  “The Complete American Trapper.” New York. James Miller, 1876. Republished in 1878 by Bradley & Co. Republished in 1880 by Harper and Brothers, under the title, “Camp Life in the Woods, and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap-Making.” “Pastoral Days; or, Memories of a New England Year.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1880. “Highways and Byways; or, Saunterings in New England.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1882. “Happy Hunting Grounds: A Tribute to the Woods and Fields.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1886. “Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1890. “Sharp Eyes: A Rambler’s Calendar of Fifty-two Weeks among Insects, Birds and Flowers.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1891. “Our Edible Mushrooms and Toadstools and How to “Eye Spy: Afield with Nature among Flowers and Animate Things.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1897. “My Studio Neighbors.” New York. Harper and Brothers, 1897. NOTE It is impossible to trace or to enumerate the anonymous and fugitive articles scattered through the periodicals and other publications from 1872. The same is true of illustrations. Gibson’s extraordinary productiveness and industry enabled him to furnish a vast amount of material to many publishers. Among the more important works which he illustrated, wholly or in part, the following may be named: “The American Agriculturist.” “Hearth and Home.” “Appleton’s Encyclopedia” (Botanical Drawings). “Picturesque America.” “Success with Small Fruits,” E. P. Roe. “In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers,” Elaine and Dora Goodale. The Heart of the White Mountains,” S. A. Drake. “The Master of the Gunnery.” “Nature’s Serial Story,” E. P. Roe. “The Pictorial Longfellow.” “Sketches in the South,” Charles Dudley Warner and Rebecca Harding Davis. Books for the Country NATURE STUDIES IN BERKSHIRE. By John Coleman Adams. With 16 illustrations in photogravure from original photographs by Arthur Scott. 8º, gilt top, $4.50. Popular edition, illustrated, 8º, $2.50. “The book on the whole is a sane and sympathetic tribute to nature, a tribute that is much enhanced by the accompanying beautiful photographs.”—Chicago Tribune. LANDSCAPE GARDENING. Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn-Planting, Laying out and Arrangement of Country Places, Large and Small Parks, etc. By Samuel Parsons, Jr., Ex-Superintendent of Parks, New York City. With nearly 200 illustrations. Large 8º, $3.50. “Mr. Parsons proves himself a master of his art as a landscape gardener, and this superb book should be studied by all who are concerned in the making of parks in other cities,”—Philadelphia Bulletin. LAWNS AND GARDENS. How to Beautify the Home Lot, the Pleasure Ground, and Garden. By N. JÖnsson-Rose, of the Department of Public Parks, New York City. With 172 plans and illustrations. Large 8º, gilt top, $3.50. “Mr. JÖnsson-Rose has prepared a treatise which will prove of genuine value to the large and increasing number of those who take a personal interest in their home grounds. It does not aim above the intelligence or Æsthetic sense of the ordinary American citizen who has never given any thought to planting and to whom some of the profounder principles of garden-art make no convincing appeal.”—Garden and Forest. ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. For Garden, Lawn, and Park Planting. By Lucius D. Davis. With over 100 illustrations. 8º, $3.50. “Mr. Davis writes with authority upon his chosen theme.... The book is full of information upon the subject of which it treats, and contains many suggestions that will prove helpful.”—N. Y. Times. THE LEAF COLLECTOR’S HANDBOOK AND HERBARIUM. An aid in the preservation and in the classification of specimen leaves of the trees of Northeastern America. By Charles S. Newhall. Illustrated. 8º, $2.00. “The idea of the book is so good and so simple as to recommend itself at a glance to everybody who cares to know our trees or to make for any purpose a collection of their leaves.”—N. Y. Critic. THE WONDERS OF PLANT LIFE. By Mrs. S. B. Herrick. Fully illustrated. 16º, $1.50. “A dainty volume ... opens up a whole world of fascination ... full of information.”—Boston Advertiser. THE HOME LIFE OF WILD BIRDS. A new method of the study and photography of birds. By Francis H. Herrick. With 141 illustrations from life. 4º, net, $2.50. Mr. Herrick has perfected an invention that brings the birds beneath his eye, and beneath the eye of his camera, in a way hitherto unheard of. At an actual distance of about 2 feet from the nest, the author and his camera stand. From that point of vantage they watch and record every movement of the bird family. OUR INSECT FRIENDS AND FOES. How to Collect, Preserve and Study Them. By Belle S. Cragin. With over 250 illustrations. 8º, $1.75 “Although primarily intended for boys and girls, it can hardly fail to enlist the aid of the older members of the family; and for the amateur collector of all ages who has all the requisite enthusiasm but lacks a practical knowledge of the art of preserving specimens, it should receive a warm welcome.”—Commercial Advertiser. AMONG THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. By Julia P. Ballard. Illustrated. 8º, $1.50. “The book, which is handsomely illustrated, is designed for young readers, relating some of the most curious facts of natural history in a singularly pleasant and instructive manner.”—N. Y. Tribune. BIRD STUDIES. An account of the Land Birds of Eastern North America. By William E.D. Scott. With 166 illustrations from original photographs. Quarto, leather back, gilt top, in a box, net, $5.00. “A book of first class importance.... Mr. Scott has been a field naturalist for upwards of thirty years, and few persons have a more intimate acquaintance than he with bird life. His work will take high rank for scientific accuracy and we trust it may prove successful.”—London Speaker. WILD FLOWERS OF THE NORTHEASTERN STATES. Drawn and carefully described from life, without undue use of scientific nomenclature, by Ellen Miller and Margaret C. Whiting. With 308 illustrations the size of life. 8º, net, $3.00. “Anybody who can read English can use the work and make his identifications, and, in the case of some of the flowers, the drawings alone furnish all that is necessary.... The descriptions are as good of their kind as the drawings are of theirs.”—N. Y. Times. THE SHRUBS OF NORTHEASTERN AMERICA. By Charles S. Newhall. Fully illustrated. 8º, $1.75. “This volume is beautifully printed on beautiful paper, and has a list of 116 illustrations calculated to explain the text. It has a mine of precious information, such as is seldom gathered within the covers of such a volume.”—Baltimore Farmer. THE VINES OF NORTHEASTERN AMERICA. By Charles S. Newhall. Fully illustrated. 8º, $1.75. “The work is that of the true scientist, artistically presented in a popular form to an appreciative class of readers.”—The Churchman. THE TREES OF NORTHEASTERN AMERICA. By Charles S. Newhall. With illustrations made from tracings of the leaves of the various trees. 8º, $1.75. “We believe this is the most complete and handsome volume of its kind, and on account of its completeness and the readiness with which it imparts information that everybody needs and few possess, it is invaluable.”—Binghamton Republican. G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, 27 & 29 West 23d St., New York |
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