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of the book is enhanced by excellent bibliographies at the close 

 of each chapter. The volume is thoroughly enjoyable and intelli- 

 gible to the lay reader who is not a trained psychologist. 



Rolf in the Woods, by Ernest Thompson Seton, Doubleday 

 Page & Co., pages XV plus 437, $1.75. 



This book describes the adventures of a boy scout during 

 the war of 1812. The intention is not so much to impart historical 

 information, although that is accomplished, as it is to familiarize 

 the lad with wood-lore. It seems to the reviewer quite the best 

 book that Thompson Seton has yet written along popular lines. 

 The story is fascinating; the sketches of the life history of 

 animals come in naturally and without that obtrusiveness which 

 is almost necessary when an animal is taken as the hero. No 

 boy can read it without being impelled to the woods and nearby 

 fields to play at scout and watch the wild things of his own lo- 

 calitv. 



The Land We Live In, The Boy's Book of Conservation, by 

 Overton W. Price, Small, Maynard & Co., Boston, pages 243, 

 $1.50. 



This book is • illustrated with 136 reproductions of photo- 

 graphs, all of which are excellent, so that it may be read by its 

 pictures almost as well as by the text. The author's intention 

 is indicated in the title of the book. The forests, the farms, the 

 minerals and the rivers are discussed in simple and interesting 

 ways so that boy or girl will read it with pleasure, and the author 

 always has in mind suggestions of ways in which even a child ma}^ 

 help in the conservation of the natural resources. 



Animal Intelligence by Edward L. Thorndike. pages 207. 

 the McMillan Company, $1.60. 



This book reports a series of experiments on cats. dogs, 

 chickens and monkeys conducted by Dr. Thorndike, and discusses 

 the bearing of the results on animal behavior and the evolution 

 of the animal intellect. The opening chapter is on consciousness 

 and behavior, then follows a long chapter, 135 pages, on the 

 experimental study of association processes. Chapter \', 6S 

 pages, is devoted to the mental life of the monkeys. Dr. Thorn- 



