New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

good as far as they go but he here provides
suggestions FOR something between them and
the scientific zoology" adapted 10 the uses Of
the university student he says IN his preface:
Students OF the highest grammar school grades.
the high schools, normal schools. academies and
small colleges are so inadequately equipped for
the study OF natural history that fully % per
cent Of them. including also the great mass Of
students from the higher colleges and UNIVERSE
ties. enter active life ignorant Of even the most
important forms Of the wild life OF our own
country" Under the system OF study set forth
IN this book such ignorance may well give way
TO thoroughly grounded knowledge and 10 an
ardent and ever increasing Interest in the sub
ject- Il is a boon which parents and teachers
ought 10 appreciate. AS a lifelong student.
traveller IN the jungle and as the director Of our
great Geological Park, Nj Hornaday possesses
special aptitudes for such work and he has
lately had special facilities for it. We wish that
his injunctions 10 the protection Of the wild
birds might be placarded wherever there are
young fowIers and snarers. He exhorts these
readers not 70 make bird or egg collections;
not to think that In order 10 take an interes: in
birds il is necessary 10 buy gun and bushel
Of cartridges.
Don't think that badly made birdsktn in a smell
God man al the living bird would be
birds. named IN dead language; or that attic
room IS the best field for the study OF birds study
bird life not merely the mummed remains Of dead
Dlro enc nnaIiy con coe 5 *, me- leien
10 nseI1! lesson ne Ina1o,lss 81 mem nave ao
pursuit OF them Is interesting / grant bur the
BIRDS 40 not be narrow, Use the aeld glass the
camera and pencil. rather than the shotgan and
bird; hut it takes Intelligence and skill 10 photo
graph one.
Canaan E,.v,,sIa,,.s ,,leasant chronicle of Nav
time wanderings in Switzerland is worth read
ing II only for the joyous appreciation OF the
glory OF the hills which breathes through It.
His descriptions Of landscape and OF the noun
tain people are vfvid-no current volume gives
a better idea Of Alpine loveliness and Swiss
traits A particularly agreeable chapter. on the
other hand discusses the welcome revival in
Lucerne of the decorative ironwork and frescO-
work on the house fronts. which. as he reminds
US is likely 10 give US back the now sadly dis
rnsntlea Iucerne OF the Middle Ages. To one
man he tells US. this IS due-this and the preser-
walton of what remains OF the old Lueerne-
and the honored name Of this man. a learned
goldsmith. is Brossard. II is grievous 10 remem-
her that only in the last century were Hans
F4oIbein's quaint frescos stripped from the
Hertenstein hoasefront. but this worthy Bros
sard has made remarkably successful efforts TO
revive and continue the Holbein methods and
traditions His own house front is decorated
with Holben design originally made for
Swiss house, and now preserved in the Louvre.
One OF the modern frescos Of Lucerne. which
is the record OF joke. is painted on high be-
meath the caves Of the house OF printer II is
. picture Of seven cats trying 10 leap up with
caterwauling into the window or the house
hand is pouring jug OF water either upon
the cats or upon the peoples heads below" The
practical printer had remarked al carnival time
that the various guilds might better give
play 70 The town instead OF spending their time
icing eHl drinking Resenting this speech, the
guilds l.e: below mis- windows 10 give him in
cats music all the play he thought desirable.
He threw water on them from the window;
they broke into the house and smashed one Of