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Hodder and Stoughton of London published the British edition
of this work.
At the same time that "A Girl of the Limberlost" was published
there appeared the book called "Birds of the Bible." This volume
took shape slowly. The author made a long search for each bird
mentioned in the Bible, how often, where, why; each quotation
concerning it in the whole book, every abstract reference, why
made, by whom, and what it meant. Then slowly dawned the sane and
true things said of birds in the Bible compared with the amazing
statements of Aristotle, Aristophanes, Pliny, and other writers of
about the same period in pagan nations. This led to a search for
the dawn of bird history and for the very first pictures preserved
of them. On this book the author expended more work than on any
other she has ever written.
In 1911 two more books for which Mrs. Porter had gathered material
for long periods came to a conclusion on the same date: "Music of
the Wild" and "The Harvester." The latter of these was a nature
novel; the other a frank nature book, filled with all outdoors--a
special study of the sounds one hears in fields and forests, and
photographic reproductions of the musicians and their instruments.
The idea of "The Harvester" was suggested to the author by an
editor who wanted a magazine article, with human interest in it,
about the ginseng diggers in her part of the country. Mr. Porter
had bought ginseng for years for a drug store he owned; there were
several people he knew still gathering it for market, and growing
it was becoming a good business all over the country.
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