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RICE TWO CENTS
MISCELLANEOUS.
HOLDEN'S BOOK ON BIRDS.
Its Appearance - Their Treatment when Confined - "God's Joyous Warblers" - Mocking Bird and Parrot - Bird Trade in America - Sole Cause of Ills - Parrot Family - The Human Voice - Benefit of Patience - Likeness of the Messrs. Reiche and Mr. Holden - "Little Dewdrops of Celestial Melody" - Thanks of Humanity.

We offer no apology for the seeming length of this notice. The book fully merits it, and the author for his labors deserves it.
We have received from the house of Charles Reiche & Brother, 55 Chatham street, New York, and No. 9 Bowdoin square, Boston, the long promised book on Birds, by Charles F. Holden, the well known Bird Fancier, of this city. We have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Holden has given to lovers of birds the most

Practical and Common Sense Work
n the European and American cage birds that has ever been published. 
The book is of pleasing appearance, being a 16mo., containing 100 pages, printed on excellent paper, and when we say that it is from the press of Messrs. and & Avery, it requires no further word of commendation as it regards its typoraphical excellence. One great failing of the authors who have heretofore written upon this subject has been their want of practical experience. Audubon and Wilson, who ere certainly of the best, filled their books with elaborate descriptions of birds' mode of life in its ld state, a physiological analysis of its frame, and general description of its plumage, but failed to e directions as to

Its Treatment when Confined.
? want the work in question has supplied.  The ?? preface says:
"There are few persons who have not, during some portion of their lives, nourished and cherished a pet of some kind; and birds, from their elegant and beautiful coloring, the graceful ease of their flight, their beautiful music, their tender solicitude for their young, their susceptibility of domestication, and engaging instincts, have for ages attracted the universal attention of the human family; and to those who treat them kindly they become greatly attached and manifest much affection, and without doubt stand foremost of the entire range of animated nature.  To those who love these

'God's Joyous Warblers,'
the succeeding pages of this book are dedicated 

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