1902 The Brook Book Its Inhabitants Through the Changing Year First Edition EXC

Description: The Brook Book: A First Acquaintance With the Brook and Its Inhabitants Through the Changing Year. By Mary Rogers Miller, Lecturer on Nature Study at Cornell University. Illustrated. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. 1902. 8.5" x 6.25". 241 pp including index. A beautiful and very charming nature book that's a visual treat with numerous wonderful line drawings and half-tone illustrations (black & white photographs). A 1902 reviewer in the Journal of Education wrote: "Artistically The Brook Book is beautiful. The full-page plates are exquisite, and the illustrations in the text are nature-perfect. Here are combined in delicate proportions the student's affection, the teacher's art, and the book-maker's skill." The book is a lovely read that can be enjoyed by the young and old, the layperson or scientist. A 2019 article in the Bulletin of the Botanical Society of America noted that the book "has an appeal to the botanist, entomologist, and naturalist alike as the chapters alternately weave each discipline in concert with each other. The symbiotic relationship of plant, insect, and animal in this slim volume is a treasure." A 1902 reviewer wrote "To the lover of nature, and especially to imaginative children, this will prove a work of real charm. In following the winding features of the brook and all its companionable accessories, much nature lore of other kinds is introduced. Flower life, insect life, brook life and the habits of its denizens, the changeful charms of the alternate seasons- all are touched upon." Chapters include: Beech Woods in May; A Living Carpet; Slough Creek and Meadow Brook; The Alder Fringe; An Insect Law-Breaker; Concerning Dragons and Damsels; May-Flies in Fall Brook; Web-Spinner at Work; The Triangle Spider; Water-Scorpion and Giant Water-Bug; How Insects Breathe; A Home In a Willow Tree; The Hermit Thrush; A Winter Walk; Skunk Cabbage; A Rainy Day...and more Book will be carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

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