Our Humble Helpers: Familiar Talks on the Domestic Animals

By T. Morris Longstreth

This is a guide to New York State’s great natural park, the story of two jolly companions on a fascinating journey, and an informal history, told in the most engaging style, of the romantic region from the days when the Indians had possession of it down to to-day, when the State Commission is doing its splendid work for its preservation.

The ground covered by the author, who gives his facts while he tells the story of his own and a friend’s wanderings through the Adirondacks, covers a section of woodland wilderness larger than Connecticut, girdled and laced with over a thousand lakes, shouldered into the skies by hundreds of mountains. The forest is swarming with deer and the waters with fish. There are sections in the Adirondacks where one may go for miles without meeting another human being; and there are clubs and hotels offering all the luxuries of the most sophisticated city. Whatever the Adirondacks section is and has been the author manages to tell in his narrative.

There is, for instance, an account of the early settlement there of Napoleon’s brother, of the different tribes of Indians and their warfare, of Trudeau, Stevenson, Dewey, Warner, and others whose names are associated with the region, and of the present-day work of the State’s Conservation Commission. There is information as to how to travel, what to expect in various localities, as to roads, hotels, etc., etc.

32 full-page illustrations and maps

Price $2.50

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By Jean Henri Fabre

Translated from the Nineteenth French Edition by Florence Constable Bicknell

A book of popular science, about the metals under the earth, the plants and animals on the surface, and the planets in the heavens above, told in story-form by the most gifted nature writer the world has known in a hundred years. It is a book especially for young people of from ten to sixteen years; it is a fascinating and accurate account in crystal-clear language for grown-ups with hearts still young enough to permit them to be interested in the great living but inarticulate world around them.

Maeterlinck has called Fabre “the insects’ Homer.” In France his popularising hand-books have gone into many editions. Of recent years, too, the entire world that reads has bestirred itself to do honor to the eminent scientist who studied the nature world with the zeal of a medieval monk, whose background of scholarship and innate chivalry and good humor always made itself felt in his writing, and who expressed himself with the simplicity and fire of a poet.

The Century Co. counts itself fortunate in being able to offer this French classic in this admirable translation.

“It should prove an invaluable book for growing children.… It makes scientific facts little known common property for all, and is withal a deeply interesting, charming exposition of natural truths.”—The Literary Digest.

Illustrated. Price $2.00