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and paper (42 pages), tanning material (20), veneers (26), slack 

 cooperage (28), tight cooperage (22), naval stores (24), hardwood 

 distillation (36), softwood distillation (10), charcoal (13), boxes and 

 box shooks (15), cross ties (36), poles and piling (27), posts (4), 

 mine timbers (6), fuelwood (15), shingles and shakes (23), maple 

 syrup and sugar (27), rubber (13), dye woods and material (10), ex- 

 celsior (9), cork (11). 



This book should prove of especial value for reference purposes, 

 being well designed for this use. Each chapter is a unit, and, with the 

 exception of the first, is concerned with a single industry, thus making 

 the subject matter readily available without recourse to the exhaustive 

 index. The presentation is logical and explicit. The work may be 

 considered authoritative, since it is based not only on the author's own 

 investigations and field studies but has also, in large part, been passed 

 upon by various specialists and practical operators. 



From this book the reader can learn of the development and impor- 

 tance of each industry, the kinds and source of the raw material, the 

 processes of manufacture, the equipment and operating forces needed, 

 costs of operation, and suggestions for reducing waste. There is also a 

 wealth of statistcial data, tables and miscellaneous information. The 

 illustrations are well chosen and add very materially to the clearness 

 of the text. 



From the preface one infers that this book was designed primarily 

 a? a text for use in the forest schools. The reviewer feels that it does 

 not fully meet the needs of a general text, partly because of its arrange- 

 ment and more especially because it covers only a portion (a somewhat 

 indeterminate portion) of the field. 



The author says : "It is impossible to include in a work of this kind 

 some of the wood-using industries which are closely associated with 

 lumber and its uses, such as furniture industry, shipbuilding and car 

 construction, etc., because they belong in a separate category." The 

 basis for the statement is not entirely clear and one gets the impression 

 that the choice of subjects, as well as their sequence of treatment, was 

 largely arbitrary. As a case in point, what is the reason for including 

 boxes and box shooks in a treatise on "forest products other than 

 lumber?" And why omit handles, matches, spools, etc., and discuss 

 excelsior, which consumes only a third as much wood as handles do ? 



In ihe reviewer's opinion, the purpose as a general textbook would 

 have been better served by covering the whole field of indigenous forest 

 products other than lumber. This could have been done in a volume 

 little if any larger than the present one by condensing the material a 



