The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-08
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The Bird Book, Chester G. Reed.
Gives descriptions of res birds with
their size, range and habits. The Latin
as well as the common names are Civ
en-, also descriptions of the eggs and
nests. The book is very fully illustrat
ed with photographs, colored plates
and drawings, and full index adds to
its value. Bird students will find this
one of the best of the recently publish
ed books on bird life.
The New International Year Book for
1914, F. NJ. Colby.
| This year book is designed as an
Encyclopedia of the year, and gives in
addition to the information available
| in other annual year books information
in these departments: Biography, Agri-
culture, Political History of the United
States and Foreign Countries, Societies
and Religious bodies. Owing to the
great war, the statistical information
regarding trade and industry is much
less detailed. The account of the great
war is written by Prof. C. Haynes and
lis brought down to the end of the
Iyear (1914) and is supplemented by
PARTICLES on Military Progress, Naval
Progress, Battleships, Submarines,
IAeronautics and the various historical
PARTICLES on the nations engaged. Under
the United States some of the princi-
Ipal points discussed are the Canal
Tolls, Ship Purchase, Trade Commits
sion Bills, the esd Congress and the re-
lations of the United States govern
ment as affected by the great war. =
Adapted from the preface.)
Principles of Fruit Growing (Rural
Science Series), Liberty II. Bailey.
/ The old edition of this standard work
has been completely rewritten and re-
[vised, and includes all the latest in
formation on fruit growing. VIII be
useful to the farmer who grows his
Iproduct primarily for home use and al
! so for the farmer who produces for the
: open market.
With the Men Who Do Things, A. r
Bond.
Two boys 90 to New York to spend
| their vacation, they see sky-scraper:
5 built, under ground foundations laid
tunnels dug through under water, and
the wonderful and complicated
! housekeeping of great city car
ried on.
Pick, Shovel and Pluck, A. r. Bond.
A sequel to With the Men Who DE-
Things, which takes the boys from
New York city out into the world
showing them the Kenkuk dam, Pana
t ma canal and other great engineering
< feats which in their inception call fol
imagination and in their doing cal
3 for perseverance, skill and courage.
Children of the Dead End the autobi
. ography of a navy, Patrick Mac
Gill
5 The author of this book began to d.
a a man s work at ten and until he wa
:. over 20, he did the hardest of unskill
Il ed labor, digging, ditching, and rail
!, $ way track-laying. 1t is surprising tina
\ his grinding toll did not brutalize hin
land dull his power to understand tn
: life about him; that it did not crusl
q his viii and purpose to write IL
Ipaints for us the floating population o
a big labor camp and gives it an ar
= ltlculate voice. The Bookman s esti
y mate of him is this: "a Kipling witt
u a far deeper outlook on life, a Kiplinj
with IAN understanding of humanit.
a and love for it that comes nearer t
4 Walt Whitman.
n The Valley of Fear, Sir A. c. Doyle
new Sherlock Holmes story i
is which the mystery to be solved is tn
D. murder committed in an old Englis
a house. The scenes change from Eng
% land to an anarchistic community j
Ie America where a murder syndicat
fourishes. Sherlock Holmes and hi
friend, DR.. Watson, do not quite solV
the mystery and the story closes wit
= the hint that Moriarity may be E'down
? ed = later.
: The Turmoil, Booth Harrington.
= The story shows the result of bi
= business success in the Middle Yves
I, and has for its hero the only son i
Il an extremely wealthy family. Hi
gifts of mind and heart would vii
him distinction in any work he nigh
S choose to do; but he is thought to b
x a weakling and is treated with con
; tempt until he proves his worth an,
n the proving wins happiness.