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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



Progressive Poultry Culture, by A. A. Brig- 

 ham. 12mo, cloth. The Torch Press, 

 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, $1.50 postpaid. 



A good book on the many-sided topic of 

 poultry culture is always welcome, and the 

 Torch Press of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 

 is to be congratulated on being the pub- 

 lishers of Dr. A. A. Brigham's volume, "Pro- 

 gressive Poultry Culture." 



The work is carefully and ably done by 

 one of the oldest and best known specialists 

 in the field to-day. Dr. Brigham is an ac- 

 knowledged authority on the subject, not 

 only in this country but in both Europe 

 and Asia. Anything written by this skilled 

 poultryman and lover of pure bred fowls 

 is of the highest value as well as interest. 

 He writes from large experience gained 

 while resident at different times in six states 

 of the Union and after having been Pro- 

 fessor of Agriculture in Japan; hence it is 

 easy to realize that a book of this character 

 from him, must be of unusual excellence. 



Gleanings from Nature. By W. S. Blatchley, 

 Indianapolis, Indiana: The Nature Pub- 

 lishing Company. 



In time of publication, this book is not 

 new; but in the spirit of its contents, it is 

 ever new and refreshing. The author says 

 truly that he knows by experience, both on 

 the farm and in the school room, that the 

 possession of a better knowledge of nature 

 by country youths is one of the crying 

 needs of the hour. With such a knowledge 

 generally diffused there would be less dis- 

 satisfaction with country life and fewer 

 farmers' sons and daughters would flock 

 to the cities, because, as a recent writer 

 expresses it, "they wish to get rid of the 

 prosy, stunting, isolated life on the farm." 

 With a knowledge of some of nature's ob- 

 jects and a desire to ferret out for them- 

 selves some of her secrets, they would have 

 something of which to talk and think be- 

 side crops, stock, work, neighborhood gos- 

 sip and local politics, and the attractions 

 of the city would seldom excel those to be 

 found on the old homestead. 



Gray's New Manual of Botany (Seventh Edi- 

 tion— Illustrated). A Handbook of the 

 Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Cen- 

 tral and Northeastern United States and 

 Adjacent Canada. Rearranged and ex- 

 tensively revised by Benjamin Lincoln 

 Robinson, Asa Gray Professor of Sys- 

 tematic Botany in Harvard University, 

 and Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Assistant 

 Professor of Botany in Harvard Uni- 

 versity. New York: Cincinnati: Chi- 

 cago: American Book Company. 

 "In bringing Dr. Asa Gray's well-known 

 Manual to date and into accord with modern 

 views of classification and nomenclature, 

 the present editors have found it necessary 

 to rearrange it throughout, rewrite con- 

 siderable portions, modify at least slightly, 

 nearly all the descriptions, and adopt cer- 



tain principles of nomenclature (notably 

 the one relating to the first specific name) 

 somewhat at variance with Dr. Gray's prac- 

 tice. Although these changes have been 

 numerous and in some respects fundamen- 

 tal, it is believed that they are all in thor- 

 ough accord with the liberal spirit of pro- 

 gress which characterized his own success- 

 sive publications. 



"Many of the older figures, formerly 

 grouped in plates, have been redrawn and 

 for greater convenience placed in the text, 

 and to these have been added a much larger 

 number of new ones." 



American National Red Cross Text-Book 

 on First Aid and Relief Columns. By 



Major Charles Lynch, of the Medical 

 Corps, U. S. A. A Manual of Instruction 

 for the Prevention of Accidents and 

 What to Do for Injuries and Emergen- 

 cies. Prepared for and Indorsed by 

 the American National Red Cross. With 

 a Preface by R. M. O'Reilly, Brigadier 

 General, Surgeon-General, U. S. A. P. 

 Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, Phil- 

 adelphia. 74 Illustrations. Pocket-size; 

 244 pages. Limp Cloth, $1.00 net. 



The Red Cross is in each country an or- 

 ganization recognized by the respective Gov- 

 ernments for the purpose of rendering aid 

 to the medical services of armies in time 

 of war, and, furthermore, to mitigate the 

 suffering caused by great calamities, and 

 to devise and carry on means for preventing 

 the same. It has, therefore, an important 

 educational duty to perform. 



For the purpose of further fulfilling this 

 duty the American National Red Cross has 

 issued the First Aid and Relief Column text- 

 book for use in schools, colleges, Y. M. C. 

 A's., in the family, and for service in the 

 training of Nurses and Red Cross Relief 

 Columns. Major Charles Lynch, of the Medi- 

 cal Corps of the United States Army, was 

 especially requested by the Red Cross to 

 prepare this text-book. 



The author is a surgeon in the Army 

 Medical Service, and has been especially 

 detailed by the War Department to act as 

 the medium between that department and 

 the National Red Cross. His duties are to 

 study and suggest in what way the services 

 of the Society can be made the most avail- 

 able. Major Lynch was the U. S. Medical 

 Attache to the Japanese Army during the 

 Russian-Japanese War and while there had 

 special opportunities for observing the im- 

 provised materials used by them in case of 

 need, and their manner of rendering first- 

 aid which proved of such value in the pre- 

 serving of life during that war. He has 

 been engaged in organizing First Aid and 

 Relief Columns, lecturing before various 

 branches of the Y. M. C. A., and otherwise 

 devoting much time to this special subject. 

 He has, therefore, a large experience of the 

 necessities and practical value of such work 

 and of the wants of those seeking instruc- 

 tion. 



