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Chapters 12, 13, 1-i, and 15 deal, respectively, with coated papers, 

 with water and its importance in paper making, with the testing of 

 wood pulps, and with paper testing. 



The final chapter (16) is a brief presentation of printing and seems 

 to round out the book since it shows the practical application of what 

 has gone before. The appendix brings various tables, including one on 

 physical constants. 



In typography and general make-up the book is of the customary high 

 standard of John Wiley & Sons' publications. A. 'B. R. 



The Why and the Hoiv of Forestry in Louisiana. By R. D. Forbes, 

 Superintendent of Forestry, Department of Conservation, Louisiana. 



We are glad to have received this bulletin, issued' by the Louisiana 

 Department of Conservation, and to have a chance to review it, for we 

 like it. And we like it mainly for its ability to deal with certain facts 

 in such a way as to bring out both their meaning and their menace. 

 It sounds a clear call to the citizens of Louisiana to wake up to, and 

 cope with, the dangers of forest depletion. 



In a swift word or two, Mr. Forbes deftly shows us, first, Louisiana 

 as the early settlers received the region from the hands of Nature — - 

 a picture of boundless wealth held in the ample folds of an almost 

 unbroken forest. Then follows the hand of the Destroyer, at work; 

 and in such statements as "Already we have cut the forests from a 

 territory about half the size of the whole State," we recognize with 

 alarm the extent to which the green mantle of the past has already 

 shrunk. 



As a logical result of this calamity, the citizens of Louisiana are next 

 faced with present forest conditions and their consequences. This is 

 done, not through any mere generalizations, true, more or less, of most 

 any region, but by means of direct, concrete statements, showing facts 

 as narrowed down to their own State, and as affecting their own 

 welfare; present conditions and their consequences as felt in Louisiana 

 today. Results of forest depletion, both now and in the near future, are 

 graphically shown stalking through the State in more than one ugly 

 guise, called by name, and shown up as "Timber famine,'' "Shrinking 

 taxes," "Deserted communities and fewer jobs." Listen, to the fol- 

 lowing : 



"For example. 10 years from now, just about the time when the 

 boys and girls now going to school are going to be building homes of 



