Part 17

The unique merit of this nature student rests in his fascinating style of writing, which invariably interests young and old; for without this element his pioneer work in the realm of nature would now be familiar only to scientists. As it is, Long's Wood Folk Series is in use in thousands of schools the country over, has been adopted by many reading circles, and is now on the library lists of six important states; thus leading laymen, young and old, into the wonderland of nature hitherto entirely closed to all.

WAYS OF WOOD FOLK

205 pages. Illustrated. List price, 50 cents; mailing price, 60 cents

This delightful work tells of the lives and habits of the commoner wood folk, such as the crow, the rabbit, the wild duck. The book is profusely illustrated by Charles Copeland and other artists.

WILDERNESS WAYS

155 pages. Illustrated. List price, 45 cents; mailing price, 50 cents

"Wilderness Ways" is written in the same intensely interesting style as its predecessor, "Ways of Wood Folk." The hidden life of the wilderness is here presented by sketches and stories gathered, not from books or hearsay, but from the author's personal contact with wild things of every description.

SECRETS OF THE WOODS

184 pages. Illustrated. List price, 50 cents; mailing price, 60 cents

This is another chapter in the shy, wild life of the fields and woods. Little Toohkees, the wood mouse that dies of fright in the author's hand; the mother otter, Keeonekh, teaching her little ones to swim; and the little red squirrel with his many curious habits,--all are presented with the same liveliness and color that characterize the descriptions in the first two volumes. The illustrations by Charles Copeland are unusually accurate in portraying animal life as it really exists in its native haunts.

WOOD FOLK AT SCHOOL

186 pages. Illustrated. List price, 50 cents; mailing price, 60 cents

The title of this new book suggests the central thought about which the author has grouped some of his most fascinating animal studies. To him "the summer wilderness is one vast schoolroom in which a multitude of wise, patient mothers are teaching their little ones the things they must know in order to hold their place in the world and escape unharmed from a hundred dangers." This book, also, is adequately illustrated by Charles Copeland.

A LITTLE BROTHER TO THE BEAR

178 pages. Illustrated. List price, 50 cents; mailing price, 60 cents

This latest book in the Wood Folk Series contains observations covering a period of nearly thirty years. Some of the chapters represent the characteristics of animals of the same species, and others show the acute intelligence of certain individual animals that nature seems to have lifted far above the level of their fellows. The book is well illustrated and is the most noteworthy contribution to nature literature during the past two years.

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NATURE STUDY

List Mailing price price The Jane Andrews Books: The Seven Little Sisters $0.50 $0.55 Each and All .50 .55 Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children .50 .55 My Four Friends .40 .45 Atkinson's First Studies of Plant Life .60 .70 Beal's Seed Dispersal .35 .40 Bergen's Glimpses at the Plant World .40 .45 Burt's Little Nature Studies for Little People. Vol. I. A Primer and a First Reader. Vol. II. A Second Reader and a Third Reader each .25 .30 Burkett, Stevens, and Hill's Agriculture for Beginners .75 .80 Comstock's Ways of the Six-Footed .40 .45 Eddy's Friends and Helpers .60 .70 Frye's Brooks and Brook Basins .58 .70 Frye's Child and Nature .80 .88 Gould's Mother Nature's Children .60 .70 Hale's Little Flower People .40 .45 Hardy's Sea Stories Hodge's Nature Study and Life 1.50 1.65 Holden's The Sciences .50 .60 Jefferies' Sir Bevis .30 .35 Lane's Oriole Stories .28 .33 Long's Wood Folk Series: Ways of Wood Folk .50 .60 Wilderness Ways .45 .50 Secrets of the Woods .50 .60 Wood Folk at School .50 .60 Morley's Little Wanderers .30 .35 Morley's Insect Folk .45 .50 Porter's Stars in Song and Legend .50 .55 Roth's First Book of Forestry .75 .85 Stickney's Study and Story Nature Readers: Earth and Sky, No. I .30 .35 Earth and Sky, No. II .30 .35 Pets and Companions .30 .40 Bird World .60 .70 Strong's All the Year Round. Part I, Autumn. Part II, Winter. Part III, Spring each .30 .35 Weed's Seed-Travellers .25 .30 Weed's Stories of Insect Life: First Series .25 .30 Second Series. (Murtfeldt and Weed) .30 .35

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TEXT-BOOKS IN ELEMENTARY SCIENCE

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AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS

By C. W. BURKETT, Professor of Agriculture; F. L. STEVENS, Professor of Biology; and D. H. HILL, Professor of English in the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts

12mo. Cloth. 267 pages. Illustrated. List price, 75 cents; mailing price, 80 cents

No book for common schools in recent years has aroused such widespread interest and been so universally commended as this little volume. Its adoption in two great states before its publication, and in still another state immediately after its appearance, indicates the unusually high merit of the work.

The authors believe that there is no line of separation between the science of agriculture and the practical art of agriculture, and that the subject is eminently teachable. Theory and practice are presented at one and the same time, so that the pupil is taught the fundamental principles of farming just as he is taught the fundamental truths of arithmetic, geography, or grammar.