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larger mills, own their own timber. The ownership of the stand- 

 ing timber of the United States is thus classified by the author: 

 Government, 20% ; lumber manufacturers and heavy owners, 

 35% ; farmers and small timberland owners, 45%. 



The timber for the small mills is bought from some two or 

 three million farmers and small timber owners. A table is given 

 of the prices paid these for logs for the last two decades showing 

 that their stumpage prices have risen with the price of lumber. 

 It is claimed that the removal or reduction of the duty would de- 

 crease stumpage values and so would injure not alone the few 

 thousand large mill operators and timber owners, but likewise 

 millions of small holdings. J. H. W. 



1 

 The Book of Camping and Woodcraft. By Horace Kephart. 

 Second Edition, revised. Toronto, 1908. 323 pp. 12° . 



This is a delightfully written booklet, which every forester 

 should read, and more than that : portions of it he should know 

 by heart, or, if his memory is treacherous, he should carry it with 

 him on his camping trips, for it is filled with good practical hints, 

 recipes, etc. 



The writer is broad enough to invite judgment and choice, giv- 

 ing good and bad points of various contrivances and behavior, and 

 the whole book is pervaded by common horse sense. B. E. F. 



Waldbau auf naturgesetdicher Grundlagc. Bin Lehr- und 

 Handbuch. Von Heinrich Mayr. Berlin, 1909. Pp. 568. Price, 

 mk 15. 



This latest and most important sequel to Wagner's epoch-mak- 

 ing silvicultural volume deserves and will find a fuller review in 

 a later issue. We consider it, however, so important an accession 

 to our silvicultural literature, that we do not wish to delay its an- 

 nouncement. 



As one would expect, nearly half the stately volume is de- 

 voted to a discussion of the biological laws upon which silvicul- 

 ture rests, and this is its most important part. The second and 

 third part, besides describing the existing practices tests them in 

 the light of the biological laws developed, leading to some conclu- 

 sions at variance with the practice. 



The last six pages of the book contain the gist of the whole 



