The Dial Volume 22-23 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...the attitude of a tired-out race. When we keep in touch with Nature we share her splendid life. For Nature, even a yardful of it, makes health in her communicant. Get away from self-consciousness. Think not of your mind nor of your fate. Why be always thinking on your end? as graveyard literature hath it. We are here to live; not to die." He is content with his lot; and, reflecting on the cares and miseries of the rich, cheerily observes that "The chief blessing of poverty is that other folks do n't ask you to help them to live." His pages are sown with wise and witty sayings, and provoke many a welcome laugh as well as serious moment of meditation. We have but to announce a new volume by Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller to assure the nature-lover of a literary treat. Mrs. Miller's writings are invariably crisp and spicy, and are composed of substantial as well as appetizing substance. "Upon the Tree-Tops" brings within a single pair of book-lids thirteen sketches of bird-life which, with one or two exceptions, have previously attracted attention in the pages of " The Atlantic Monthly " and similar periodicals. They will bear a second perusal, and in their present pretty setting are even more engaging than in their original form. They are accompanied by ten full-page engravings by Mr. F. Carter Beard, which are unusually interesting in design and are exquisitely reproduced. The opening sketch, describing "Tramps with an Enthusiast," is perhaps the most entertaining of the entire number, from its abundant humor and lively incident. If there be a specially blissful experience in this mortal life, it is that which comes to a pair of enthusiastic ornithologists out in the field pursuing the objects of their affection under f...