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Wilderness Pets at Camp Buckshaw. By 



Edward Breck. With Illustrations from 

 Photographs from Life. Boston: Hough- 

 ton Mifflin Company. 



This is a grand, inspiring book. The 

 author writes with frankness and an evi- 

 dent desire to stimulate an interest in 

 nature. He is undoubtedly genuine. Just 



FROM "WILDERNESS PETS AT CAMP 

 BUCKSHAW." 



read his candid and conscientious "Preface." 

 It is so good we copy it entire: 



"This is a plain tale of Camp Buckshaw 

 and its wild pets. With a few unimportant 

 exceptions it is also a true tale. The char- 

 acters are nearly all real persons, though 

 some liberty has been taken with their con- 

 versation; and the pets and their deeds are 

 described as accurately as close observation 

 and the use of note-book and camera can 

 insure. Only the episodes of the cubs at 

 Sunday School and of the disagreeable old 

 lady are fictitious, while the sole picture 

 taken from a photograph not made at or 

 near Camp Buckshaw is that of the big 

 moose. This was kindly loaned the author, 

 as his own efforts to secure a good photo- 

 graph of a bull-moose in hunting time have 

 been in vain. 



"If the story affords its readers, both 

 young and old, but a small fraction of the 

 delight conferred by Uncle Ned's pets upon 

 those who were privileged to know them 

 personally, the author will be well content. 

 He wishes it to stand as an inspiration to 

 study nature reverently ana at first hand, 

 and a protest against those baneful results 

 of modern civilization — insenate luxury and 

 false and artificial standards of life." 



Practical Forestry. By Andrew S. Fuller. 

 New York: Orange Judd Company. 

 This is a practical book for those who 

 raise forest trees for pleasure or profit. It 

 also assists in identification of the trees 

 found in the forest. 



General Biology. V Book of Outlines and 

 Practical Studies for the General Stu- 

 dent. By James G. Needham, Ph»D. 

 Ithaca, New York: The Comstock Pub- 

 lishing Company. 

 This book offers a series of practical 

 studies of biological phenomena for the 

 guidance of the general student. It is not 

 a formal text, and not at all a treatise, but 

 only a guide intended to assist the student 

 in acquiring for himself some real knowl- 

 edge of living nature. The conditions of our 

 living make ever increasing demands for 

 knowledge of life phenomena, and some 

 comprehension of biological principles is 

 fast becoming a part of the common intelli- 

 gence. This book is an excellent supply in 

 these demands. 



A High School Course in Physics. By Fred- 

 erick R. Gorton, B. S., M. A., Ph. D. New 

 York, Chicago: D. Appleton & Co. 

 This is an expansion of the everyday life 

 of the pupils into the broader experience 

 and observation of those whose lives have 

 been devoted to the study. The author de- 

 duces his physical laws from common obser- 

 vation. This is a sensible method and is' for 

 physics the same as that of "The Guide to 

 Nature" is for biology. 



Curiosities of the Sky. By Garrett P. Ser- 

 viss. New York: Harper & Brothers. 

 The author provides here an intimate and 

 authoritative description of the curious 

 bodies, constellations, stars, comets, meteors, 

 lights, etc., etc., to be seen in the sky. The 

 subject is' called to every man's attention 

 in a score of ways. He sees these things for 

 himself, he reads about them in his news- 

 paper, he knows that scientists are engaged 

 with their explanation, and hears now and 

 then of some wonderful new discovery — 

 but he never knows' quite what it is all 

 about. This book will tell him. 



Text-book of Elementary Zoology. For Sec- 

 ondary Educational Institutions. By 

 Thomas Walton Galloway, Ph. D. Phila- 

 delphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Com- 

 pany. 

 A well arranged and useful book. Here 

 is one of the most important statements: 

 "It does not make any real difference 

 whether the interest is in bees', or in ants, 

 spiders, butterflies, snails, fishes, or birds; 

 it does not matter whether it is in coloration, 

 or in manner of locomotion, or in the mating 

 instincts and care of young, or in the won- 

 derful story of the development of the frog 

 from the tadpole or the fly from the maggot. 

 By all means become interested in some- 

 thing and let the word zoology always mean 

 to you this one thing as the central thought." 



