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tor nothing or for the glory of serving so eminent a man. 



As a matter of fact the bookseller has a living to make and 



depends upon bringing author and publisher together to do 



it. He knows of hundreds of possible purchasers for each 



work, but unless he is repaid for his time, trouble and for 



liis investment in postage, advertising, catalogues, rent and 



the like, he will simply ignore the new volume, however 



meritorius it may be, and devote his efforts to selling books 



in which there is a profit for him. A number of botanists 



arc fooling themselves into believing that they can sell as 



many copies of their' books as can the experienced publisher. 



To advertise that no discount is allowed is simply to call 



attention to one's inexperience. In all phases of existence, 



it i.s better to play the game according to the rules. That is 



what the rules are for ! 



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Sooner or later, each Commonwealth in our Nation arises 

 lo the patriotic duty oi taking account of its trees. Indiana 

 (H(l this in 1911 by issuing ten thousand copies of "The Trees 

 of Indiana." by Charles C. Deam. In less than three years 

 the ecHtion was exhausted and another of a thousand copies 

 went the same way in five days. This induced Mr. Deam, 

 who is State Forester, to plan a new and larger work and this 

 has now appeared as a revised edition of the original volume, 

 though the book has l)een entirely re-written. Indiana has 

 been particularly fortunate in the selection of a Forester. 

 Instead of sitting in his office and trying to imagine trees, 

 Deam has gone out after them. Since the first edition of his 

 book was published he has travelled more than 27,000 miles 

 in the State by auto, visiting every county and nearly every 

 township. He may be said to really know the trees though 

 tha Reviewer thinks he knows of one that he missed. This, 



