THE BOOK SHELF 



Our Trees, How to Know Them. Arthur J. Emerson and Clarence M. Weed, 

 new revised edition, 295 pages, 149 illustrations. J. P. Lippincott. 

 $3.50 net. 

 For several years the editor has used this book with great satisfaction when 

 studying trees with her nature-study classes; it has the great advantage of 

 showing the leaves, blossoms, and the fruit of each tree approximately natural 

 size, and the form of the tree reduced, all made from photographs taken directly 

 from the natural objects, a full page plate being devoted to each tree species. 

 The text is clear, interesting, and to the point. In this new revised edition 

 about twenty pages of new material have been added and eleven extra illus- 

 trations. It is a beautiful, useful and attractive volume and is a very- practical 

 aid to one who wishes to become acquainted with our native trees. 



The New Voter. Charles Willis Thompson. 349 pages. G. P. Putnam & 

 Sons. $1.50. 

 To the beginning voter, of which there will be many in New York State this 

 fall, this volume will prove most enlightening. It is not merely a manual of 

 civil government; in every chapter there is a keen discussion by two women, 

 the husband of one, a politician and a Washington correspondent, the women 

 asking the questions and the men replying according to their experience and 

 ability. Every one of the twenty-eight chapters makes interesting and racy 

 reading, being full to the brim of just the information which the new voter needs 

 concerning the different departments of our government, and how they are 

 actually, not theoretically, carried on. The book is certainly well fitted to do 

 what its author hopes for in the Foreword: "This book is written for those 

 who being new to the ballot wish to do their part to make politics good instead 

 of bad." It is a volume that should be read carefully by every woman voter in 

 this state before the 4th of November. 



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