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trees and another eighty miUion acres produce absolutely noth- 

 ing. The author concluded that it is the part of wisdom lo 

 reforest these waste lands immediately. With reforestiation, 

 "a tree for a tree," protection from fire and a UK^re economical 

 use of forest i)roducts it is possible for our country to live 

 within its timl)er income. The author's style is direct and 

 convincing and the unique illustrations are calculated to ar- 

 rest attention. It is a book everybody ought to read. It is 

 published by Macmillan at $2.00. 



To one who in the ripening days of August fares through 

 uncared-for country roads, few bushes have more charm 

 than the elder. In every fence corner, bordering the tumbling 

 stone walls, and in unbrageous clumps by the brookside stand 

 these spreading shrubs with dull green foliage and hea\y 

 clusters of small purple-black berries. Not seldom wdd 

 vines run riot through the gray clustered stems; and the 

 clematis, the traveller's joy, tosses the white foam of its airy 

 bloom over the full fruitage. The elderberry crop never 

 fails. Huckleberries and blackberries, other children of the 

 wastes, may have dried in the droughts of midsummer, but 

 the little elderberries, full of crimson juice, crowd in close 

 cymes on every branch. Pleasant refreshments for him who 

 strolls afield, they may be used in many ways and when other 

 fruits fail may be of no slight importance to the housekeeper. 

 h'Ukrberries make a close second to the Ijest huckleberry pies 

 if they be but skillfully blended with spices. Elderberry jelly 

 i> firm and flavorous witli a racy tang of the woods; and 

 el(krl)erry wine said to reproduce the boquet of Frontignac, 

 sparkles through all Knglish storv of rural life. — M.vrTha B. 

 Fi.ix'i'. 



