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Patch is very adroit in her lessons on conservation of bird and 

 plant life, but is none the less effective. The illustrations by 

 Robert J. Spi are pen and ink drawings and are very true and 

 attractive. The last pages of the volume are given to notes on 

 the stories and references and a very valuable book list on birds 

 which includes also bulletins and leaflets which gives the volume 

 special value. It is a book which should be in the library of 

 every child in America. 



Human Geography J. Russell Smith, Ph. D. Professor of Eco- 

 nomic Geography, Columbia University. Book 1, Peoples and 

 Cotmtries, 370 pp, illustrated. John C. Winston Company. 



This volume is meant for foiuth, fifth and sixth grades and is 

 indeed a human geography. The editor of this magazine graduat- 

 ed from sixth grade many long years ago, but she read this vol- 

 ume at a sitting and found it as interesting as a novel; and when 

 through, she experienced a new and delightful sensation of in- 

 timacy with this earthly ball that has upon its surface so many 

 kinds of geography and climate and therefore also so many kinds 

 of people living in such diverse ways and occupied with such diverse 

 activities. Where does the Eskimo live? To answer this ques- 

 tion there is given a delightful account of the Eskimo's snowhouse, 

 his children, their clothing, their food, their fishing and their 

 dogs. Where does the Bedouin live? To answer this is given a 

 thrilling account of the life of Hakim, an Arab boy and inciden- 

 tally the story of his tribe that pitch their tents and feed their 

 flocks on the desert's edge. How all of the great industries of 

 the world are carried on, where the raw material comes from and 

 the manufactured material goes to are described in chapters 

 that hold the attention from start to finish. Especial stress is 

 put upon the industries of our own great coimtry. Five hundred 

 illustrations, each picture one that tells a story, add greatly to 

 the beauty and usefulness of the book. All the maps are good 

 and convincing; moreover, an explanation is given as to how 

 maps are made. We confess that we lingered long over some 

 colored pictures of our earth as seen by the man in the moon. 

 They will do much to counteract certain assertions recently made 

 by supposedly intelligent people that the earth is flat. We hope 

 that every fourth to sixth grader in our great land will have the 



