Evening journal., 1902-03-29
LIBRARY RRCRIVbN
VALUABLE GIFTS
OF Plates, Photographers and
Half Tones From Prom
inODt Publishers

Doubleday. Page & Co.. of New York,
have sent to the Wilmington Institute
Free Library a large number Of colored
plates. photographers and half tones
selected from their books and periodi-
calls.
All Of the bulletin boards at the IL
brarv are now covered with as many OF
these pictures as can be put mp. Among
them are several series OF plates prlhl-
ed In colOrs. showing the successive
Processes in color work pflh'lnb'
These pictures are selected from NeitJe
Blanchans Natures Gardens" ana the
same authors bird Neighbors, Mar
shalrs Mushroom Book" Holland s
butterfly Book" Howard's Insect
Book" and THE Alaska Book" Clhe
Hartman Alaska Expediuon), and
from Country Life.' periodical re-
Gently established by this firm.
Houghton, Mifain & Co, OF Boston,
has recently sent TO the library with
out charge. large quantity OF well
printed leaflets entitled Books About
Birds" This leaflet enumerates and
describes the books Of Olive Ihorne
Miller. Bradford Torrey, John Bur-
roughs. Frank Bolles. Florence Mer-
riam and others. These leaflets viii
he distributed freely to any readers In
terested in the subject.
CHM & Co. OF Boston. has recently
prepared a handsomely printed leailet
enumerating some of their out OF
Door Books, Spring and Summer 1902. T"
They have promised 20 furnish TO the
library a liberal supply in order that
they also may be distributed freely 70
readers. Included In this list are the
attractive hooks OF William J. Long
entitled. wilderness Ways" Secrets
of the Woods" etc. The library also
contains Seton -Thompson's beautiful
hook OF Bird Neighbors.' In fact the
library is as fast as possible securing
all the books on these lists not now In
tho library In order that Il may meet
the demands OF readers.
Among those not already referred tC
few in various classes may, however
be mentioned with profit. In The
realm OF plant life OF special Interest
are SchuylerMatthew' s Familiar Flow
ers of Field and Garden Mrs DanaI
How 10 Know the Wild Flowers,
According TO Season" and How L
Know the Ferns" and Mabel OegOoG
Wrghts Flowers and Ferns ant
Their Haunts." For trees the reader
should seek Harriet Keeler's Our Ma
tive Trees and Schuyler Matthews
Familiar Trees and Their Leaves.
In this connection attention shoul,
certainly be called to Alice Morsl
Earles "Old Time Gardens"
In the field OF animal life no NOR
beautiful books have ever been pub
lished than thase OF William Hamilton
Gibson. Ernest lngersOlrs "Wil
Neighbour" Friends Worth Know
ing. give interesting accounts of man
Of the smaller common wild animals
No list on this subject should fail q
mention Ernest Thompson
Wild Animals / Have Known" an,
rl4lves Of tho Hunted" Among bir,
books il ia difficult TO select a small
number from tho many excellent one
that have been published within tn
past few years. One of the finest is i
II. Herricks Home Life OF Wilt
Birds Among others may be mm
TONED Chapman's bird Life" Eek
storms The Woodpeckers' and Ma
bel Osgood Wrights Citizen Bird.
Attention is also called 10 Bird Lore,
the organ of the Audubon societle
and to another magazine for youthful
readers entitled Birds and Nature
Every number Of the latter is illus
trated with several colored plates
The past few years have seen tn
publication Of a number of books ol
the subject Of insects. J. II. Com
stocks Insect Life is a field hand
book for the nature study OF insects
Julian p. Ballards Moths and Butter
flies was published a number of year
ago. but is still one of the best in IL
Julia =. Billiards. Moths and Butter
files is a capital work and has man,
beautiful Illustrations. Among othe
books OF special merit are Noadham'
Out Door Studies and Margaret Nor
iey's The Bee People" Weeds "Te
New England Blossoms shows tn
close relation between insects an
some of the commoner flowers.
Every lover of nature is alread
familiar with OF should know the thre
following popular magazines: "Countr
Life before mentioned: Forest an
Stream and the well-known "Oui
ing"
The library is well-stocked wit
books devoted TO almost every phase q
nature particularly in It's more pOpula
aspects. AS is true in all department
OF the library readers are invited [
call upon the Librarians in charge 70
assistance in finding the books or az
ucles needed in their reading O
study.