Margaret W. Morley's "The Bee People" is worthy of its subject, and that's about the highest praise you could give to a book about bees, I think. Then don't forget, when you are in the library, to look up her "Grasshopper Land." The grasshopper book also treats of the grasshopper's cousins, which include the crickets and the katydids; yes, and the "walking sticks"; and the "praying mantis." (Did you know that whether you spell this weird little creature's first name, "praying," with an "e" or an "a" you'd be correct?) Every boy and girl, of course, is supposed to know about Ernest Thompson Seton's books, but for fear some of them don't, I'll mention a few that it simply wouldn't do to miss. "Animal Heroes" gives the history of a cat, a dog, a pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer; "Krag and Johnny Bear" is made up from his larger book, "Lives of the Hunted"; "Lobo, Rag and Vixen" is from his "Wild Animals I Have Known," and "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag." John Burroughs is very different from Seton and Long, but the older you get the better you will like him. His is one of the great names in the study of Nature's pages at first hand and, as literature, ranks with the work of Thoreau. Get his "Birds, Bees and Other Papers," "Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers." Darwin, one of the greatest men in the whole history of science--the man whose name is most prominently identified with the greatest discovery in science, the principle of evolution--how do you suppose he started out? Just by looking around! Read about it in "What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage around the World." INDEX (For numerous practical suggestions as to the use of an index the reader is referred to the preface to the index in the author's "Strange Adventures of a Pebble.") Africa, one country where the Hornbills live, 169 Ants, their interesting habits in relation to the history of the soil, 94; ants that thresh and store, 205, 213; how they clean up after the day's work, 208 Aphids, how they supply the ants with honey, 99 Armadillo, a four-footed farmer who wears armor; how fast he can dig, 120; the funny gimlet nose that helps him travel so fast under the ground, 121 Asia, one of the countries where the Hornbills live, 169; home of a farmer who stores grain for the winter, 212 Australia, home of that animal paradox, the Duck-billed Mole, 144; and of birds that hatch their babies with an incubator, 174 Bears, how they go into winter quarters, 216, 219 Beavers, their work and their wisdom, 148 Bees. (See Mason Bee and Bumblebee.) Beetle, Sacred (Tumble Bug), sinful tactics of, 92 Birds, their ancestors among the ancient monsters, 24; service of the Moas in ploughing and in grinding up rock, 28; other farmers who wear feathers, 162 Bumblebees, their homes under the ground, 104