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formal treatment of the forest, a penetration to the bottom of the 

 basic principles of silviculture and the relation between particular 

 practices and the results produced, and finally directions and 

 advice based on all these things. And what goes far to further 

 make the book an agreeable and ingratiating companion is the 

 enthusiasm and love for the forest and for the beauties of nature 

 which permeate it. 



It is to be hoped and there is reason for anticipating that the 

 immediate practical effect will be that more attention will be 

 devoted to natural regeneration than heretofore and to the for- 

 mation of uneven-aged, mixed stands. That such is locally possi- 

 ble and is necessary to maintain and advance the productivity of 

 the forest is sentiment which like a golden thread, runs through 

 all discussions of silviculture and their journalist reviewers. 



The second section of the book treats of the woods as a 

 monitor in the realm of industry and sociology. Here even more 

 than in the first section the reader feels himself carried off his 

 feet on the hobby of this genius, who as he looks out of his quiet 

 Pomeranian forest lodge sees every thing, his fellows, his country 

 and the whole political and business world, through the trees of 

 his selection forest. Diiesberg advocates in business and in 

 government a harmony borrowed from his ideal forest, takes up 

 the cudgels against individualism and the undue emphasis given 

 to selfishness under the capitalistic regime, and constructs a new 

 business and social order mainly on physiocratic bases, though 

 in part on land reforms. He would emphasize and advance ser- 

 vice as fundamental and reduce capital's income from industry by 

 heavy taxation, employing productively the means thus made 

 available. Diiesberg had already set forth these ideas in a small 

 (brochure, "Reform in Taxation and Administration for the 

 German Empire" (1905) — a pamphlet which has attracted little 

 attention. It is a glowing picture he paints of a state of society 

 where equal opportunities are afforded each one, yet the whole is 

 securely held intact by a genuinely German aristocratic view of 

 life. Only too gladly would we follow the enthusiastic and in- 

 spiring teacher of these doctrines ! Even if the hard-headed, 

 matter-of-fact reader balks at following he will unreservedly give 

 assent to the closing sentences. "The ideas and proposals here 

 developed may seem too ambitious to many, and many of the 

 opinions may seem too incisive, but they are sprung from sincere 

 convictions. There is no taint of servile-mindedness." 



