Current Literature. 3^9 



of study and the requirements for admission for the dieffrent insti- 

 tutions would be of great interest to foresters, especially in this 

 country, and would have given Mr. Stebbing's paper greater educa- 

 tional value. 



Forsten, in Woerterbuch der Volkswirtsehaft, Gustav Fischer, Jena, 

 1906. pp. 857-889. 



Prof. Dr. Jentsch, who made such a thorough study of American 

 forest conditions in the Zeitschrift fiir Forst und Jadgwesen (see 

 p. 348 of this issue), furnishes the article on Forestry for the new 

 ■edition of the excellent encyclopaedia named. He defines the word 

 Forst as Mr. Fernow has insisted the English "forest" should be 

 ^iefined, namely, as woods which are treated according to economic 

 principles. 



Faulty in an article for publication, which, from the title, sup- 

 posedly knows no territorial limits, is the lack of all information 

 regarding other than European, or, indeed, German forests. As 

 regards the latter, the information is as complete as 30 pages of 

 closely printed matter can give it, and as regards forestry practice 

 and forest politics as clear, concise and modern as can be expected 

 from the author. The literature list is especially welcome. 



The author also contributes the article Jagd. 



In Forest Land. By Douglas Malloch. American Lumberman, 

 Chicago, 1906. 



This journal is strictly devoted to professional record, and hence 

 it must be prosaic in the extreme, concerning itself only with facts, 

 and at best with professional fancies; yet it may for a moment at 

 least take cognizance of a poetic production which portrays with 

 •so much intimate understanding forest life and the incidents of a 

 lumberman's existence as does the small volume before us, collected 

 from the pages of, and republished by a supposedly still more 

 prosaic trade journal. 



To win a poetic side from the rough logger's and the uncouth 

 mill hand's surroundings is no easy matter, but the author has suc- 

 ceeded in a marked degree in places, albeit most of it is mere rhym- 

 ing. 



