REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. II9 



aspect of this subject. Naturally, insect pests occupy an im- 

 portant place; and the coloured plates, which accompany Dr 

 Eckstein's account, add greatly to the value of the text-book. 

 From these plates, which are exceptionally good, it is possible to 

 recognise at a glance the principal forest insects. 



The part of the book which the majority of foresters will 

 regard as the most important is that upon silviculture, by 

 Schwappach. All matters connected with soil and climate in 

 their relation to tree-growth ; the establishment of woods by 

 planting, sowing, and natural regeneration; the thinning of 

 plantations and the treatment of the most important forest trees, 

 are dealt with in this section. There is a useful chapter upon 

 the fungi which attack trees, and the protection of woods against 

 these and other dangers is fully gone into. Divisions of the 

 book, treating of such subjects as the demarcation of boundaries, 

 and regulations affecting the insurance of forest workmen, will 

 have less interest for British foresters ; but it would be most 

 ungrateful to grumble at the small proportion of what may 

 appear to some of us to be superfluous matter, because the book, 

 as a whole, is so full of concise, reliable information. 



To those who can read German, the book can be thoroughly 

 recommended as a safe compendium — a short treatise dealing 

 scientifically and technically, but not too minutely, with practic- 

 ally every aspect of economic forestry. That a third edition of 

 the book should be required in less than nine years after the 

 publication of the first edition is itself a proof of the book's 

 popularity. In the new edition every subject has been brought 

 up to date, and besides being considerably enlarged, the book 

 has been much improved by the re-writing of the more important 

 parts. A so-called " Repetitorium " accompanies the text-book, 

 and will be found serviceable to students of forestry. 



F. S. 



Schlich's Afamml of Forestry. Vol. V. " Forest Utilisation." By 

 W. R. Fisher, M.A. 2nd Edition, xxii + 833 pp., with 

 numerous Illustrations and an Index. Bradbury, Agnew 

 and Co. 12s. net. 



In his Preface the author states that this work, like the first 

 edition, follows the general lines of Karl Gayer's well-known 



