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(1) MRS.BRIGHTWEN was one of the pioneers in the art of making young people acquainted in a pleasant way with the plants and animals round about them, and we wish to express our opinion that the mood and method of much of the “Nature-Study” which has been hurriedly set a-going in schools to-day is right or wrong just as it agrees or differs from what we find in the simple and homely studies by the author of “Wild Nature Won by Kindness.” We say this very deliberately, although, to tell the truth, there is not much in the particular book before us, which must be treated tenderly, as its title suggests, and for the sake of what has gone before. But even here we find some of the qualities which distinguish sound nature-study—fidelity to observed fact, appreciation of the wonder and beauty of common things, and insistence on interpretation rather than information. The book shows how problems of a simple sort may be solved in simple ways, given patience and a window-sill.
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T., J. Hints for Nature-Study 1 . Nature 80, 129–130 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080129a0
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