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Caribou ^ligration in Newfoundland." It is an excellent example 

 of what a sportsman can accomplish with a camera. It repre- 

 sents the achievement of six years of effort, five fruitless, one 

 finally successful. The admirable pictures are so infinitely su- 

 perior to the caricatures that illustrate so many books on animal 

 life, pictures of an animal first killed by a rifle and then photo- 

 graphed either as a carcass or stiffly-posed in a propped-up 

 attitude. Speaking of the caribou, he says, "The leads or roads 

 which they follow have been in use year after year, perhaps for 

 hundreds or thousands of years, for in many places deep fur- 

 rows are worn in the rocks by the hoofs of the countless 

 thousands.'' There are suggestive chapters on methods in bird 

 and animal photography and on camping out. 



Biology, an Introductory Study. By Herbert W. Conn. 

 Pages X+425, Silver, Burdett & Co.' 



This book seems like almost an ideal text to put into a high 

 school course. It gives in an entertaining way, at the same time 

 with scientific accuracy, the main themes of modern biology. 

 One misses with gratitude the stereotyped morphological treat- 

 ment of plants and animals, — the customary university and col- 

 lege course suitably attenuated for high school purposes. Direc- 

 tions are given for laboratory work on a few types studied and 

 the attempt is to present the reactions and functions of the 

 organisms and to point out the chief applications to human prob- 

 lems both social and industrial. Dr. Conn is to be congratulated 

 on his ability to exclude the non-essentials. 



Plant and Animal Children and How They Grozv. By Ellen 

 Torrele. 230 pages. D. C. Heath & Co. 



This book is written especially for the pupils of the ele- 

 mentary schools. It aims to make clear the ideas of evolution, 

 heredity, variation, effect of environment, and the evolution of 

 sex, without once mentioning these names. In this it is a de- 

 parture from that tradition in education which has held that 

 such ideas are the exclusive prerogative of the college-bred. 

 There is no doubt that children are greatly interested in the study 

 of plant and animal life and are quite able to comprehend the 

 subject matter of botany and zoology, as the author states in 

 her preface, but it is quite questionable how much the average 

 teacher will be able to get out of the class with this book as a 

 text discussing such forms as the green algae, fungae, marchantia 

 and its reproduction, amoeba and its allies, hydra, etc. The work 



