A Mother's List of Books for Children

Name: A Mother's List of Books for Children
Author: Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Children -- Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography

In the present work the writer has sought to compile a popular
     review of a great fauna--the Reptiles of North America. He has
     excluded technical phraseology and tried to produce two results:
     1. A popular book, that may be comprehended by the beginner and,
     2. A book valuable in its details to the technical
     worker.--_Preface._


GIBSON, W.H.
               Sharp Eyes.
               Harper. 2.50

This rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds, and
flowers, is made attractive to young children by the unusual quality
of the many illustrations.


GREENE, HOMER.
               Coal and the Coal Mines.
               Houghton. .75

     It has been the aim of the author to give reliable information
     free from minute details and technicalities. That information has
     been, for the most part, gathered through personal experience in
     the mines.--_Preface._

The composition and formation of coal, its discovery and introduction,
are dealt with, and a description of the mine and its dangers, and the
life of the workers therein, is given in this thoroughly satisfactory
little volume.


HARRINGTON, M.W.
               About the Weather.
               Appleton. .65

Treated from a broad scientific standpoint, much interesting       (p. 220)
information is conveyed about the laws which, discovered comparatively
recently, have proved of vital importance and utility to mankind. The
humidity and pressure of the air, the velocity of the wind, rain and
snow, sleet and hail-storms, tornadoes and cyclones, are among the
many topics discussed.


HOLLAND, W.J.
               The Moth Book.
               Doubleday. 4.00

An intelligent boy or girl of fourteen, with a real interest in the
subject, will enjoy this fine work on the moths of North America north
of Mexico, though it is written more from the standpoint of the
student than are most of the series to which it belongs. There are
fifteen hundred figures in the forty-eight colored plates, and three
hundred black and white text figures, illustrating a majority of the
larger species.


JORDAN, D.S., and B.W. EVERMANN.
               American Food and Game Fishes.
               Doubleday. 4.00

These two distinguished scientists have given in this treatise on
ichthyology a popular account of the species found in America north of
the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life-histories, and
methods of capture. There are ten lithographed plates in color, and
sixty-four in black and white from photographs from life taken by  (p. 221)
Mr. Dugmore, these being the first really successful photographs of
live fish ever secured.


KEELER, H.L.
               Our Native Trees, and How to Identify Them.
               Scribner. 2.00

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A Mother's List of Books for Children

Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Children -- Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography

In the present work the writer has sought to compile a popular
     review of a great fauna--the Reptiles of North America. He has
     excluded technical phraseology and tried to produce two results:
     1. A popular book, that may be comprehended by the beginner and,
     2. A book valuable in its details to the technical
     worker.--_Preface._


GIBSON, W.H.
               Sharp Eyes.
               Harper. 2.50

This rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds, and
flowers, is made attractive to young children by the unusual quality
of the many illustrations.


GREENE, HOMER.
               Coal and the Coal Mines.
               Houghton. .75

     It has been the aim of the author to give reliable information
     free from minute details and technicalities. That information has
     been, for the most part, gathered through personal experience in
     the mines.--_Preface._

The composition and formation of coal, its discovery and introduction,
are dealt with, and a description of the mine and its dangers, and the
life of the workers therein, is given in this thoroughly satisfactory
little volume.


HARRINGTON, M.W.
               About the Weather.
               Appleton. .65

Treated from a broad scientific standpoint, much interesting       (p. 220)
information is conveyed about the laws which, discovered comparatively
recently, have proved of vital importance and utility to mankind. The
humidity and pressure of the air, the velocity of the wind, rain and
snow, sleet and hail-storms, tornadoes and cyclones, are among the
many topics discussed.


HOLLAND, W.J.
               The Moth Book.
               Doubleday. 4.00

An intelligent boy or girl of fourteen, with a real interest in the
subject, will enjoy this fine work on the moths of North America north
of Mexico, though it is written more from the standpoint of the
student than are most of the series to which it belongs. There are
fifteen hundred figures in the forty-eight colored plates, and three
hundred black and white text figures, illustrating a majority of the
larger species.


JORDAN, D.S., and B.W. EVERMANN.
               American Food and Game Fishes.
               Doubleday. 4.00

These two distinguished scientists have given in this treatise on
ichthyology a popular account of the species found in America north of
the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life-histories, and
methods of capture. There are ten lithographed plates in color, and
sixty-four in black and white from photographs from life taken by  (p. 221)
Mr. Dugmore, these being the first really successful photographs of
live fish ever secured.


KEELER, H.L.
               Our Native Trees, and How to Identify Them.
               Scribner. 2.00

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Mother's List of Books for Children

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