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REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and 
Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters. 
By Joun Nispet, D.CEc., formerly Conservator of Forests, 
Burma, Author of ‘Burma under British Rule,’ ‘ British 
Forest Trees,’ ‘Studies in Forestry,’ ‘Our Forests and 
Woodlands,’ etc., and Editor of the Sixth Edition of 
‘The Forester’ by the late James Brown, LL.D. Wm. 
Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1905. 2 Vols. 
Price 42s. net. 
“ Although based on the sixth edition of Zhe Forester (1894), 
the book now published is in reality a new work, in which is 
incorporated, in a condensed and improved form, the essence 
of all the other books I have written on Forestry during the 
last thirteen years, together with much original matter, dealing 
specially with conditions in the United Kingdom.” 
Dr Nisbet thus unreservedly accepts responsibility for Zhe 
Forester of 1905, at least so far as the main text is concerned, 
in his Preface to the book. One has to confess to a feeling 
of regret that Zhe Forester of Brown has disappeared for ever, 
and that the teachings of Brown, M‘Gregor and M‘Corquodale 
are now of the past. Those leaders in arboriculture did their 
best according to their lights, and undoubtedly they left their 
mark on our woods and forests, for good or ill as the circum- 
stances declare; but while British Arboriculture is second to 
none, our ideas of Sylviculture are still vague indeed. That the 
stupendous task accomplished by Dr Nisbet in the production 
of the present work may have the desired effect in improving 
our knowledge of sylviculture will be the wish of all who 
have the welfare of our land at heart. 
The work consists of two volumes, and each volume is 
divided into three parts, the first volume containing the 
Introduction, The British Sylva, and Sylviculture, and the 
second the Protection of Woodlands, The Management and 
Valuation of Woodlands, and The Utilisation of Woodland 
Produce. 
The introductory part extends to one hundred pages, and it 
