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sition are pointed out. The author states that all that appears to be 

 wanting- is a plan of campaign and a favorable hearing from the gov- 

 ernment. He is convinced that a great national planting scheme must 

 be undertaken and carried out by the government. It is impossible to 

 forecast the future, but the demand for timber most likely will be 

 greater and the prices higher than at present. It rests with this genera- 

 tion to say whether they will leave their posterity to face an even worse 

 position than that of today. He believes the only safe course to follow 

 is to undertake at once the planting up of such available waste lands as 

 are obviously capable of growing a good, marketable crop of timber. 



The following methods of national afforestation are considered by 

 the author, any one of which should produce satisfactory results, given 

 a correct choice of method for a particular locality and efficient man- 

 agement : 



(a) The lease and afforestation of waste lands by government, the 

 proprietor sharing in the expenses and profits. 



(b) The lease and afforestation of waste lands by government. 



(c) The purchase and afforestation of waste lands by government. 

 Part I closes with a discussion of finance, planting methods, and 



available labor. 



Part II discusses the British timber supplies and the forests of Rus- 

 sia. The writer contends that after the war Great Britain must turn to 

 Russia, even more than at present, for the greater part of her major 

 timber supplies. Furthermore, he insists that instead of securing the 

 needed supplies from hand-to-mouth, the policy of Great Britain should 

 be to make definite arrangements by which timber supplies during the 

 next 40 or 50 years may be insured. In 191 3 Great Britain received 35 

 per cent of her timber imports from Russia, but after the war Russia 

 will be about the only country with forest resources of timber that will 

 be available and reasonable in price. The author suggests the possible 

 leasing by Great Britain of large areas of Russian timber. 



Part III is concerned with present timber supplies and the war and 

 Part IV with the future employment of women in forestry, due to the 

 great loss of men in the war. 



The book as a whole is a stirring and convincing argument for better 

 forestry in Great Britain. 



J. W. T. 



