BOOKS ON NATURE STUDY BY
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
Handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents per volume, postpaid.
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THE KINDRED OF THE WILD. A Book of Animal Life. With illustrations byCharles Livingston Bull.
Appeals alike to the young and to the merely youthful-hearted. Closeobservation. Graphic description. We get a sense of the great wild andits denizens. Out of the common. Vigorous and full of character. Thebook is one to be enjoyed; all the more because it smacks of the forestinstead of the museum. John Burroughs says: "The volume is in many waysthe most brilliant collection of Animal Stories that has appeared. Itreaches a high order of literary merit."
THE HEART OF THE ANCIENT WOOD. Illustrated.
This book strikes a new note in literature. It is a realistic romanceof the folk of the forest--a romance of the alliance of peace between apioneer's daughter in the depths of the ancient wood and the wildbeasts who felt her spell and became her friends. It is not fanciful,with talking beasts; nor is it merely an exquisite idyl of the beaststhemselves. It is an actual romance, in which the animal charactersplay their parts as naturally as do the human. The atmosphere of thebook is enchanting. The reader feels the undulating, whimpering musicof the forest, the power of the shady silences, the dignity of thebeasts who live closest to the heart of the wood.
THE WATCHERS OF THE TRAILS. A companion volume to the "Kindred of theWild." With 48 full page plates and decorations from drawings byCharles Livingston Bull.
These stones are exquisite in their refinement, and yet robust in theirappreciation of some of the rougher phases of woodcraft. "This is abook full of delight. An additional charm lies in Mr. Bull's faithfuland graphic illustrations, which in fashion all their own tell thestory of the wild life, illuminating and supplementing the pen picturesof the authors."--_Literary Digest._
RED FOX. The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds, andHis Triumphs over the Enemies of His Kind. With 50 illustrations,including frontispiece in color and cover design by Charles LivingstonBull.
A brilliant chapter in natural history. Infinitely more wholesomereading than the average tale of sport, since it gives a glimpse of thehunt from the point of view of the hunted. "True in substance butfascinating as fiction. It will interest old and young, city-bound andfree-footed, those who know animals and those who do not."--_ChicagoRecord-Herald._
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GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, New York