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Nature's Serial Story. By Edward P. Roe. 

 New York City: Dodd, Mead and Com- 

 pany. 

 The article by Miss Mary A. Roe on 

 California insects in our number for Juh' 

 delighted many of our readers who are 

 pleased to learn that she is continuing the 

 work of the naturalist so well exempliiied 

 a generation ago by her brother, the late 

 Edward P. Roe. "Nature's Serial Storv." 

 was welcomed as having the charm of a 

 new discovery or of a new land, and though 

 the book' has for years been read and re- 

 read, it will come to any nature lover as a 

 charming portrayal of outdoor life. Wc 

 cordially recommend it to our readers. 



Success With Sm.^ll Fruits. By Edward 

 P. Rowe. New York City: Dodd, Mead 

 and Company. 

 More recent books may brine- the sub- 

 ject more nearly in accord with the later in- 

 vestigations in horticulture, but no other 

 book can incite in a more charming spirit 

 a love for the cultivation of small fruits. 

 The volume was originally published a gen- 

 eration ago, but we call attention to it now 

 on account of the general interest aroused 

 in the author by the publication of his 'lis- 

 ter's article in a recent number of The 

 Guide to Nature. 



The Home .Acre. Bv Edward P. Roe. New 

 York Citv: Dodd. Mead and Companv. 

 A notice of this book is given for the same 

 reason that induces us to recommend other 

 books bv the late E. P. Roe. This. "The 

 Home Acre." contains valuable suggestions 

 and is practically a continuation or an ex- 

 tension of the book on small fruits. It re- 

 lates to the garden, the kitchen garden, the 

 vinevard: to the raspberrv, the currant, the 

 strawberry, and others. One never tires of 

 reading these charming volumes. Thev are 

 written preeminently in the right spirit. 



Shells of L\nd and Water. Bv Frank Col- 

 lins Baker. Chicago, Illinois: A. W. 

 Mumford. Publisher. Price $2.50. 

 The shells in the ponds and streams and 

 the creatures that inhabit those shells are 

 seldoni observed rarely understood, and 

 are often considered too trivial for serious 

 contemplation, yet they comprise a mar- 

 vellously interesting field for nature study. 



Professor Frank Collins Baker is an 

 acknowledged technical authority, yet 

 in this book he shows his sympathetic in- 

 terest in the subject and his ability to aid 

 tlie beginner. 



A New Mineralogical Magazine. 



We welcome the establishment of a 

 new mineralogical magazine, "The 

 American Mineralogist," published by 

 Robert Rosenbaum, 605 South Third 

 Street. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 

 subscription is a dollar and a half per 

 year ; single copy, fifteen cents. The 

 editor is Wallace Goold Levison, as- 

 sisted by Edgar T. Wherry, Samuel G. 

 Gordon and W^ Scott Lewis. 



Our readers will recall that i\Ir. Ar- 

 thur Chamberlain for many years pub- 

 lished "The Mineral Collector," that 

 magazine being merged into Tiii'; 

 Guide to NaturiC in April, 1909, and 

 there continued as a department oc- 

 casionally although most of the mate- 

 rial desired by the real workers in min- 

 eralogy is too technical or of too limited 

 a general interest for a magazine of the 

 character of The Guide to N.\ture. 

 We shall therefore continue to publish 

 matter of popular interest along the 

 line of mineralogy with more or less 

 of regularity, l)ut we recognize the fact 

 that such publication does not meet the 

 reciuirements of the mineralogist but is 

 useful in bringing new recruits to the 

 field. Those that The Guide to N.a- 

 TURE interests in the subject we feel 

 sure will continue as students along 

 the more technical lines of "The Ameri- 

 can Mineralogist."' Those of us who 

 have had experience know somewhat 

 of the wonderful beauties and fascina- 

 tions of minerals. l)ut the fact remains 

 that they form one of the most difficult 

 fields of nature study in which to in- 

 terest the general student. Every one 

 who goes afield cannot fail to admire 

 some aspect of the mineral kingdom or 

 be attracted by some particular speci- 

 men, but it is equally true that it is dif- 

 ficult to develu]) that general interest 

 into specific study. It appears that a 

 real interest in minerals requires more 

 than the characteristic of a student. 



