Chapter 1

Parsons, Frances Theodora (Mrs. W. S. Dana): According to Season. Talks about the flowers in the order of their appearance in the woods and fields 1.75

Rogers, Julia Ellen: The Tree Book. North American trees, uses, and culture 3.00

Roth, Filibert: First Book of Forestry 1.25

Spear, Mary A.: Leaves and Flowers. Botany for young learners, giving the principal botanical terms 0.25

Weed, Clarence M.: Seed Travellers. On seed dispersal; for older children 0.25

II

BOOKS HELPFUL IN STUDYING ANIMAL LIFE

American Humane Education Society: Publications, and "Our Dumb Animals," a magazine Per year $0.50

Bass, Florence: Animal Life. Nature Stories for Young Readers 0.35

Bateman, Rev. Gregory C.: Fresh Water Aquaria 1.40

Burroughs, John: Locusts and Wild Honey 1.25 Signs and Seasons 1.25 Wake Robin 1.25 Ways of Nature 1.50

Chapman, Frank M.: Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America 3.00

Comstock, Anna Botsford: Ways of the Six-Footed. Stories of Insect Life 0.40

Comstock, John Henry: Insect Life 1.75

Dixon, Charles: Birds' Nests 1.20

Eddy, Sarah J.: Friends and Helpers 0.60

Howard, Leland O.: The Insect Book 3.00

Hulbert, W. D.: Forest Neighbors. Life Stories of Wild Animals 1.50

Jackson, Gabrielle E.: The Adventures of Tommy Postoffice. The True Story of a Cat 0.75

Jackson, Helen Hunt: Cat Stories 2.00

Job, Herbert K.: Wild Wings. Adventures of a Camera Hunter among the larger Wild Birds of North America over Sea and Land 3.00

Jordan, David Starr (_Editor_): True Tales of Birds and Beasts 0.40

Keyser, Leander S.: Birds of the Rockies 1.50

Long, William J.: Ways of the Wood Folk 0.50 Wilderness Ways 0.45 Secrets of the Woods 0.50 Wood Folk at School 0.50 A Little Brother to the Bear, and Other Animal Stories 1.50

Mathews, F. Schuyler: Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music 2.00 Familiar Life in Field and Forest. The Animals, Birds, Frogs, and Salamanders 1.75

Miller, Mary Rogers: The Brook Book 1.35

Morley, Margaret W.: Butterflies and Bees 0.60 The Insect Folk 0.45 A Song of Life 1.25 Life and Love 1.25 The Bee People 1.25 The Honey-Makers 1.25 Little Mitchell. The Story of a Squirrel 1.25 Our Four-Footed Friends. A Monthly Magazine. Per year 0.50

Patterson, Alice Jean: The Spinner Family. About Spiders 1.00

Repplier, Agnes: The Fireside Sphinx. A Book about Cats for Older Readers 2.00

Seton, Ernest Thompson: Animal Heroes 2.00 The Biography of a Grizzly 1.50 Lives of the Hunted 1.75 The Trail of the Sandhill Stag 1.50 Wild Animals I Have Known 2.00

Weed, Clarence M.: Stories of Insect Life Spring and Summer. First Series 0.25 Autumn. Second Series 0.30

Wheelock, Irene Grosvenor: Nestlings of Forest and Marsh 1.00

Winslow, Helen M.: Concerning Cats. Stories of Historical and Other Cats 1.50

Wood, Rev. Theodore: A Natural History of Birds, Fishes, etc. 1.25

Wright, Julia McNair: Seaside and Wayside. School reading books. 4 vols. Vol. I. 0.25 Vol. II. 0.35 Vol. III. 0.45 Vol. IV. 0.60

III

MISCELLANEOUS

Ellis, Havelock: Man and Woman. For those interested in the philosophical and scientific side of the subject. In the Contemporary Science Series 1.50

Geddes and Thompson: The Evolution of Sex. Contemporary Science Series 1.50

Hall, G. Stanley: Adolescence. Two volumes 7.50

Layard, Rev. E. B.: Religion in Boyhood. Chapter on How to Form Character. This book has an Introduction by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, head master of Groton School, Groton, Mass. 0.75

Lyttleton, Rev. the Hon. E.: Mothers and Sons 1.00 Training of the Young in Laws of Sex 1.00

Stall, Sylvanus, D.D.: What a Young Boy Ought to Know 1.00 What a Young Man Ought to Know 1.00 What a Young Husband Ought to Know 1.00 What a Man of Forty-five Ought to Know 1.00

Wood-Allen, Dr. Mary: What a Young Girl Ought to Know 1.00 What a Young Woman Ought to Know 1.00 What a Young Wife Ought to Know 1.00 Almost a Man 0.50 Almost a Woman 0.50

BY MISS MORLEY

The Bee People

_ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR_

Price $1.25

It is the story, told in most fascinating style, of the honey bee, how it is born, how it lives, how it gathers honey, and all about it, not omitting its sting. The bee is credited with powers of reasoning, and the troubles of the queen bee in retaining her throne are set forth in a delightfully fairy-story-like way which will win every child that reads it.--_The Times, Philadelphia._

Probably no branch of natural history is more interesting than the bee people, and when told by an appreciative student is doubly so. Miss Morley carries out the human idea suggested in the title; and the worker, the drone, the queen, and all the inmates of a hive are given a life-like personality. Many illustrations aid in telling the story, and many wonderful things concerning the habits of these little people are constantly revealed.--_The Detroit News Tribune._

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The Honey Makers

_ILLUSTRATED 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.

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A Song of Life

_ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR AND ROBERT FORSYTH_

Price $1.25

With simple, beautiful phrases, with pure and admiring words to describe the process of life, and with scores of gracefully outlined forms of plant and bird and beast by a helpful artist, has this song of life been sung and illustrated to delight and instruct in the happiest way many a wondering child concerning the mystery of life.--_The Churchman, New York._

The plan of the work is novel, and the narrative is accurate and interesting to an unusual degree. Few writers on life's history give so much of it in a space so limited.--_The Nation, New York._

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Life and Love

_ILLUSTRATED 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._

It is an agreeable and useful little volume, explanatory of the mysteries of plant and animal life,--such a book as parents will do well to place in the hands of thoughtful, or, better still, of thoughtless children.--_Philadelphia Press._

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Little Mitchell

THE STORY OF A MOUNTAIN SQUIRREL

_ILLUSTRATED BY BRUCE HORSFALL_

Price $1.25

Miss Morley's own words give the best idea of this most engaging little book:

"Baby Mitchell was an August squirrel. That is, he was born in the month of August. His pretty gray mother found a nice hole, high up in the crotch of a tall chestnut tree, for her babies' nest; and I know that she lined it with soft fur plucked from her own loving little breast,--for that is the way the squirrel mothers do.

"This chestnut tree grew on the side of a steep mountain,--none other than Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain peak in all the eastern half of the United States. It is in North Carolina, where there are a great many beautiful mountains, but none of them more beautiful than Mount Mitchell, with the great forest trees on its slopes."

A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A great deal of confusion exists in many minds as to the origin of pollen and ovule. There seems to be a general and almost ineradicable impression that fertilization has something to do in creating the ovule. This is not so. The ovule is a part of every ovary just as the pollen is a part of every anther. Each will be produced whether they ever come together or not; only if they do not come together, both perish, while if they do, development of the ovule continues.