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 THE OFFICIAL U.S. ARMY:·
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THE OFFICIAL U.S. ARMY

ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO
EDIBLE WILD PLANTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1
Edible Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Plant Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Universal Edibility Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Edible Plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Part 2
Poisonous Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Rules for Avoiding Poisonous Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Contact Dermatitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Ingestion Poisoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Poisonous Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
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P A R T 1

EDIBLE PLANTS
In a survival situation, plants can provide food and
medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive
identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating,
and knowing any dangerous properties they might have.
Familiarity with botanical structures of plants and
information on where they grow will make them easier
to locate and identify.

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Plant Identification
You identify plants, other than by memorizing particular varieties
through familiarity, by using such factors as leaf shape and margin, leaf
arrangements, and root structure.
The basic leaf margins (see Figure 1.1) are toothed, lobed, and tooth-
less or smooth.
These leaves may be lance-shaped, elliptical, egg-shaped, oblong,
wedge-shaped, triangular, long-pointed, or top-shaped (Figure 1.2).
The basic types of leaf arrangements (Figure 1.3) are opposite, alternate,
compound, simple, and basal rosette.
The basic types of root structures (Figure 1.4) are the bulb, clove,
taproot, tuber, rhizome, corm, and crown. Bulbs are familiar to us as
onions and, when sliced in half, will show concentric rings. Cloves
are those bulblike structures that remind us of garlic and will separate
into small pieces when broken apart. This characteristic separates
wild onions from wild garlic. Taproots resemble carrots and may be
single-rooted or branched, but usually only one plant stalk arises
from each root. Tubers are like potatoes and daylilies and you will
find these structures either on strings or in clusters underneath the

Figure 1-1. Leaf margins.

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parent plants. Rhizomes are large creeping rootstocks or underground

stems and many plants arise from the “eyes” of these roots. Corms are
similar to bulbs but are solid when cut rather than possessing rings. A
crown is the type of root structure found on plants such as asparagus
and looks much like a mophead under the soil’s surface.
Learn as much a possible about plants you intend to use for food
and their unique characteristics. Some plants have both edible and
poisonous parts. Many are edible only at certain times of the year.
Others may have poisonous relatives that look very similar to the
ones you can eat or use for medicine.

Figure 1-2. Leaf shapes.

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Figure 1-3. Leaf arrangements.

Figure 1-4. Root structures.

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Universal Edibility Test

There are many plants throughout the world. Tasting or swallowing
even a small portion of some can cause severe discomfort, extreme
internal disorders, and even death. Therefore, if you have the slightest
doubt about a plant’s edibility, apply the Universal Edibility Test
(Figure 1.5) before eating any portion of it.
Before testing a plant for edibility, make sure there are enough plants
to make the testing worth your time and effort. Each part of a plant
(roots, leaves, flowers, and so on) requires more than 24 hours to test.
Do not waste time testing a plant that is not relatively abundant in
the area.
Remember, eating large portions of plant food on an empty stomach
may cause diarrhea, nausea, or cramps. Two good examples of this are
such familiar foods as green apples and wild onions. Even after testing
plant food and finding it safe, eat it in moderation.
You can see from the steps and time involved in testing for edibility
just how important it is to be able to identify edible plants.
To avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or
unknown plants that have—
• Milky or discolored sap.
• Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods.
• Bitter or soapy taste.
• Spines, fine hairs, or thorns.
• Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsleylike foliage.
• “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves.
• Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs.
• Three-leaved growth pattern.
Using the above criteria as eliminators when choosing plants for the
Universal Edibility Test will cause you to avoid some edible plants.
More important, these criteria will often help you avoid plants that
are potentially toxic to eat or touch.
Learn as much as possible about the plant life of the areas where you
train regularly and where you expect to be traveling or working.

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1 Test only one part of a potential food plant at a time.

2 Separate the plant into its basic components—leaves, stems, roots, buds,
and flowers.

3 Smell the food for strong or acid odors. Remember, smell alone does not
indicate a plant is edible or inedible.

4 Do not eat for 8 hours before starting the test.

5 During the 8 hours you abstain from eating, test for contact poisoning by
placing a piece of the plant part you are testing on the inside of your elbow
or wrist. Usually 15 minutes is enough time to allow for a reaction.

6 During the test period, take nothing by mouth except purified water and
the plant part you are testing.

7 Select a small portion of a single part and prepare it the way you plan to eat it.

8 Before placing the prepared plant part in your mouth, touch a small portion
(a pinch) to the outer surface of your lip to test for burning or itching.

9 If after 3 minutes there is no reaction on your lip, place the plant part on
your tongue, holding it there for 15 minutes.

10 If there is no reaction, thoroughly chew a pinch and hold it in your mouth

for 15 minutes. Do not swallow.

11 If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging, or other irritation occurs during

the 15 minutes, swallow the food.

12 Wait 8 hours. If any ill effects occur during this period, induce vomiting and
drink a lot of water.

13 If no ill effects occur, eat 0.25 cup of the same plant part prepared the same
way. Wait another 8 hours. If no ill effects occur, the plant part as prepared
is safe for eating.

CAUTION
Test all parts of the plant for edibility, as some plants have both edible and
inedible parts. Do not assume that a part that proved edible when cooked is
also edible when raw. Test the part raw to ensure edibility before eating raw.
The same part or plant may produce varying reactions in different individuals.

Figure 1-5. Universal Edibility Test

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power. The title is a part of the Latin proverb, "Vestigia
nulla retrorsum"—no steps backward—which is the
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"The best work that Miss Julia Constance Fletcher, who
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with one important action in Rome. The hero is a fine
young fellow, urged by his friends, circumstances and
his own sense of honor into a political complication,
where he becomes the instrument of conspirators.
Most of the characters are of the lower class of
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people of keen intelligence and noble natures. The
heroine is very lovely, with great moral strength that
comes from her absolute purity and unwavering faith
in those whom she loves and in God. The simple,
laborious life of the people, with a touch of patrician
splendor introduced now and then for artistic effect, is
 an attractive picture. The whole story is sweet, tender
and noble."—Boston Advertiser.

A NEWPORT AQUARELLE. A novel. One vol. 12mo.

Cloth. Price, $1.00

"'A Newport Aquarelle' will be found the breeziest, the

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Charmingly true to nature and admirable as a bit of
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Boston Saturday Gazette.
"Is it a man's or a woman's book? is the first question,
and it must be said that it is not easy to find an
answer."
"The most brilliant novelette of the season."
"An anonymous novel, the like of which we have not
had for a long while."—Exchange.

MARGARET FULLER. Famous Women Series. By Julia

Ward Howe. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

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in the Famous Women series of Messrs. Roberts
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subject here on which she writes con amore. For her
material she is of course largely indebted to the
remarkable volumes published by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, James Freeman Clarke and William Ellery
Channing many years ago; but Mrs. Howe gives the
narrative in her own manner. She has made a brilliant
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 character is thoroughly sympathetic; her relation of her
life is done in a graphic and at times a fascinating
manner. It is the case of one woman of strong
individuality depicting the points which made another
one of the most marked characters of her day. It is
always agreeable to follow Mrs. Howe in this; for while
we see marks of her own mind constantly, there is no
inartistic protrusion of her personality. The book is
always readable, and the relation of the death-scene is
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THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. By Robert Louis

Stevenson, author of "Travels with a Donkey," "An
Inland Voyage," "Treasure Island," etc. With a
frontispiece. 16mo. Price, $1.00

"The Silverado Squatters is the title of an exceedingly

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abandoned mining village of Silverado. There with his
wife and a single servant considerable time was spent.
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of describing places and characters with such vividness
that you seem to have made personal acquaintance
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many phases of life upon the western coast before one
with striking power and captivating grace."—N.Y.
World.
THE STORY OF MY HEART: My Autobiography. By
Richard Jefferies. 16mo. Cloth. Price, .75

"The book is a contribution to the ideal in life. It is

composed of day dreams—dreams which haunt an
earnest mind as night follows day—a strong plea to
hold communion with nature," says the London
Academy.
"Mr. Jefferies has won his way to the hearts of a large
circle of readers by his charming description of 'The
Gamekeeper at Home.' He now draws upon the rich
stores of his imagination for the material that will
present a unique form of autobiography. He tells 'The
Story of My Heart.' He lays open the history of that
most important organ of the human frame, wherein
the emotions of the soul are supposed to lie. The
revelations are made with an exuberance of fancy, a
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LEAD KINDLY LIGHT. By John Henry Newman. With six

full-page illustrative designs by Wm. St. John Harper,
and six full-page symbolical designs by George R.
Halm, the whole engraved by George T. Andrew. The
illustrative designs printed in black ink, the symbolical
designs printed in brown ink. The concluding page
contains the whole hymn with its familiar musical
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one of the finest expressions of trusting faith which the
hymnology of the language affords, 'Lead, Kindly
Light,' has brought comfort and strength to so many
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being most cordially welcomed. George R. Halm and
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stanza a setting in symbolical and scroll work, while Mr.
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illustrating the spirit and meaning of the poet. The
poem is beautifully printed, and the cuts are carefully
and spiritedly engraved, making of the work a most
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Boston Courier.
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humanity. It is with real satisfaction that one takes up
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faculty of engraving. The frontispiece, 'Lead Thou me
on,' is the best contribution which Mr. Harper makes to
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suggestive. Mr. Halm's illustrations, which are printed
in light brown or sepia, are notably fine. The
symbolism which the artist employs suggest
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 is pervaded by a delicate imaginative insight and
beauty which delight one the more the longer they are
looked at; indeed, we doubt if anything has been done
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A ROUND DOZEN OF STORIES. By Susan Coolidge,

author of "What Katy Did," "The New-Year's Bargain,"
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WIND VOICES. A collection of Philip Bourke Marston's

later poems and sonnets. The author, who, it will be
remembered, is entirely blind, ranks, according to the
London Examiner, "alongside of Swinburne, Morris and
Rossetti." 16mo. Price, $1.50

"There are a number of poems in the volume which

call for especial mention, yet they must be left to the
discovery of the reader, it being sufficient to say that
this volume is sure to advance Mr. Marston's reputation
as a genuine, sweet and imaginative singer."—Boston
Courier.

DIANE CORYVAL. Diane Coryval, the pretty name of

the heroine, gives the title to a new "No Name" novel,
a very absorbingly interesting story of French domestic
life. 16mo. Price, $1.00

"The incidents, although a few are uncommon and

provocative of questioning, have the naturalness of
those of actual experience. They lead to exciting
situations and a dramatic denouement. The action in
 Paris is among artists, and is introductory. It is when
the action has shifted to a country town on the coast
that it develops its greatest effects and interest. Sea-
coast scenery and farm life are described with a
communion into their spirit and an intimacy such as
only a true lover of the country can ever have. The
occupants of the farm, two of whom are leading
characters, have the same fondness and fidelity given
to their delineation. This portion of the literary work,
although quietly and unobtrusively, is exceedingly well
done, and is pleasing. Diane is the principal character,
and is given the real qualities of womanhood; her acts
are made consistent with them, and to tend to their
nobler development. She illustrates the undying
devotion of true love. This last 'No Name' has higher
and more even merit than any of its series. Its ground
and plot are well chosen, while its composition and
treatment are artistic. It will be widely read and
heartily enjoyed."—Boston Globe.

TREASURE ISLAND. A Story of Pirates and the

Spanish Main. By Robert Louis Stevenson. With
illustrations by F.T. Merrill. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25

"At a time when the books of Mayne Reid, Ballantyne

and Kingston are taking their places on the shelves to
which well-thumbed volumes are relegated, it will be
with especial delight that boy readers welcome a new
writer in the literature of adventure. In 'Treasure
Island,' Robert Louis Stevenson takes a new departure,
and writes one of the jolliest, most readable, wide-
awake tales of sea life that have set the blood tingling
in the veins of the boys of at least the present
generation. It is decidedly of the exciting order of
stories, yet not of the unhealthily sensational. It details
the stirring adventures of an English crew in their
 search for the immense treasure secreted by a pirate
captain, and it certainly has not a dull page in it. Yet
the author has contrived to keep the sympathy on the
side of virtue and honesty, and throw upon the pirates
that odium and detestation which their nefarious
courses deserve; and the book is one heartily to be
commended to any sturdy, wholesome lad who is fond
of the smell of the brine and the tang of sailor speech
in his reading."—Boston Courier.

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.

By Thomas Gray. With thirty illustrations by Harry Fenn.
Engraved by George T. Andrew. One vol. Post 8vo.
Beautifully bound in cloth, bevelled boards, gilt and gilt
edge. Price, $1.50
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Mr. Fenn visited Stoke Poges, the locality of the poem,

and many of the illustrations are from sketches taken
by him on the spot, and all of them were made
expressly for this edition.
An interesting feature of the Harry Fenn edition is the
reproduction of three stanzas printed with the earlier
editions, but subsequently dropped by the author.
"The 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' by
Thomas Gray, which has long held the proud
distinction of being 'the most finished poem in the
English tongue,' is just issued by Roberts Brothers,
Boston, in an exquisitely illustrated volume, which
must hold a very high place among the handsome gift
 books of the season. The illustrations were all drawn
by Harry Fenn, especially for this edition, many of
them from sketches made by the artist at Stoke Poges,
the scene of the poem. The frontispiece, an exquisite
sketch of vines and flowers clustering over and about
an old gravestone, presents a 'rejected verse,'
reprinted from the earlier editions—a verse for the
rejection of which one scarcely sees any sufficient
reason, finding it as full of tenderly pathetic music as
any part of the poem—and in an appendix the same
verse reappears, with two others, together with some
note of the places they were originally intended to fill
and the author's reasons for their omission. The
illustrations are all designed with as truly poetic a spirit
as the poem itself breathes, and all are presented in
the very highest style of the engraver's art. To say that
a book is a 'picture book' is usually to imply something
rather derogatory to its character for value in other
respects. But not so in this case. Here the most
delicate and appreciative art is used to interpret to the
eye the exquisite poetry of the text. However warmly
one may have supposed himself to admire the poem,
he can hardly rise from thoughtfully looking over this
edition of the 'Elegy' without some consciously new
and fresh appreciation of the beauty of the lines, so
strikingly and fitly has their lofty and tender thought
been interpreted to the eye. In all, too, that pertains to
the work of the book-maker—in paper, typography,
binding, etc.—the little volume is in thorough keeping
with the art of the poet and the illustrator."—Chicago
Times.

THE BOY KNIGHT, Who Won his Spurs Fighting $1.50

with King Richard of England. A Tale of the
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THE NO NAME NOVELS.

"No one of the numerous series of novels, with which
the country has been deluged of late, contains as
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First Series.—Mercy Philbrick's Choice; Afterglow;

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JEAN INGELOW’S POETICAL WORKS. With
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CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI’S POETICAL WORKS.

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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI’S POETICAL WORKS.
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GEORGE SAND. Famous Women Series. By Bertha

Thomas. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"The volume before us, which is published in the series

of brief biographies of famous women, of which we
have upon previous occasions taken favorable notice,
will give its readers a clear and generally adequate
idea of George Sand's character and genius, and will
serve to correct many misconceptions in regard to the
nature of her writings which ignorance and prejudice
have spread abroad. At the same time Miss Thomas
has sought rather to portray the character of the
famous French woman to whom she pays tribute than
to criticise or expound the long line of novels which
her fertile imagination produced. Her book is rather
biographical than literary in its purpose and inspiration,
and though the Sand romances are reviewed, and their
distinctive characteristics appreciatively and
intelligently described, the volume depends for its
value and interest upon its narrative and portraiture. It
is pleasantly, gracefully and cleverly written, and will
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series to which it belongs."—North American, Phila.
"The best of the biography is that we gain from it
good, definite notions of the early home, the convent,
the marriage with M. Dudevant and how it came
about, the short family life, and the circumstances of
the early residence in Paris. Each change down to the
last scenes of George Sand's life is characterized. So
also are the books, which are classified and briefly
described. So is that wonderful mental life, so flaming,
so easily working itself into words and deeds, so much
less removed in subtlety from our common life of
common people than was the mental life of almost any
other great genius. Owing to the sound and practical
treatment which the subject receives at Miss Thomas'
hands, the book is plain, readable, adapted to the
widest circle of readers, doing in no respect injustice to
the mighty soul whose course Miss Thomas can trace
and describe, but not as one could who had taken the
 same flights, or others as high, if not the same. The
Famous Women series is a notable one."—Boston
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TEN TIMES ONE IS TEN. The Possible Reformation.

By E.E. Hale. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"Notwithstanding the assertion of the title-page, the

Rev. E.E. Hale is the author of the story under notice,
and it is marked by all the well-known characteristics
of his peculiar style. It is an account of a remarkable
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human existence by carrying out those principles of a
truism which Auguste Comte is credited with having
formulated, but which were first embodied in the
teachings of Christianity, and which find in the golden
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interesting writer and a very sympathetic one. He
possesses in unusual measure the merit of
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before his readers the sins, crimes and weaknesses of
men, he presents only those things which are honest
and of good report. The impression made by such
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readers better and happier and more useful in their
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One is Ten' will have a wide circulation."—North
American, Phila.
"Roberts Brothers have issued a new edition of 'Ten
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 getting itself read by whoever takes it up."—New York
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A LITTLE PILGRIM. Reprinted from Macmillan's

Magazine. 16mo. Cloth. Red edges. Price, $.75

"An exquisitely written little sketch is found in that

remarkable production, 'The Little Pilgrim,' which is
just now attracting much attention both in Europe and
America. It is highly imaginative in its scope,
representing one of the world-worn and weary pilgrims
of our earthly sphere as entering upon the delights of
heaven after death. The picture of heaven is drawn
with the rarest delicacy and refinement, and is in
agreeable contrast in this respect to the material
sketch of this future home furnished in Miss Stuart
Phelps's well-remembered 'Gates Ajar.' The book will
be a balm to the heart of many readers who are in
accord with the faith of its author; and to others its
reading will afford rare pleasure from the exceeding
beauty and affecting simplicity of its almost perfect
literary style."—Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The life beyond the grave, when the short life in this
world is ended, is to many a source of dread—to all a
mystery. 'A Little Pilgrim' has apparently solved it, and,
indeed, it seems on reading this little book as if there
were a great probability about it. A soft, gentle tone
pervades its every sentence, and one cannot read it
without feeling refreshed and strengthened."—The Alta
California.

THE GREAT EPICS OF MEDIÆVAL GERMANY. An

Outline of their Contents and History. By George
Theodore Dippold, Professor at Boston University
and Wellesley College. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50
 Professor Francis J. Child, of Harvard College, says: "It
is an excellent account of the chief German heroic
poems of the Middle Ages, accompanied with spirited
translations. It is a book which gives both a brief and
popular, and also an accurate, account of this
important section of literature, and will be very
welcome here and at other colleges."
"No student of modern literature, and above all no
student who aims to understand the literary
development of Europe in its fullest range, can leave
this rich and ample world of early song unexplored. To
all such Professor Dippold's book will have the value of
a trustworthy guide.... It has all the interest of a
chapter in the growth of the human mind into
comprehension of the universe and of itself, and it has
the pervading charm of the vast realm of poetry
through which it moves."—Christian Union.

MY HOUSEHOLD OF PETS. By Theophile Gautier.

Translated from the French by Susan Coolidge. With
illustrations by Frank Rogers. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25

"This little book will interest lovers of animals, and the

quaint style in which M. Gautier tells of the wisdom of
his household pets will please every one. The
translator, too, is happy in her work, for she has
succeeded in rendering the text into English without
loss of the French tone, which makes it fascinating.
These household pets consisted of white and black
cats, dogs, chameleons, lizards, magpies, and horses,
each of which has a character and story of its own.
Illustrations and a pretty binding add to the attractions
of the volume."—Worcester Spy.
"The ease and elegance of Theophile Gautier's diction
is wonderful, and the translator has preserved the
charm of the French author with far more than the
average fidelity. 'My Household of Pets' is a book which
can be read with pleasure by young and old. It is a
charming volume."—St. Louis Spectator.

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