eys. A very complete book for general use,
treating all the birds of the section named, with some account of
habits, etc. It has introductory chapters on Ornithology, Methods
of Study, List of Dates of Spring and Fall migration, and a color
chart to help in identification.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.

DITMARS, R.L.
The Reptile Book.
Doubleday. 4.00

Mr. Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles in the New York Zooelogical Park,
gives us a comprehensive treatise on the structure and habits of the
turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes, of the United
States and Northern Mexico. There are eight pages of plates in color
and one hundred and twenty-eight in black and white, from (p. 219)
photographs from life, taken (with six exceptions) by the Author.

In the present work the writer has sought to compile a popular
review of a great fauna--the Reptiles of North America. He has
excluded technical phraseology and tried to produce two results:
1. A popular book, that may be comprehended by the beginner and,
2. A book valuable in its details to the technical
worker.--_Preface._

GIBSON, W.H.
Sharp Eyes.
Harper. 2.50

This rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds, and
flowers, is made attractive to young children by the unusual quality
of the many illustrations.

GREENE, HOMER.
Coal and the Coal Mines.
Houghton. .75

It has been the aim of the author to give reliable information
free from minute details and technicalities. That information has
been, for the most part, gathered through personal experience in
the mines.--_Preface._

The composition and formation of coal, its discovery and introduction,
are dealt with, and a description of the mine and its dangers, and the
life of the workers therein, is given in this thoroughly satisfactory
little volume.

HARRINGTON, M.W.
About the Weather.
Appleton. .65

Treated from a broad scientific standpoint, much interesting (p. 220)
information is conveyed about the laws which, discovered comparatively
recently, have proved of vital importance and utility to mankind. The
humidity and pressure of the air, the velocity of the wind, rain and
snow, sleet and hail-storms, tornadoes and cyclones, are among the
many topic