"The illustrations call for almost unqualified praise.... It is, perhaps, not too much to say that these are the best small illustrations of our mammals ever brought together in a single volume."--_The Nation._
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We do not describe these books, but we will send you any of them, _postpaid_, "on approval." After examining them at your leisure you can either send us the price, if you wish to retain the volumes, or return them to us, if for any reason they are not satisfactory.
_Photographing Birds and Butterflies in Colors_
Color photography has surely come to stay. We have published three volumes illustrated in this manner, and the pictures will probably surprise you unless you have kept up with such matters very closely. They are photographed direct from the birds and butterflies, and only three colors are used in printing; yet the results are generally _absolutely accurate_ renderings of the original hues. Their price is about one-twentieth of what such books could have been bought for a few years ago.
"The Butterfly Book," by Dr. W. J. Holland (already in its second edition), has, besides hundreds of text illustrations, 48 colored plates, which show over a thousand species of American butterflies, with all their native beauty and brilliance of coloring. It tells everything about butterflies, and tells it in a way anybody can understand. The price is $3 net.
Neltje Blanchan's "Birds that Hunt and are Hunted" (10th thousand) gives the life-histories of 173 of our game and water birds and birds of prey. You can actually see the iridescent sheen on the neck of the wild pigeon that serves as a frontispiece, and the other 47 plates are equally remarkable. Quite as remarkable also is the price: $2.
"Bird Neighbors," by the same author, has 52 colored plates, and describes 150 of the song birds and other more common feathered neighbors. With the aid of these life-like plates there can be not the least doubt as to the identification of a bird. It is almost a sufficient commentary on the volume that we have had to print 20,000 copies in the year since it appeared. It costs $2.
