“The idea of the book is so good and so simple as to recommend itself at a glance to everybody who cares to know our trees or to make for any purpose a collection of their leaves.”--_N. Y. Critic._ =THE WONDERS OF PLANT LIFE.= By Mrs. S. B. HERRICK. Fully illustrated. 16º, $1.50. “A dainty volume ... opens up a whole world of fascination ... full of information.”--_Boston Advertiser._ =THE HOME LIFE OF WILD BIRDS.= A new method of the study and photography of birds. By FRANCIS H. HERRICK. With 141 illustrations from life. 4º, net, $2.50. Mr. Herrick has perfected an invention that brings the birds beneath his eye, and beneath the eye of his camera, in a way hitherto unheard of. At an actual distance of about 2 feet from the nest, the author and his camera stand. From that point of vantage they watch and record every movement of the bird family. =OUR INSECT FRIENDS AND FOES.= How to Collect, Preserve and Study Them. By BELLE S. CRAGIN. With over 250 illustrations. 8º, $1.75 “Although primarily intended for boys and girls, it can hardly fail to enlist the aid of the older members of the family; and for the amateur collector of all ages who has all the requisite enthusiasm but lacks a practical knowledge of the art of preserving specimens, it should receive a warm welcome.”--_Commercial Advertiser._ =AMONG THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES.= By JULIA P. BALLARD. Illustrated. 8º, $1.50. “The book, which is handsomely illustrated, is designed for young readers, relating some of the most curious facts of natural history in a singularly pleasant and instructive manner.”--_N. Y. Tribune._ =BIRD STUDIES.= An account of the Land Birds of Eastern North America. By WILLIAM E.D. SCOTT. With 166 illustrations from original photographs. Quarto, leather back, gilt top, in a box, _net_, $5.00. “A book of first class importance.... Mr. Scott has been a field naturalist for upwards of thirty years, and few persons have a more intimate acquaintance than he with bird life. His work will take high rank for scientific accuracy and we trust it may prove successful.”--_London Speaker._ =WILD FLOWERS OF THE NORTHEASTERN STATES.= Drawn and carefully described from life, without undue use of scientific nomenclature, by ELLEN MILLER and MARGARET C. WHITING. With 308 illustrations the size of life. 8º, _net_, $3.00. “Anybody who can read English can use the work and make his identifications, and, in the case of some of the flowers, the drawings alone furnish all that is necessary.... The descriptions are as good of their kind as the drawings are of theirs.”--_N. Y. Times._ =THE SHRUBS OF NORTHEASTERN AMERICA.= By CHARLES S. NEWHALL. Fully illustrated. 8º, $1.75. “This volume is beautifully printed on beautiful paper, and has a list of 116 illustrations calculated to explain the text. It has a mine of precious information, such as is seldom gathered within the covers of such a volume.”--_Baltimore Farmer._