The love idyl of the Cardinal bird and his mate, told with rare delicacy and humor. An intensely interesting nature-romance resulting from close observation of the ways and habits of this most beautiful of American birds. With sympathetic understanding are recounted his search for a mate, his courtship, his adventures with rivals and with enemies, his home-making, his busy labors, and his relations with human admirers. The author knows her subject well and in telling this simple unaffected tale has produced a valuable study of bird life with so much artistic charm as to delight even those who do not ordinarily rank themselves as "bird-lovers."

From the dust jacket of the 1915 Grosset and Dunlap reprint edition