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Jungle night

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A series of lyrical field essays that record moonlit journeys into tropical forests, blending precise natural-history observation with personal reflection. The narrator tracks nocturnal animals, describes behaviors and sounds, and notes the altered appearance of the jungle under moonlight; encounters with a skillful indigenous hunter provide human context and ethical observation of local life. Vivid sensory detail and modest scientific explanation portray species, habitat interactions, and the quiet drama of night, while reflections on companionship, adaptation, and the transformative power of light shape the narrative voice.

ATLANTIC READINGS

Teachers everywhere are cordially welcoming our series of Atlantic Readings; for material not otherwise available is here published for classroom use in convenient and inexpensive form. In most cases the selections reprinted have been suggested by teachers in schools and colleges where a need for a particular essay or story has been urgently felt. Supplied for one institution, the reprint has created an immediate market elsewhere.

The Atlantic Monthly Press most warmly invites conference and correspondence that will suggest additions to this growing list. It is of course apparent from the titles below that the material is chosen only in part from the files of the Atlantic Monthly.

The titles already published follow:—

  •  1. THE LIE
  • By Mary Antin
  •  2. RUGGS—R.O.T.C.
  • By William Addleman Ganoe
  •  3. JUNGLE NIGHT
  • By William Beebe
  •  4. AN ENGLISHWOMAN’S MESSAGE
  • By Mrs. A. Burnett-Smith
  •  5. A FATHER TO HIS FRESHMAN SON
  •  A FATHER TO HIS GRADUATE GIRL
  • By Edward Sanford Martin
  •  6. A PORT SAID MISCELLANY
  • By William McFee
  •  7. EDUCATION: The Mastery of the Arts of Life
  • By Arthur E. Morgan
  •  8. INTENSIVE LIVING
  • By Cornelia A. P. Comer
  •  9. THE PRELIMINARIES
  • By Cornelia A. P. Comer
  • 10. THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF WAR
  • By William James
  • 11. THE STUDY OF POETRY
  • By Matthew Arnold
  • 12. BOOKS
  • By Arthur C. Benson
  • 13. ON COMPOSITION
  • By Lafcadio Hearn
  • 14. THE BASIC PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY
  • By Walter Lippmann
  • 15. THE PILGRIMS OF PLYMOUTH
  • By Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Other titles to follow

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