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Show BOOK OF NATURE. By Johnny Jones; Spelling by His Mother; profusely illustrated. San Francisco, Paul Elder & Co. Price, 25 cents net. Every one who loves the beautiful poem that begins; "A little green peach in an orchard grew, Listen to my tale of woe," will recall with a thrill of wonder and admiration the reckless daring of its hero, Johnny Jones, who boldly invaded the orchard, atfd in the interest of science, staked his peace of mind to test the questionable ques-tionable delights of the adolescent fruit. This was Mr. Jones' first essay in nature study. Turning his attention to a field of effort more suited to his talents, the author has given as illustrations il-lustrations of his new work on zoology, exact reproductions re-productions of birds, bugs and beetles several lines of verse to each, his mother assisting him as to spelling. The lines on mosquitoes aro especially es-pecially feeling: "Mosquitoes drive you almost mad, They come around at night, And when you're not asleey they buzz, And when you are they bite." The penetrating observation shown in this quatrain, intuitively seizing upon the most dominant domi-nant and essential trait of the creature under analysis an-alysis is equally apparent in the remainder of the studies. The ilea, the cow, the elephant; dogs, monkeys and jelly fish; in fact some thirty in all, aro vividly dissected for the edification of young and old. It is pleasing to note, however, that notwithstanding the intensity of his scientific research, re-search, Johnny Jones has still retained the poetry poe-try of his nature uncorroded, as instanced in his touching quatrain to The Dove' "I'm very fond of little doves, I love to hear them coo, It's such a peaceful kind of sound And sort of mournful, too." The torsoness of his phraseology in treating '"JH of The Lobster shows, in one of his erudition, a ; JflH wonderful familiarity with the language of the , 1V9H day. As evidence of this other side of his rounded i " ffl 9BH nature, permit us in closing to quote these lines: t(ilir H "A lobster has two great big horns, t W H And two big claws that pinch, nfl So when it comes to taking hold, , ' nB I guess he's got a cinch." H ! , -H |