown to most of us, and we are apt to regard them as objects to be avoided. But her book makes an apparently grewsome subject inviting, and will draw them into a new field of much interest. Bruce Horsfall, that sympathetic artist of nature, has drawn a frontispiece in color, and very many pictures for the text, which reveal some of the wonders of the spider’s life, and make the narrative doubly interesting. The whole is within the comprehension of a child, and yet is so accurate that it may be trusted to state nothing which the facts of science do not warrant.

BY MISS MORLEY

LIFE AND LOVE

By MARGARET WARNER MORLEY. With profuse illustrations by the Author. Price, $1.25.

MARGARET WARNER MORLEY has written in “Life and Love” a book which should be placed in the hands of every young man and woman. It is a fearless yet clean-minded study of the development of life and the relations thereof from the protoplasm to mankind. The work is logical, instructive, impressive. It should result in the innocence of knowledge, which is better than the innocence of ignorance. It is a pleasure to see a woman handling so delicate a topic so well. Miss Morley deserves thanks for doing it so impeccably. Even a prude can find nothing to carp at in the valuable little volume.—Boston Journal.

A SONG OF LIFE

By MARGARET WARNER MORLEY. With profuse illustrations by the Author and by Robert Forsyth. Price, $1.25.

A MOST charmingly instructive book; and so beautifully explained is the great subject of life that the little ones for whom it is intended cannot but receive great benefit, while the older ones will also learn much. Something of flower life, something of fish life, of frogs and of birds, and a chapter on human life, form the subjects of this book, all told in the graceful manner of a womanly woman whose love for Nature has given her a keener insight into Nature’s secrets and a greater ability to impart those secrets to others with the ease of face-to-face talks than is vouchsafed to many people.—Boston Times.

THE HONEY MAKERS

By MARGARET WARNER MORLEY. With many illustrations by the Author. Price, $1.25.

UNLIKE Miss Morley’s other works, this book is intended for older readers. The first part of the book is devoted to the scientific exposition of the bee’s structure, habits, etc., and it is surprising how much interest and humor the author has managed to infuse into the subject. The second part performs an original and valuable service to literature. To the bees more than to any other portion of the animal kingdom has attention been devoted by poets and thinkers seeking inspiration, and from this wealth of allusion and anecdote Miss Morley has culled the choicest and most striking parts.

For sale by all booksellers

A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS

CHICAGO

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:

—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.