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BOOK REVIEWS 



Mrs. Allen's Cook Book, by Ida C. Bailey 

 Allen. Small, Maynard & Company, 

 Boston. Price, $2. In commenting on 

 this volume, just off the press, Lewis 

 B. Allyn, Food Editor of the McClure 

 Publications, well says : "The chemi- 

 cal composition of the body requires 

 foods of similar composition. The 

 author of this book in a delightfully 

 simple manner has presented the prob- 

 lem so that, generally speaking, the 

 body may extract from the foods the 

 maximum amount of building and fuel 

 material with the least expenditure of 

 dynamic energy. 



"The housewife who studies these 

 chapters cannot fail to find sugges- 

 tions adaptable, economical and hy- 

 gienic. 



"Mrs. Allen has expressed in popu- 

 lar terms a simple, workable outline 

 of food combination, well adapted to 

 the needs of the housewife. If her 

 book is carefully followed, the dietary 

 of the average family will be much im- 

 proved, cost decreased and a general 

 gain in health experienced." 

 Trees, Stars and Birds — A book of out- 

 door science, by Edward Lincoln 

 Moseley, head of the science depart- 

 ment. State Normal College of North- 

 western Ohio. Illustrated. Price, $1.40. 

 Published by World Book Company, 

 Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York. 



The innate desire of the child to 

 know about nature out-of-doors car- 

 ries educational possibilities that can- 

 not be ignored. But nature study as 

 such is still new in the schools and 

 courses and methods have hitherto not 

 been well defined. Everything has 

 been left to the already busy teacher, 

 including choice of subject matter, 

 presentation and conduct of field work. 

 The lack of a suitable textbook has 

 been a serious handicap. To over- 

 come this was the purpose of Profes- 

 sor E. L. Moseley in preparing this 

 new nature study book. 



Trees, Stars and Birds covers three 

 phases of nature study that have a 

 perennial interest, and it contains 

 material that will make the benefit of 

 the author's long and successful ex- 

 perience available to younger teach- 

 ers. 



The author is one of the most suc- 

 cessful teachers of out-door science in 

 this country. He believes in field 

 excursions, and his text is designed to 

 help teachers and pupils in the in- 

 quiries that they will make for them- 

 selves. Approximately equal sections 

 are devoted to the three phases of the 

 subject. The topics dealt with are 

 those of most general interest. 



The text is well adapted for use in 

 junior high schools, though the pres- 



entation is simple enough for pupils 

 in the sixth grade. The book can also 

 be used to advantage by such organi- 

 zations as the Campfire Girls and the 

 Woodcraft League. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED 



The beautifully illustrated 1919 edition 

 of the catalogue of Richard Diener Com- 

 pany — gladioli specialists — of Kentfield, 

 California, has just come in. 



A booklet — "The Gladiolus Beautiful" — 

 has been put out by Howard M. Gillet, of 

 Lebanon Springs, New York, with full 

 price list for bulbs. 



"Burbank's 1919" — a catalogue of fruits, 

 flowers and various economic plants has 

 come in from Burbank's Experiment Farms, 

 Santa Rosa, California. 



The Southern Pine Association of New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, is publishing a series 

 of booklets, artistic, extremely practical 

 and well illustrated, noticeable among 

 which is one called "Beauty Plus Service 

 in Floors." 



"The Modern Gladiolus" with full de- 

 scriptions and price lists, issued by George 

 S. WoodrufT, of Independence, Iowa. 



'T' HE Augusta, Georgia, Chronicle makes 

 note of the sale of the nursery and 

 landscape business of the P.' J. Berckman's 

 Company, Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, 

 Georgia, to Mr. Sigmund Tarnok. 



NATIONAL LUMBER CONGRESS 



A NATIONAL Lumber Congress which 

 is to eclipse anything ever held before 

 in that industry has approached definite 

 form with the announcement of tentative 

 dates, probable speakers and other inter- 

 esting data. 



The Congress will be held at Chicago 

 April 14th, 15th and 16th, according to 

 Dr. Wilson Compton, Secretary-Manager 

 of the National Lumber Manufacturers 

 Association, who is busily engaged in 

 planning the details of the proposed 

 affair. It will immediately precede the 

 annual meeting of the National Associa- 

 tion on April 17th and it will take in all 

 branches of the industry in a nation-wide 

 discussion of export and domestic problems. 

 Trade Extension, Lumber Economics 

 and Logging Operations will be among the 

 subjects for the Congress, while the list 

 of speakers so far prepared includes W. 

 B. Colver, chairman of the Federal Trade 

 Commission, tariff commissioner, and B. 

 S. Cutler, chief of Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce. 



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 work preferred, but will be glad to consider 

 other lines. Can furnish the best of reference. 

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