BOOKS AND CURRENT LITERATURE 



Forestry of the Northeastern States. — The authors of Fores- 

 try in New England" (John Wiley & Sons: 1912) have brought out a 

 revised edition^ of that portion of their earlier work that surveys the 

 field of forestry and sets forth the fundamental principles on which 

 rest the practice of forestry as an art. This work forms the first volume 

 of a manual the second volume of which will deal with New England 

 forests and their management, but it is unlikely that that volume will 

 appear until the conclusion of the war. 



From long practical experience both in teaching and in state forestry 

 work, the authors are well fitted for their task. For use in colleges and 

 by the general reader Forestry in New England has held a well merited 

 place in American forest literature. In its new dress the matter pre- 

 sented, can be put to still more extended use, for its clear statement of 

 principles, in convenient and compact form, entitles this book to a much 

 wider field than the portions of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania 

 and Southeastern Canada, where the forest conditions approximate 

 those of New England. Especially will this volume be of value in the 

 agricultural colleges and other schools that without attempting to give 

 professional training, yet offer general instruction in forestry. 



In the main the present volume covers the topics treated in Part I 

 of the first edition. But the arrangement has been improved and given 

 more logical sequence. One notable feature, for which the authors are 

 to be commended, is that they have consistently followed throughout 

 the revised terminology proposed by a Committee of the Society of 

 American Foresters in 1916.^ 



The introductory chapter discusses briefly the basic principles under- 

 lying silvics of forest ecology. This is followed by a statement of the 

 silvicultural characteristics of some 24 New England trees, consider- 



1 Hawley, Ralph C, and Hawes, Austin, F. Manual of Forestry for the 

 Northeastern United States. Pp. xii + 281, illustrated. New York, John Wiley 

 and Sons (.$2.00). 



2 "Forest Terminology," Journal of Forestry— Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 68-101. 

 Washington, D. C, January, 1917. See also Vol. XVI — No. 1, pp. 1-75. January, 

 1918. 



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