Life — June 28, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Our Fresh Air Fund IFE renews his appeal for one hundred and fifty dollars for the purchase of a tent, As before stated, the price of a big tent, sixty feet long by thirty feet wide, is two hundred dollars, from which fifty is deducted by Mr. John 2, Mellugh, the manufacturer. It is sincerely hoped that some one of our readers may feel inclined to lend a hand, as the tent is an inexpressible luxury. Two hundred children on a rainy day become a serious problem, with only the house and stable to play in. It is then that the big tent becomes more than a luxury. It is an absolute necessity We feel sure, knowing our readers as we do, that among them are those who would give this tent, if they realized its utility and the pleasure it will afford to many hundreds of children Previously acknowledged............2. $1,105.29 Fair given by the girls of the Club of yood Hope, Brooklyn ; President, eretary, Ethel K. , Ethel M. Fox... Puritana, ateaasetaauneereeeeT First subscription of the Ninth Annual Westcuester Subscription In memory of I. A.M... Patsey . JN einen sgeees Mission Hand of the Asslum IIlll Con- gregutional Church, Hartford... In memory of H. B. B. Frances L, Wilson, Charles Peabody, AT LIFE'S FARM. STARTING OUT POR A WALK. The Latest Books. OO" Native Trees. By Harriet L. Keeler. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. Compiling a book on trees, nowadays, ts some thing lke making # dictionary, because so many aathoritles already exist that one has bat to glean the proper technical material from what has already been published, Something more, how- ver, Is required of one who makes a good tree ook —a personal love and familtarity with the subject—and Miss Keeler undoubtedly possesses this qualification. Her fleld ts limited to est of the Kockles. and north of the Southern States, but within this area her book 1 comprehensive, and well Indexed. Among its interesting features are the thterspersed quotations from many sources bearing on the tmmediate subjects. The Last Lady of Multerry. Wy Henry Wilton Thomas. New York: D, Appleton and Company. This “Story of Itallan New York * ts not only unconvincing, but It ts wholly lacking In Interest. You know It ever happened, and you wouldn't care if ithad. The filastrations, by the way, are th perfect keeping with the text. From Door to Door. By Bernard Capes. New York; Frederick A. Stokes Company. Mr. Capea uses words as a bold and skillful artist employs his pigments, laying them on, as It were, now with the brush, now with the thumb, and again with the palette knife, The results at times are superls. His poetic ‘appreciation of hature.on the one hand, and the breadth and strength of his character ‘sketches, on the other, confirm him as a writer of the highest order. The Immortal Garland. By Anna Robeson Brown, New York: D. Appleton and Company. A story of unusual strength The fact that tt does net end tn the orthodox rice and orange blossoms may disappolnt some, but that the Cranicters wre true to life rather ‘than to literary traditions should make full amends. ‘The ac- curate picture of Prof Scott will be recognized by any Columbla student of the middie elghiles and leads to conjectures us to bow many other characters tn the story may be taken from life. Babes in the Bush. By Rolt Boldrewood. New York : The Macmilian Company, An aristocratic Swiss Family Robinson, con- taining the history of an old Engtish family obliged by reverses to emigrate to Australia in the forties. In atyle the book approximates the Mterary habit of the tUmes of whieh It treats, hetng somewhat grundiloquent and decidedly long drawn out, The Green Faz, By Conan Doyle. New York : McClure, Phillips and Company. Mr. Doyle is here at hia best. Several of the stortes are old friends, but we meet them again with pleasure. WAlte Butterflies. By Kate Upson Clark, New York : J. P, Taylor and Company. A collection of incidents rather than of stories, Taken as iiterary ginger wafers they will make & Pleasant bite between meals Nature's Calendar. By Ernest Ingersoll, New York and London: Harper and Brothers, It 1s doubtful tf this book will arouse enthust- asm in the ambitious naturalist who ilves near New York. It is margined 0 that the owner tay record bis own observations at Ibe proper time, paralleled with what the author has to say. But ho true lever of Nature likes to have « Look spectally made for him to set down his thoughts, abont Nature In. His very temperament ts dead against this sort of thing. It is like keeping books and adding up columns of birds and animals Bird Studies With a Camera. Chapman. New Yor pany. To all amateur students of birds and of the camera this little volume will prove interesting. ‘Those who look to it for much technteal Informa tlon, bowever, will be disappolnted. It ts, Indeed, as the author says, only a bintas to what can be accomplished in this fleld, and in_no way com- ble to the work of the Keartons in England. We hope that {t may induce many others to ex: change the gun for the camera, By Frank M. D. Appleton aud Com- Fur the Queen in South Africa. Davis Haskins. Boston : Company. Appearing at this time, these stortes should find many Imereated readers, while escaping all flavor of partisanship by dealing with the Zuln and other former wars of England tn South Africa. ‘They are crisp. full of Ilfe and color and exceed: togiy well done By Cary Little, Brown and