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discusses the original and existing forests, 

 the consumption of the forest, and the 

 various branches of this consumption. 

 Part 4 treats of the land, taking up the 

 soil, land classification, land ownership 

 and farm lands. Part 5 discusses conserva- 

 tion and mankind, the principles of con- 

 servation, the purpose of conservation, the 

 conservation of man himself, population 

 and conservation and conservation and 

 patriotism. The appendices contain the 

 declaration of governors for the conserva- 

 tion of natural resources, the declaration 

 of principles of the North American Con- 

 servation Conference, and the statement of 

 principles of the National Conservation As- 

 sociation. From this brief outline of the 

 principal heads, it may be seen how com- 

 prehensive is the book in its treatment. 

 We shall not attempt any critical examin- 

 ation of the several sections. It is suf- 

 ficient to say that they are probably the 

 most authoritative brief statements of the 

 subjects they cover that is now available 

 in book form. There are sixteen plates, 

 most of which are pictures of forestry 

 subjects or of land conditions clasely re- 

 lated to forest protection, and there are 

 twenty maps and charts. 



Finally, we should say that this book is 

 one that should be in the library of every 

 intelligent citizen who wishes to keep 

 abreast of current topics. 



The Boy With the United States Foresters. 

 By Francis Rolt-Wheeler. With thirty- 

 eight illustrations from photographs 

 taken by the U. S. Forest Service. Bos- 

 ton, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 

 1910. Pages 317. Price, $1.50 



This book, the second in the United 

 States Service series, is a boys' book on 

 somewhat new lines and one of those that 

 can be read by boys of any age from ten 

 to seventy plus. Its obvious intent, to 

 teach some of the elementary facts of 

 forestry and especially of the conditions in 

 the national forests, their relation to the 

 people and their administration, is well 

 carried out without making the book peda- 

 gogical, or interfering with the trend of 

 the story. The latter is simple enough. 

 It is an account of the experiences of a 

 young fellow of the right kind who, as a 

 preliminary to a higher technical education 

 in forestry, entered the service of the 

 United States as a forest guard. His ex- 

 periences and adventures, which are typi- 

 cal of the life of national forest officers, 

 form a chain of adventures that will hold 

 the reader's attention to the end, and it 

 will be strange if it does not make him love 

 the Service and appreciate its task and its 

 difficulties, as the author evidently in- 

 tended his readers should. The note of 

 purpose in the book, combined with an 

 interesting narrative of real life adven- 

 tures, makes it safe and wholesome read- 

 ing for any normal boy. 



Many things that need to be well under- 

 stood are very well and plainly stated, as 

 when the old ranger, a woodsman of long 

 experience, says: "Once we had to fight 

 tooth an' nail agin the forest jest to get 

 enough land to live on, an' now we've got 

 to fight jest as hard for the forest so as 

 there'll be enough of it for what we need;" 

 and again, when the supervisor, in reply 

 to Wilbur's suggestion that the telephone 

 seems to destroy some of the primitiveness 

 of the forest, says: "You don't want to 

 run into the mistake of thinking that life 

 on a national forest is principally a pic- 

 turesque performance. It's a business that 

 the government is running for the benefit 

 of the country at large. Anything that 

 can be done to make it efficient is tre- 

 mendously important. The telephone al- 

 ready has saved many a fearful night ride 

 through bad places of the forest, has been 

 the means of stopping many a fire, and 

 has saved many a life in consequence. I 

 think that's a little more important than 

 'primitiveness,' as you call it." We com- 

 mend this straightforward statement to 

 some of our congressmen who have under 

 consideration appropriations for the im- 

 provement of the national forests. 



MONTHLY LIST FOR^DECEMBER, 1910 



(Books and periodicals indexed in' the Library 

 of the United States Forest Service) 



Forestry'as'a Whole 



Encyclopedias, dictionaries and calendars 



Forst- und jagd-kalender, vol. 39, pt. 1. 134 

 p. Berlin, J. Springer, 1911. 



Proceedings of associations 



Central Provinces forest conference. Pro- 

 ceedings of a forest conference held at 

 Nagpur 23d November to 1st December, 

 1908. 133 p., pi., maps. Nagpur, GovL 

 press, 1910. 



Societe dendrologique de France. Bulle- 

 tins No. 1-14. Paris, Au siege de la 

 societe, 1906-9. 



Forest'Aesthetics 



Street and park trees 



Newark, N. J. Shade tree commission. 

 6th annual report. 33 p. Newark, 

 N. J., 1909. 



Forest'Education 



Moore. Walter M. and Jackson, Edwin R. 

 Forest nurseries for schools. 24 p., 

 il. Wash., 1910. (U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture. Farmers' bulletin 423.) 



Fore t schools 



University of Washington School of for- 

 estry. Catalogue for 1909-10. 31 p., 

 11. Olympia, Wash., Public printer. 

 1910. 



