864 The yournal of Forestry. 



matter of much interest to us at home, as well as to its numerous readers 

 throughout India. The India Forest Department has in this magazine a 

 persistent and able advocate of its policy. "With that we do not find fault, 

 but we have ample and good reasons for differing from both it and the 

 Indian Forest Department about the absurd and wasteful plan followed in 

 educating foresters to serve in India. Another Calcutta magazine of high 

 ability and great usefulness is the Indian Agriculturist, being brimful of 

 instructive information on all matters pertaining to the rural economy of 

 ludia and its dependencies. 



The Recue ties Eaux et Forets has been for many years the leading maga- 

 zine on the Forestry of France, and is always full of matter of much 

 interest and value to foresters, upon the systems of forest management 

 carried on in France and in other continental States. VEcho Forestler is 

 the special organ of the French timber trade, and conveys much useful 

 information on that subject to all who are interested in it. Spanish 

 Forestry is ably represented by the Bevista de 2Iontes, an excellent and 

 well-conducted journal, containing much useful information on forest 

 science and the forests of Spain. The Austrian magazine, Der Garten- 

 freund, treats ably of botanical, agricultural, horcicultural, and other rural 

 affairs, and is held in much esteem in that country. From Vienna we 

 also get the Handelshlatt fur WalderzeyujnissG, devoted to the wood and 

 kindred trades of the Austrian Empire; while from Krucemburk, in Bohemia, 

 comes Haj (the Forest), dealing with forestal matters in that portion of 

 the Empire. 



These European journals are only published in the language in use in 

 the respective countries, and are unfortunately inaccessible to most of our 

 readers, but to those who can peruse them they will well repay the trouble. 



Of our American exchanges too much can hardly be said in favour of 

 the wonderful amount of energy and ability displayed in their manage- 

 ment, and the practical information they impart upon all matters within 

 their scope. 



The American Agricidturist, New York, is pre-eminent for those 

 qualities on all subjects relating to rural life. The same remark applies 

 to the Albany Country Gentleman, N.Y., in more strictly rural affairs. 

 The Mississippi Vallei/ Liomherman and Manufacturer is a valuable 

 journal, conducted with marked ability, in the interest of the timber 

 limits and lumber trade of the far west ; this paper being published 

 at Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota. The Gardener s Monthly, 

 Philadelphia, is an eminent horticultural authority ; the American Farmer, 

 Baltimore, and the Lancaster Farmer, Pennsylvania, are also ably devoted 

 to the agriculturist interest ; and the Manufacturer and Builder, New 

 York, ably represents the engineering, chemical, and constructive arts in 

 the United States. 



To the editors and proprietors of these, and the many other periodicals 

 which we receive, our best thanks are due for their valued and kindly 

 exchanges. 



