84 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [11:2— Feb., 1915 



It is said that the German invaders of Belgium, whatever else 

 they may have destroyed, have been careful not to injure park 

 trees. The cavalrymen, so a report goes, are forbidden to tie 

 their horses to trees for fear that the animals will gnaw the bark. 

 Germany was the first nation to apply forestry on a large scale, 

 some of the crown forests having been under scientific manage- 

 ment for over a hundred years. 



The March nimiber of The Guide to Nature, Arcadia, Sound 

 Beach, Conn., will contain several pages of the most elaborate, 

 beautiful and interesting photographic illustrations of buds. 

 These are large photographs. 



Mr. M. O. Evans, superintendent of School and Home Garden 

 Work, Portland, Oregon, has been appointed Assistant State 

 Leader of County Field work for the State of Oregon. 



A movement to provide a memorial in honor ot the late I. N. 

 Mitchell, former head of the science department in the Mil- 

 waukee State Normal School, and who, in conjunction with Mrs. 

 Mitchell, for a number of years prepared the Wisconsin bird 

 studies for the Arbor Day Annual, was started by the alumni of 

 the normal school, at a meeting held in connection with the con- 

 vention of the State Teachers' Association this month. The 

 memorial will probably be in the form of an annual scholarship 

 or prize. 



Book Reviews 



Farm Life Readers, Books 4 and 5. Evans, Duncan & Duncan. 



Silver, Burdett & Co. Book 4, 344 pp., 45c. Book 5, 372 pp., 



60c. 



As the editor indicates, these books attempt to put into the 

 hands o^ the grade pupils readers dealing with subject matter that 

 has to do with the environment of the farm. We seem to have an 

 educational spasm which nothing will soothe but economically 

 valuable material. As one looks over the table of contents there 

 is a good scattering of authors' names that are familiar to the 

 student of literature, but one suspects that in the attempt to get 



