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are apparent in manj' parts of the volume, but nowhere more con- 

 spicuously than in the opening paragraphs. The subject matter 

 is divided into three parts, The Woods, Forestry, and Related 

 Topics ; a more generous use of headings, some sort of arrange- 

 ment into chapters, would greatly help the usefulness of this vol- 

 ume, the work of one of the first foresters of the country. 



Although not intended for professional use, any forester will 

 be delighted with the clear, animated descriptions of the various 

 types of forest and woodland. But we might find fault with some 

 of the details of the author's silviculture. As we wTite the soft 

 maples and the elms are in flower, but the pods of the Black Lo- 

 cust still hang on the trees in abundance ; accordingly we fear 

 that he who waits for the pods to fall and hopes to gather them 

 the same way as those of the Honey Locust will wait long. The 

 unqualified recommendation of the use of natural regeneration 

 under shelterwood for the Eastern spruce forests will certainly 

 disturb him who knows how dubious this practice may become 

 and sees its disadvantages growing into impossibilities. 



Yet the book is a welcome addition to our as yet scant literature 

 and the errors are all in unimportant directions or in minutiae. 

 Among a mass of general readers throughout the country this 

 volume will do a great good work, and it is for these that it is 

 written. 



How to Tell the Trees. By John Gill Lemmon. Oakland, Cal., 

 1902. Pp. 66. Illustrated. Price 50 cents. 



A collection of notes on the Western coniferae, and not of the 

 extensive scope that the title would suggest. 



Hand-book of the Trees of New England. By Lorin L. Dame 

 and Henry Brooks. Ginn & Co., Boston, 1902. Pp. 196. 

 PI. Ixxxvii. 



An excellent little manual, well illustrated, which meets the 

 need of the student in the field. The trees are described sys- 

 tematically under the following sub-divisions : Habitat and 

 Range, Habit, Bark, Winter Buds and Leaves, Inflorescence, 

 Fruit, Horticultural Value. Mr. Warren H. Manning, under the 

 sub-division of Horticultural Value, contributes much desirable 

 information. In nomenclature the authors have followed Hngler 



