trait and Biographical
Sketch. Paper, 15 cents, _net_; cloth, 25 cents, _net_.

SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES, WILD APPLES, AND SOUNDS. By Henry David
Thoreau. (Riverside Literature Series, No. 27.) With a Biographical
Sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Paper, 15 cents, _net_.

BIRDS THROUGH AN OPERA GLASS. By Florence A. Merriam. (Riverside Library
for Young People, No. 3.) With Hints to Observers and an Appendix,
Bibliography, and Index. With many Illustrations. 16mo, 75 cents.

THE WOODPECKERS. By Mrs. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. With five full-page
colored plates and many text illustrations. Square 12mo, $1.00.

A lively, yet accurate and orderly account of the woodpecker family,
treating somewhat exhaustively of five of the commonest species, and
less fully of the others. The book is in a form quite certain to
interest young people, and very likely to lead them to further
observation and investigation. Fully illustrated with five colored
pictures by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the leading American bird artist, and
with cuts and diagrams in the text.

CORN PLANTS: THEIR USES AND WAYS OF LIFE. By Frederick Leroy Sargent,
formerly Instructor in Botany in the University of Wisconsin. In compact
form and in readable style the author gives a clear account of the six
important grain plants of the world,--wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice,
and maize. 12mo, 75 cents.

EVERY-DAY BUTTERFLIES. By Samuel H. Scudder. This book is written for
popular reading. It includes familiar accounts of sixty or more of the
commonest butterflies taken in the order of the season. With numerous
Illustrations, including 8 full-page colored plates. Crown 8vo, $2.00.

_A catalogue giving lists of books by Florence A. Merriam, Olive Thorne
Miller, John Burroughs, Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Frank
Bolles, and many other authors suitable for use in the study of Nature,
will be sent on application._

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.

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| Transcriber's note: |
| |
| Inconsistent hyphenations (cornfield/corn-field, |
| henroost/hen-roost, outbuildings/out-buildings, |
| runways/run-ways, sidehill/side-hill, snakelike/snake-like) have |
| been reta