Chapter VII: Part 7

"The advantage of H. E. Parkhurst's 'How to Name the Birds' is not merely in its concise and careful descriptive matter, but in its form. It is the only book of the sort that one can put into the pocket of an ordinary coat and carry into the woods and fields when he is away on his country rambles."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.

SONG BIRDS AND WATER FOWL

Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50 net.

"This most entertainingly as well as carefully written volume has for one of its best values the attention it gives to that most untrampled, and yet peculiarly alluring domain of bird lore--the stream and the lake, the sea-beach and the wave. With this book Mr. Parkhurst must receive full confirmation as one of the most companionable and beguiling writers on birds."--_G. W. Cable_.

"It will be welcome to the many friends his former book made. The illustrations are the finest that have ever been printed in this country in black and white, with exception of another series by the same artist."--_The Nation_.

THE BIRDS' CALENDAR

Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50 net.

"A charming book. It contains a year's individual experience of study and observation, the birds for each month being enumerated and described, with comments on their characteristics and habits, and with very useful and beautifully printed illustrations."--_The Outlook_.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers
153-157 Fifth Avenue, New York

By Harriet L. Keeler

OUR NATIVE TREES

AND HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM

With 178 full-page plates from photographs, and 162 text-drawings. Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.

CONTENTS: GENERA AND SPECIES; ILLUSTRATIONS; GUIDE TO THE TREES; DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TREES; FORM AND STRUCTURE OF ROOTS, STEMS, LEAVES, FLOWERS AND FRUITS; THE TREE-STEM OR TRUNK; SPECIES AND GENUS; GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS; INDEX OF LATIN NAMES; INDEX OF COMMON NAMES.

CRITICAL OPINIONS

C. S. SARGENT, _Professor of Arboriculture in Harvard University_: "Of such popular books the latest and by far the most interesting is by Miss Harriet L. Keeler.... Miss Keeler's descriptions are clear, compact, and well arranged, and the technical matter is supplemented by much interesting and reliable information concerning the economical uses, the history and the origin of the trees which she describes. Outline drawings of the flowers and of the fruits of many of the species, and beautifully reproduced full-page photographic plates of the leaves or of branches of the principal trees, facilitate their determination."

"The value of a book of this character is not only enhanced by its numerous illustrations, but positively dependent upon them; those in the present volume being of unusual interest; and the book ... is one which should add new interest to the coming Summer for many to whom nature is practically a sealed book, as well as heighten the pleasure of others to whom she has long been dear."--_N. Y. Times Saturday Review_.

"The plan of the book must be heartily commended. No admirer of trees should be without it, and if you go away into the country for even a short stay, and care to know--as you should care--anything about our native trees you will find this volume an invaluable guide. One could bring home from a walk a collection of leaves and then, with the aid of the illustrations in this book, identify them all. Then you will know those trees the next time you encounter them, and they will take on a new interest and meaning to your eyes."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.

"The book is altogether an admirable specimen of book-making, alike to eye and touch. The illustrations, over 300 in number, include almost every tree mentioned, and are rarely beautiful. Especially satisfactory are the plates of the varying foliage and cones of the conifers."--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser_.