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has "come to know a little about" from his own observations. A large 

 number of half-tones from excellent photographs by the author illustrate the 

 book so well that certainly they will help "extend living interest in the ani- 

 mals about us." 



Our Big Game. By. D. W. Huntington. New York . Scribner. 

 1904. Pp. 347, 16 photographic illustrations. $2. 



In this book the author of "Our Feathered Game" gives us the most 

 interesting natural history of the large game animals of North America. 

 The following table of contents will show prospective readers what to ex- 

 pect : Book I, the deer family — elk, moose, deer, caribou ; Book II, the 

 ox family — bison, musk-ox, mountain sheep, mountain goat, antelope ; 

 Book III, the bear family — the grizzly, polar, black and brown ; Book IV, 

 the cat family — cougar or mountain lion, lynx. 



We are so accustomed to hear that the game animals are almost gone that 

 it is encouraging to read that " the tremendous slaughter and waste have been 

 stayed" and that " the moose in Maine and deer in several New England 

 States are more abundant todav than they were when the writer began to 

 shoot." But better still: " The sportsmen of today think more of the pleasures 

 of going out of doors, of picturesque camps beside trout streams and forest 

 lakes, than of the killing of large numbers of game animals. One proof of 

 this is the use of the camera, which today is a part or the standard 

 equipment of the hunter's camp ; sportsmen have ceased to delight in being 

 photographed as batchers in an abattoir surrounded by heaps of slaughtered 

 animals." 



The book throughout is interesting reading and will certainly greatly 

 increase interest in the natural history and proper protection of our large 

 game mammals. 



Outlines of Nature Studies. By W. Lochhead. Toronto : Ontario 

 Dept. of Agriculture. 1905. 



These outlines for teachers constitute Bulletin 142 of Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College. The more than seventy topics cover a wide range of plant 

 and animal life, elementary agriculture, and physical nature-study. In' a few 

 places the outlines run far into the field of the science of botany e. g., 

 " Give a botanical definition of a nut" (p. 17); and technical botanical 

 names — pericarp, dehiscent, mesocarp, halophyte — are often used unneces- 

 sarily (from the nature-study point of view), because any standard book of 

 botany will explain all such points to those who care to go so far. However, 

 such departures from the real nature-study are uncommon and as a whole the 

 pamphlet ought to help many teachers in acquiring the kind of knowledge 

 which even beginners in nature-study teaching need. It should be explained 



