Abstract
THE highest merit in any book of natural history is that it contains new and valuable information. Such books are often, but by no means inevitably, dry. Mr. A. R. Wallace may be named as one living writer who gives us new and valuable matter in a thoroughly readable form. Without being absolutely original, a book may yet be well worth writing if it contains a good deal of useful information served up in an attractive way. Then we come to the books which are attractive but not useful, and so to the books which are neither one nor the other.
A Year in the Fields.
Selections from the writings of John Burroughs. With illustrations from photographs by Clifton Johnson. Pp. ix + 220. (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1896.)
A-Birding on a Brenco.
By Florence A. Merriam. Illustrated. Pp. x + 226. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1896.)
Summer Days for Winter Evenings.
By J. H. Crawford Illustrations by John Williamson. Pp. ix + 274. (London: John Macqueen, 1896.)
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M., L. A Year in the Fields A-Birding on a Brenco Summer Days for Winter Evenings. Nature 55, 387–388 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055387a0
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