BOOK REVIEWS 69 



Articles Akin to Nature-Study in January Magazines 



American Review oj Reviews — ^Alaska, a Future Empire, E. H. 

 Thomas. 



Cosmopolitan — The Shadows and John Hatch, Chas. G. D. 

 Roberts. 



Harpers — ^AustraHan Bypaths, Norman Duncan. 

 A Sub-Arctic Island, Robert C. Murphy. 



Outing — CHmbing for Caribou, Edward Breck. 

 How to Snowshoe, Dustin White. 



Technical World — Improving your Chance for Life, I. C. 

 Walch. 



News and Notes 



The Brooklyn Botanical Garden announces a most practical 

 and attractive course for teachers in School Gardening under the 

 general direction of Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, who has conducted 

 the Child's Garden page in the Garden Magazine with such suc- 

 cess. There are nine courses announced, including Elementary 

 Botany, Nature-Study, Soils and Agricultural Principles, Plant 

 Propagation, Greenhouse Work, Fungus and Insect Pests, Child- 

 ren's Garden Practice, Fall Garden Work, Pedagogy of Botany 

 and Practical Garden Work. Dr. Olive and Dr. Gager have 

 charge of the Botany courses. The tuition for the entire course 

 is fifteen dollars, which is very little considering the amount of 

 instruction given. 



Book Reviews 



The Work of the Rural Schools, J. D. Eggleston and Robert W. 

 Bruere, p. g-\- 287. Harper & Bros., $1.00. 



No previous book, in the reviewer's estimation, has given so 

 vivid an idea of the reconstruction that is going on in the rural 

 schools as does this one. The authors have been in close touch 

 with a number of the active field workers in this important move- 

 ment, both by personal acquaintance and by correspondence. 

 The pages are replete with individual experiences and excerpts 

 from letters that make the reader feel the glow of contagious 

 enthusiasm and impart to him the joy of achievement. The 



