Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
OUTDOOR BOOKS

book which will appeal to thousands
of dwelIers in city suburbs or in country
towns, and which will interest all who
love landscape beauty, is little book
called "Garden-making," by L. H.
Bailey in conjunction with Prof. L. r.
Taft of the Agricultural College of
Michigan, Prof +. A Waugh of the
University Of Vermont and Ernest Wal
ker Of Clemson College, South Carolina.
1t is something more than a volume Of
suggestions for the utilizing Of home
grounds" 1t is, in fact, a manual of a
practical character, giving the princi-
pies of garden-making and the arts Of
making limited areas both useful and
pleasing to the eye After an opening
chapter of general advice, there are
chapters on the plan of the place to be
treated, planting the ornamental
grounds, the fruit plantations,
the vegetable garden. seasonal re-
nninders. Included are remarks on
plants for floral effects, advice upon the
growing Of fruit and vegetables calen-
dars for the north and for the south.
The illustrations are profuse and edu-
cational in character and there is an
index. Features such as kitchen gar
den planting table, plan for a fruit gar
den, etc, are found. In short, it is a
publication which may be highly COM
mended. Published by the Macmillan
Co., New York.
Birds of Village and Field is the
title of beautifully printed and illus
trated book of ornithology for begin
ners, by Florence A. Merriam. The
author points out that the difficulty is
not in finding birds which are numerous
in villages and cities as well as in the
fields, but of knowing their names when
they are found, TO meet just this diff
Guilty for the beginner, and to prevent
unnecessary shooting of birds by young
ornithologists, she employs only neces-
sary statistics, giving untechnical des-
criptions and illustrated keys biased on
such colors and markings as any one
can note in the field" Then there are
suggestions on how to observe in the
field The author acknowledges help
from a number Of friends in the prepar-
alton of the keys for this book; also help
from other sources on technical mat
ters. The pictures of birds are from
drawings by Ernest S. Thompson, Louis
A. Fuentes and John L. Ridgeway; and
there is a profusion Of other good illus
trations from various excellent sources.
Aside from the Introduction and ap-
pendix, both Of which contain much use
full information, the contents of the
book consists of treatiSes ON scores of
1t will please all bird-lovers. Published
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston For
sale by Putnam, Davis & Co.
BOOK NOTES.
f. w. Hornung, who is considered by
some the Bret Harte Of Australia, has
written a new story, entitled Young
Blood" It will be published by Charles
Scribners Sons. on Feb 26.
"My Life in Two Hemispheres' is the
title of the memoirs Of Sir Charles
shortly in two volumes, with portraits,
by the Macmillan Company.
NJ. Zola's paris" translated by
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, will be pub
lished on March l. simultaneously in
New York, Paris, London and Toronto,
by the Macmillan Company.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford will
bring out small volume this spring
| with Herbert s. Stone & Co. of Chicago.
Story"
Mr.. whighan's long expected volume
on "How to Play Golf is now ready.
|
"The Orderly Book of George Wash
! ington." commander-in-chief of the
! American armies, as it was kept by the
| illustTious man at Valley Forge, be-
tween May IS and June II, 177S, has ap-
peared as a bound volume published by
Lamson, Wolfe & Co. Of Boston. APP
pleton P. c. Griffin has edited this in
| teresting historical relic from the origi-
nal preserved in the Boston Athenaeum.
| Most of the orders given are in the
! handwriting Of Maj. Samuel Shaw. 1t
! appears that while the war department
at Washington possesses several of
Washington's orderly books, it has none
| covering the period Of the present vol
| ume.
Hon Perry Belmont recently wrote
| for the Brooklyn Citizen a series of
seven articles on the currency question.
These articles interesting but somewhat
partisan in character, have been gath
cred into volume entitled Republican
! Possibility for Present Currency Perils,"