CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Logging. The Principles and general methods of operation 

 in the United States. By R. C. Bryant, F. E., M. A. John Wiley 

 and Sons, New York. 1913. Pp. 590. 8 vo. Price $3.50. 



This stately and unique volume is a most welcome and much 

 needed addition to our forestry literature. It is the product of a 

 man who holds the unique position of a scientific specialist in the 

 limited field which the title of the book describes, namely, that of 

 Professor of Lumbering in the Forest School of Yale University. 

 It is worthy of note that he is also the first graduate from an 

 American forest school (Cornell), having gone forth into prac- 

 tical life with the beginning of the century, for 10 years gathering 

 experience in the Philippines and various parts of the United 

 States, preparing for his specialty. 



The book is dedicated to the Members of the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association, through the generous contribu- 

 tions of which the professorship at Yale was made possible. 



The book is frankly written as a textbook, but will be welcome 

 to many a logger as a reference book, and, while we have called 

 the subject limited, it appears that on the 590 pages only the 

 more important features have been covered, leaving out a de- 

 scription of the innumerable variations in equipment and method 

 which are peculiar to different forest regions, although a chapter 

 is devoted to a general description of them. Altogether, the vol- 

 ume is the most complete single source of information in regard 

 to this specifically American line of business. It is written in 

 clear language, which, as there is necessarily much description, 

 is an important matter. Each chapter is accompanied by a note 

 on the bibliography of the subject of the chapter, which permits 

 ready extension of its study. 



The work is divided into six parts, comprising twenty-six chap- 

 ters. The introduction or general part discusses on 44 pages 

 very briefly the stand and ownership of timberlands ; stand, own- 

 ership, present cut and prices of commercial timbers ; problems 

 of protection of forest property ; and financing operations by 

 timber bonds, — the relation of which to the main subject is rather 



