PERIODICAL LITERATURE 569 



Kham describes at length the manufacture of 

 Walnut from rifle butts for the Ishapore Rifle Factory, and 

 British India shows clearly that these butts can be supplied 

 from Indian forests. On account of the shortage 

 of black walnut in the United States, this is of interest to walnut manu- 

 facturers, and inquiries should be addressed to the Forest Economist, 

 Dehra Dun, British India. T. S. W., Jr. 



Indian Forester. Vol. 45, pp. 440-444. 



POLITICS, EDUCATION, AND LEGISLATION 



In these days of keen interest in matters of 

 Forest forest policy a lengthy article on this subject by 



Policy a recognized English authority is of more than 



passing interest to American foresters. 



The author, R. L. Robinson, deals with the subject in three parts : 

 (a) The pre-war development of English forest policy, (b) The war 

 and forestry, (c) Attempts to ascertain the guiding principles now 

 struggling to gain expression in reshaping English forest policy. 



As an explanation of the deplorable condition of forestry in Great 

 Britain at the outbreak of the war the author ventures the statement 

 that the Anglo-Saxon race is not instinctively a nation of foresters. 

 It is a rather severe arraignment for an English forester when he states 

 "It is an undeniable fact that the Anglo-Saxon race is not instinctively 

 a race of foresters in the modern sense," and to offer this as an ex- 

 planation of the progress of forestry in English speaking nations as 

 contrasted with that of Continental Europe. The reviewer believes 

 that differences in economic condition and industrial development have 

 quite as much or more to do with the shaping of forest policy than 

 racial traits. Is it not possible that the democratic institutions which 

 hitherto have been most characteristic of Anglo-Saxons lend themselves 

 less successfully to forest conservation? Were Great Britain an inland 

 nation like Germany instead of a seafaring people with ships on every 

 sea would racial traits have been effective in checking forestry de- 

 velopment ? 



Of English speaking races the author credits the United States as 

 perhaps the foremost advanced. He points to the Imperial Forest 

 Service of India as the only bright spot in the British Empire so far 

 as forestry is concerned. 



It is quite evident from this article that the early policy pursued by 

 Great Britain as well as her colonies was the ruthless employment of 



