Forays through Forest and Field.

A guide for the observation of native nature in monthly pictures. Prepared for home and school by Senior Teacher Bernhard Landsberg. Second edition. With 84 illustrations after original drawings by Mrs. H. Landsberg. In original cloth binding M 5.—

The author of this book starts from Eichendorff's words, "Whomever God wishes to show true favor." He wants to guide youth to see and understand the wonders in mountain and valley and stream and field, and to stimulate them toward their own experiences and research. In three annual cycles, the book leads deeper and deeper into nature and through its life over the course of a year. It leads in the first year through "Spring Breezes" and "Harvest Blessings" to "The End of the Year." In the second, it teaches us to know the "Look into the Bird's Nest," the "Swamp and its Neighborhood," the "Friends and Enemies of the Planter," and introduces us to the life of plants, considering their "Nutrition, their Sleeping and Blooming," to close with a consideration of the "Stubble Field." In the third year, the "Awakening of Nature" is greeted, the "Seed and the Rye," the "Meadow," as well as the "Field Border and the Rye Field" are viewed with their rich, inexhaustible life. The "Enemies of the Plant World" offer further rich material, and the consideration of "Wintering" leads over to the concluding review of the "Life of Plants." The illustrations, drawn from nature by the author's wife, form a decoration of the book that is as useful as it is appealing.

Echoes of Home from German Lands.

Selected for young and old by Oscar Dähnhardt.

With book decoration by Robert Engels.

I. From Lowland and Heath. Low German poems and stories. (Published.)
II. From Vineyards and Forest Floor. Central German poems and stories.
III. From Highlands and Snowy Mountains. Upper German poems and stories. (Published.)

In artistic cover stitched, each approx. 2 Mk., bound approx. 3 Mk. 30 Pf.

The book is intended to become a German house book. For the best of dialect poetry, with its rugged liveliness, with the power and yet also the intimacy of its sentiment, with the bubbling merriment and the stark earnestness of its spirit, has a right to this place. In it is reflected the peculiarity of the German people, who, for all their unity, display a wonderful variety.

The drawings by Robert Engels shape the motifs of the poems in such a way that they have independent value as works of art.