Book News and Reviews 199 the A. O. U. Committee on Protection of N. A. Birds, Witmer Stone ; An account of the Nesting of Franklin's Gull [Larus franklinii) in Southern Minnesota, illus- trated by lantern slides, Thos. S. Roberts ; Bird Studies with a Camera, illustrated by lantern slides, Frank M. Chapman ; Home Life of some Birds, illustrated by lantern slides, Wm. Dutcher ; Slides — series of Kingfisher, Gulls, etc., Wm. L. Baily ; The Effects of Wear upon Feathers, illus- trated by lantern slides, Jonathan Dwight, Jr.; Exhibition of lantern slides of Birds, Birds' Nests and Nesting Haunts, from Na- ture, members ; Language of the Birds, Nelson R. Wood ; A New Wren from Alaska, Harry C. Oberholser ; The Molt of the Flight-feathers in various Orders of Birds, Witmer Stone ; Some Cuban Birds, Jno. W. Daniels, Jr.; On the Orientation of Birds, Capt. Gabriel Reynaud, French army ; On the Habits of the Hoatzin [OpislJiocomiis ci-i'sfatus) , George K. Cherrie.
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ilooft J^eto0 ant) 3^et)ietog A Dictionary of Birds. By Alfred Newton, assisted by Hans Gadow, and others. Cheap issue, unabridged. Lon- don, Adam and Charles Black, 1893-96. [New York, The Macmillan Co.] 8vo, pp. xii-|-i,o88, numerous line cuts. Price, $5. Bird students should be grateful to the publishers of this invaluable valuable work for issuing it in an edition which places it within the reach of all. It is not necessary for us to add our meed of praise to what is universally con- ceded to be "the best book ever written about birds." To those of Bird-Lore's readers who have not had the fortune to examine this or the preceding edition, we may say that the work is based on Pro- fessor Newton's article ' Birds' in the En- cyclopaedia Britanica which, with the co- operation of eminent specialists, has been enlarged and augmented to make an orni- thological dictionary of over 1,000 pages: an indispensable work of reference to every student of ornithology who will find in its pages an immense amount of infor- mation not elsewhere obtainable. — F. M. C. Wabeno, The .Magician. The Sequel to Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts, by Mabel OsGood Wright. Illustrated by Joseph M. Gleeson. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1S99. Price, $1.50. This pretty green and gold covered book, with its mystical sign of three interlaced hearts, will be a treasure to the army of little folks who have so enjoyed its prede- cessor ' Tommy-Anne.' Not only will they meet in its pages the delightful Tommy- Anne herself, but several other old friends, Obi, the almost too-human Waddles, the unfortunate Horned Owl, and others. In this volume Anne — having dropped the Tommy from her name, pushes her "whys" into the several kingdoms of earth and air. She interviews the " Man in the Moon," learns the story of the red man from a talkative Indian arrow head, and the secrets of the hive from a friendly honey-bee. Through her magic spectacles life at the bottom of the sea becomes visi- ble, and the past history of the earth comes to light. It may readily be seen that the author has not forgotten her own childish "wonderments," and is therefore eminently fitted to satisfy those of children today, and although the imagination has full play in the manner of conveying it — the "how" — the information given is trustworthy. The book, with all its charm of fantasy may be put into the hands of children with the assurance that it will let them into the secrets of many interest- ing things in Nature, and leave no sting of false statements to be corrected as the years pass on. The book, as usual with the publications of the house of Macmillan, is fully illus- trated, beautifully printed and altogether a pleasure to look at and handle. — Olive Thorne Miller.
