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ing to them, trying to win their attention and allure them to 

 accept' their inheritance. I am specially discouraged over a 

 class of Christian believers who are contented to live in com- 

 parative ignorance when they live in the center of all kinship. 

 Music allures, science invites, art beckons, literature urges, 

 religion pleads, astronomy flings out her radiant beams but 

 they answer 'No, business calls me. my dinner bell rings, or I 

 must sleep, let me alone.' '' 



BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



Several years ago, G. Frederick Schwarz, author of "For- 

 est Trees and Forest Scenery" set about an investigation of 

 one of the southern pines which forms much of the forest 

 from North Carolina to Louisiana, and the results of his ob- 

 servations have recently appeared in the form of a small book 

 on the ''Long-leaf Pine in Virgin Forest" from the press of 

 John Wiley & Sons, New York. The book will be a mine of 

 information to foresters, lumbermen, and owners of southern 

 timber-lands, and is not without its value to the ordinary bot- 

 anizer who may recognize young specimens of this tree in 

 among the Christmas decorations of the Northern States. 

 Thus far, few trees have been considered of Enough impor- 

 tance to merit an entire book devoted to them. The book in- 

 cludes twenty-three illustrations from photographs, and 127 

 pages of text. The price is $1.25 net. 



Every time a new gardening book appears it seems as 

 if nobody would have the courage to write another because 

 the field is already so well occupied. Two new candidates 

 for the favor of gardeners have recently appeared, however, 

 and apparently cover new ground. The two might be called 

 companion volumes though written by different people and 

 issue by different publishers. The first is French's "The Book 

 of Vegetables" and the second Sedgwick's "The Garden Month 

 by ]\Ionth." The reviewer, who has a garden of his own. 



