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The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young

Chapter 51: Little Mitchell
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A practical guide for adults responsible for children's education that argues every person should be informed about the origin and renewal of life, advising who should tell these facts and when. It recommends truthful, age-appropriate explanation and uses nature study as the primary vehicle: observing flowers, pollination, seed development, and animal life to illustrate reproduction. Separate chapters present the development of seeds, fertilization, and life histories of fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals, while discussing vigilance and transformation. The emphasis is on clear explanation, imaginative connection through common names and stories from nature, and scientific accuracy suited to young learners.

LIST OF BOOKS HELPFUL IN STUDYING PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE


BIBLIOGRAPHY

I

BOOKS HELPFUL IN STUDYING PLANT LIFE

Andrews, Jane:
    Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children$0.50
Bailey, L. H.:
    Plant Breeding0.75
Bass, Florence:
    Plant Life. Nature Stories for Young Readers0.25
Dana, Mrs. William Starr (Frances T. Parsons):
    How to Know the Wild Flowers2.00
Going, Maud:
    Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers. Untechnical
    Studies for Unlearned Lovers of Nature1.50
    With the Wild Flowers, from Pussy Willow to
    Thistledown1.00
    With the Trees1.00
Gray, Asa:
    School and Field Book of Botany1.80
Huntington, Annie Oakes:
    Studies of Trees in Winter2.50
Keeler, Harriet L.:
    Our Native Trees and How to Identify them2.00
Laing, Mary E.:
    The Life of a Bean. For little children0.15
Lounsberry, Alice:
    A Guide to the Trees1.75
Lubbock, Sir John:
    Flowers, Fruits, and Leaves. Treats of fertilization
    of flowers, seed dispersal, leaves, stinging
    hairs, etc.0.75
Morley, Margaret W.:
    Seed Babies. For young children, showing how
    plants come from seeds0.25
    Little Wanderers. For children, on the methods
    of seed dispersal0.30
    Flowers and Their Friends. Stories of plants and
    how they do their work of living0.50
    A Few Familiar Flowers. A book of methods for
    teaching beginning botany0.75
Newell, Jane H.:
    Reader in Botany.
    Part I. From Seed to Leaf0.60
    Part II. From Flower to Fruit0.60
Parsons, Frances Theodora (Mrs. W. S. Dana):
    According to Season. Talks about the flowers in
    the order of their appearance in the woods and
    fields1.75
Rogers, Julia Ellen:
    The Tree Book. North American trees, uses, and
    culture3.00
Roth, Filibert:
    First Book of Forestry1.25
Spear, Mary A.:
    Leaves and Flowers. Botany for young learners,
    giving the principal botanical terms0.25
Weed, Clarence M.:
    Seed Travellers. On seed dispersal; for older
    children0.25

II

BOOKS HELPFUL IN STUDYING ANIMAL LIFE

American Humane Education Society:
    Publications, and "Our Dumb Animals," a magazine
    Per year$0.50
Bass, Florence:
    Animal Life. Nature Stories for Young Readers0.35
Bateman, Rev. Gregory C.:
    Fresh Water Aquaria1.40
Burroughs, John:
    Locusts and Wild Honey1.25
    Signs and Seasons1.25
    Wake Robin1.25
    Ways of Nature1.50
Chapman, Frank M.:
    Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America3.00
Comstock, Anna Botsford:
    Ways of the Six-Footed. Stories of Insect Life0.40
Comstock, John Henry:
    Insect Life1.75
Dixon, Charles:
    Birds' Nests1.20
Eddy, Sarah J.:
    Friends and Helpers0.60
Howard, Leland O.:
    The Insect Book3.00
Hulbert, W. D.:
    Forest Neighbors. Life Stories of Wild Animals1.50
Jackson, Gabrielle E.:
    The Adventures of Tommy Postoffice. The True
    Story of a Cat0.75
Jackson, Helen Hunt:
    Cat Stories2.00
Job, Herbert K.:
    Wild Wings. Adventures of a Camera Hunter
    among the larger Wild Birds of North America
    over Sea and Land3.00
Jordan, David Starr (Editor):
    True Tales of Birds and Beasts0.40
Keyser, Leander S.:
    Birds of the Rockies1.50
Long, William J.:
    Ways of the Wood Folk0.50
    Wilderness Ways0.45
    Secrets of the Woods0.50
    Wood Folk at School0.50
    A Little Brother to the Bear, and Other Animal
    Stories1.50
Mathews, F. Schuyler:
    Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music2.00
    Familiar Life in Field and Forest. The Animals,
    Birds, Frogs, and Salamanders1.75
Miller, Mary Rogers:
    The Brook Book1.35
Morley, Margaret W.:
    Butterflies and Bees0.60
    The Insect Folk0.45
    A Song of Life1.25
    Life and Love1.25
    The Bee People1.25
    The Honey-Makers1.25
    Little Mitchell. The Story of a Squirrel1.25
    Our Four-Footed Friends. A Monthly Magazine.
    Per year0.50
Patterson, Alice Jean:
    The Spinner Family. About Spiders1.00
Repplier, Agnes:
    The Fireside Sphinx. A Book about Cats for Older
    Readers2.00
Seton, Ernest Thompson:
    Animal Heroes2.00
    The Biography of a Grizzly1.50
    Lives of the Hunted1.75
    The Trail of the Sandhill Stag1.50
    Wild Animals I Have Known2.00
Weed, Clarence M.:
    Stories of Insect Life
    Spring and Summer. First Series0.25
    Autumn. Second Series0.30
Wheelock, Irene Grosvenor:
    Nestlings of Forest and Marsh1.00
Winslow, Helen M.:
    Concerning Cats. Stories of Historical and Other
    Cats1.50
Wood, Rev. Theodore:
    A Natural History of Birds, Fishes, etc.1.25
Wright, Julia McNair:
    Seaside and Wayside. School reading books. 4 vols.
    Vol. I.0.25
    Vol. II.0.35
    Vol. III.0.45
    Vol. IV.0.60

III

MISCELLANEOUS

Ellis, Havelock:
    Man and Woman. For those interested in the philosophical
    and scientific side of the subject. In
    the Contemporary Science Series$1.50
Geddes and Thompson:
    The Evolution of Sex. Contemporary Science
    Series1.50
Hall, G. Stanley:
    Adolescence. Two volumes7.50
Layard, Rev. E. B.:
    Religion in Boyhood. Chapter on How to Form
    Character. This book has an Introduction
    by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, head master of
    Groton School, Groton, Mass.0.75
Lyttleton, Rev. the Hon. E.:
    Mothers and Sons1.00
    Training of the Young in Laws of Sex1.00
Stall, Sylvanus, D.D.:
    What a Young Boy Ought to Know1.00
    What a Young Man Ought to Know1.00
    What a Young Husband Ought to Know1.00
    What a Man of Forty-five Ought to Know1.00
Wood-Allen, Dr. Mary:
    What a Young Girl Ought to Know1.00
    What a Young Woman Ought to Know1.00
    What a Young Wife Ought to Know1.00
    Almost a Man0.50
    Almost a Woman0.50


BY MISS MORLEY

The Bee People

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

Price $1.25

It is the story, told in most fascinating style, of the honey bee, how it is born, how it lives, how it gathers honey, and all about it, not omitting its sting. The bee is credited with powers of reasoning, and the troubles of the queen bee in retaining her throne are set forth in a delightfully fairy-story-like way which will win every child that reads it.—The Times, Philadelphia.

Probably no branch of natural history is more interesting than the bee people, and when told by an appreciative student is doubly so. Miss Morley carries out the human idea suggested in the title; and the worker, the drone, the queen, and all the inmates of a hive are given a life-like personality. Many illustrations aid in telling the story, and many wonderful things concerning the habits of these little people are constantly revealed.—The Detroit News Tribune.


The Honey Makers

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

Price $1.25

Unlike Miss Morley's other works, this book is intended for older readers. The first part of the book is devoted to the scientific exposition of the bee's structure, habits, etc., and it is surprising how much interest and humor the author has managed to infuse into the subject. The second part performs an original and valuable service to literature. To the bees more than to any other portion of the animal kingdom has attention been devoted by poets and thinkers seeking inspiration, and from this wealth of allusion and anecdote Miss Morley has culled the choicest and most striking parts.


A Song of Life

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR AND ROBERT FORSYTH

Price $1.25

With simple, beautiful phrases, with pure and admiring words to describe the process of life, and with scores of gracefully outlined forms of plant and bird and beast by a helpful artist, has this song of life been sung and illustrated to delight and instruct in the happiest way many a wondering child concerning the mystery of life.—The Churchman, New York.

The plan of the work is novel, and the narrative is accurate and interesting to an unusual degree. Few writers on life's history give so much of it in a space so limited.—The Nation, New York.


Life and Love

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

Price $1.25

Margaret Warner Morley has written in "Life and Love" a book which should be placed in the hands of every young man and woman. It is a fearless yet clean-minded study of the development of life and the relations thereof from the protoplasm to mankind. The work is logical, instructive, impressive. It should result in the innocence of knowledge, which is better than the innocence of ignorance. It is a pleasure to see a woman handling so delicate a topic so well. Miss Morley deserves thanks for doing it so impeccably. Even a prude can find nothing to carp at in the valuable little volume.—Boston Journal.

It is an agreeable and useful little volume, explanatory of the mysteries of plant and animal life,—such a book as parents will do well to place in the hands of thoughtful, or, better still, of thoughtless children.—Philadelphia Press.


Little Mitchell

THE STORY OF A MOUNTAIN SQUIRREL

ILLUSTRATED BY BRUCE HORSFALL

Price $1.25

Miss Morley's own words give the best idea of this most engaging little book:

"Baby Mitchell was an August squirrel. That is, he was born in the month of August. His pretty gray mother found a nice hole, high up in the crotch of a tall chestnut tree, for her babies' nest; and I know that she lined it with soft fur plucked from her own loving little breast,—for that is the way the squirrel mothers do.

"This chestnut tree grew on the side of a steep mountain,—none other than Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain peak in all the eastern half of the United States. It is in North Carolina, where there are a great many beautiful mountains, but none of them more beautiful than Mount Mitchell, with the great forest trees on its slopes."

A. C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A great deal of confusion exists in many minds as to the origin of pollen and ovule. There seems to be a general and almost ineradicable impression that fertilization has something to do in creating the ovule. This is not so. The ovule is a part of every ovary just as the pollen is a part of every anther. Each will be produced whether they ever come together or not; only if they do not come together, both perish, while if they do, development of the ovule continues.