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MRS. BRIGHTWEN'S books no longer need to be recommended to beginners in natural history. A fresh collection of her simple and sympathetic accounts of animal and vegetable life as studied and enjoyed in her own garden and park is sure to be welcome to all boys and girls who have once begun to take an intelligent interest in natural objects. All we need say about this volume is that, besides some pleasant papers about her tamed wild animals, including squirrels, field-voles, a rook, and even a stag-beetle, which followed his benefactor across the lawn, it contains others on the trees in her garden and some of the plants in her conservatory, all well calculated to arouse just such an interest in common things as may carry the young reader on to more exact and elaborate studies of nature. The book is charmingly illustrated by photographs and drawings.
Quiet Hours with Nature.
By Mrs. Brightwen. Pp. xvi + 271. (London: Fisher Unwin, 1904.) Price 2s.
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Quiet Hours with Nature . Nature 73, 4 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073004a0
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