Book Reviews 



The IVilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands. E>y 

 Charles- Sheldon. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Pages 

 XM+$6, $2.00. 



Th|| is a narrative of experiences while exploring and hunt- 

 ing foril^apati, caribou and bear on the large islands off the 

 coast o'i British Columbia and Alaska. The sportsman will find 

 some thrilling tales, especially of the bear hunts, but the natural- 

 ist will be charmed mostly by the excellent descriptions of the 

 country and the splendid photographs that illustrate the book. 

 The nature lover will appreciate this sentiment. 'T was again 

 installed in the wilderness; a sense of deep contentment stole 

 over me as I sat looking out on the calm water of the beautiful 

 bay. . . . The feeling of freedom cast a soothing spell over 

 me as I fell asleep that night while rain-drops were pattering 

 against the canvas,'' 



A Laboratory Manual of Agriculture for Secondary Schools. 

 By Leland E. Call and E. G. Schafer, both of Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College. The Macmillan Co. Pages XIV+344. $0.90. 



This seems a very serviceable manual of directions for actual 

 work in the elements of scientific agriculture. Some 65 pages 

 are given to soils, 20 to germination, 84 to studies of corn, rye, 

 barley, etc., 50 pages to stock judging. A few pages are de- 

 voted to the plow and corn planter. The exercises are arranged 

 seasonally. Blank pages are provided for notes and records and 

 score cards are printed to be filled in by the student. The chap- 

 ter on tree identification might as well be omitted. It simply 

 tells the pupil to go to the park or woods and identify all species 

 possible. It makes no suggestions of books to be used or other 

 aids to identification. 



Wild Life and the Camera. By A. Radclyffe Dugmore. J. 

 B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 332 pages. 



Those who know Dugmore's previous volumes will antici- 

 pate that there will be some charming sketches of bird life in 

 this one. "l\Iy Chickadee Friends'' and ''The Warbler Family'' 

 are chapter titles of bits of description quite as good as anything 

 Dugmore has done. But this book oversteps the bounds of bird- 

 land and we have results of camera studies of larger game and 

 of some game fish. The record of what the author evidently 

 regards as his chief achievement is given under the title of "The 



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