250 Forestry Quarterly. 



It may be that sooner or later the rapid development of the West 

 may require that at least statistics of avalanches be kept. 



Max Rothkugel. 



Forestry in New Bngland. By Ralph C. Hawley and Austin F. 

 Hawes, New York; John Wiley & Sons. 1912. Pp. 749. Illus- 

 trated. 



It is fitting that the first general treatise on practical forestry 

 to be published in this country should apply specifically to New 

 England, for it was there that the art found its strongest sup- 

 porters when it was new in this country as it is there that the 

 opportunity for the practice of forestry is matched by that in 

 no other section. With this important working field and a volume 

 of information not available for any other region it is yet un- 

 fortunate that the authors have made so bulky a book. If it 

 were half the size it would be proportionately more valuable, for 

 in these days everybody wants his technical treatise, as well as 

 his lighter reading, condensed to the last degree, and it is evi- 

 dent that this work could have been greatly abbreviated with- 

 out loss of substance. 



As the authors say in their preface, the book "aims to be for 

 the woodland owner what many others are for the agriculturist." 

 In this it clearly fulfills its purpose; technical foresters know, 

 or should know, how to supply any deficiency from their point 

 of view. 



Part I, General Forestry, gives an admirable review of accepted 

 principles. Even a layman would have no difficulty in applying 

 them to a much wider territory than New England. The work 

 avoids the fault of so many German books in that, avowedly 

 dealing with a section in which conditions are practically uniform, 

 it makes no effort to deduce general laws or rules of practice 

 from local observations. New England is distinctly a forest 

 region, and one may safely prophesy that through forestry the 

 land will ultimately be brought to its highest productiveness. 

 And this expectation loses no force when other parts of the 

 country with more favorable climate are named in comparison, 

 for nearby markets and manifold resort interests will neutra- 

 lize any disadvantage of that kind. 



