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The pamphlet is one which was originally got out for the United 

 States Bureau of Education by the National Board of Fire Under- 

 writers as a fire prevention manual for the school children of America. 

 New Jersey has simply adopted this manual and added a chapter on 

 forest fires prepared by State Fire Warden C. P. Wilber. In this 

 way forest fire prevention will be brought to the direct attention of 

 every school child in the State of New Jersey from now on. Mr. 

 Wilber is entitled to great credit for the way he made use of the 

 opportunity presented by the enactment of this law in New Jersey. 



The two other publications are also from Mr. Wilber's pen and are 

 both highly commendable. "Fighting Forest Fires" presents in a 

 very simple straightforward way, which can be readily understood by 

 the average man or woman, how they can best go about suppressing 

 any forest fire which may come to their attention. It presents in 

 logical sequence the general situation with reference to forestry in the 

 State and its dependence upon the control of fires, what the most 

 common causes of fires are, what principal features the forest fire 

 law covers, how the forest fire service is organized and operates, after 

 which the subject of fires themselves is very carefully considered in 

 its numerous details. The publication is further noteworthy because 

 of the particularly appropriate illustrations. These in themselves tell 

 a running story, closely paralleling the text. "Fires for Fun," as its 

 title indicates, presents the subject of camp fires from the angle of 

 every type of pleasure seeker who journeys to the woods for an outing. 

 This publication is noteworthy for its illustrations also, which of them- 

 selves are of such a character as to carry conviction without the use of 

 any other text than the legends accompanying them. They are, fur- 

 thermore, unusual in that they are not photographs of camp scenes 

 which approximate the conditions which it is desired to portray, but 

 are sketches prepared on a well-thought-out plan which illustrates 

 more clearly than any photograph possibly could the point which it 

 is aimed to drive home. 



L. S. M. 



The Fimgal Diseases of the Common Larch. By W. E. Hiley, 

 M. A., School of Forestry, Oxford, Eng. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 

 Pp. 1-204. figs. 73. 1919. 



Hiley's Fungal Diseases of the Common Larch is a monograph that 

 was initiated by a special investigation on the larch canker. Two 



