BOOK REVIEWS 



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Coolidge in Business 

 Forester Philip T. Coolidge on July 

 1st opened an office at Bangor, Maine, for 

 the practice of forestry and will devote 

 himself to the development of the busi- 

 ness. He will specialize in management 

 and protection of woodlands, improve- 

 ment cuttings, planting, timber estimates, 

 maps and surveying. 



Mr. Coolidge graduated from Harvard 

 in 1905 and from the Yale Forest School 

 in 1906. He was employed as a Technical 

 Forester by the Forest Service in the 

 West from 1906 to 1909, the U. S. Forest 

 Service again in 1914 for examination of 

 conditions in Maine and Pennsylvania, as 

 to the possibilities of government land 

 purchase under the Weeks Law through 

 which the government is buying land for 

 forest reserves in the White Mountains 

 in New Hampshire and in the Southern 

 Appalachians. He was Professor of 

 Forestry at Colorado College from 1909 to 

 1912 and during the years 1912 and 1913 

 he was director of the Ranger School of 

 the New York State College of Forestry. 



The Zimmerman Pine Moth 

 By the simple method of using the 

 "spike-topped," lightning-struck, and gnarly 

 branched mature trees for firewood or other 

 domestic purposes, the entomologists of 

 the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture believe that the damage done by the 

 Zimmerman pine moth, especially to yellow 

 pine in the West and white, red and var- 

 ious other pines in the East, can be greatly 

 minimized. 



As a general rule, trees that below the 

 spike show branches with yellow needles 

 are almost certain to be infested. Such 

 trees, as well as lightning-struck trees 

 which remain green, and those showing 

 knobby growths on branches are likely to 

 harbor great numbers of insects to be the 

 brood trees and should be cut out and 

 burned or used for firewood before spring; 

 otherwise the moths resulting from the 

 caterpillars in these brood trees will at- 

 tack the second growth, and when a tree 

 is badly attacked the pest may kill big por- 

 tions of it besides making the lumber 

 pitchy and unsuitable for anything where 

 shrinkage is objectionable. 



If the brood trees are cut out, wood- 

 peckers, especially the hairy woodpecker, 

 will probably attend to the lighter infes- 

 tation in the young trees, as this bird has 

 been observed to feed heavily on this 

 caterpillar. This remedy is particularly 

 strongly recommended for wood lots, as 

 a number of experiments have shown that 

 by using the right trees for firewood the 

 damage is either greatly minimized or 

 absolutely controlled. 



farm at Warriors Mark, Huntington 

 County, Pa., and the elm, which was the 

 cover picture in the May issue, is owned 

 by Mrs. Montgomery, of Shippensburg, Pa. 

 Photographs of some of the, elm trees in 

 the May issue were by Nathan R. Graves, 

 84 Exchange St., Rochester, N. Y. 



Mt. Alto Forest Students 



Of the twenty-one men who took the ex- 

 aminations last week for entrance to the 

 State Forest Academy at Mont Alto, Pa., 

 fifteen have been accepted. Five 

 have been assigned to the Clearfield State 

 Forest, five to the Greenwood Forest in 

 Huntingdon County, and five to the Bu- 

 chanan Forest in Franklin County. They 

 will spend six weeks in practical woods 

 work, at the end of which an additional 

 examination will be given, and the ten 

 men with the highest standing will be ad- 

 mitted to the Academy. 



Book Reviews 



"My Home in the Field of Honour." By 

 Frances Wilson Huard. 12mo. Geo. H. 

 Doran Co., N. Y. Net. $1.35. 



This is a graphic account of civilian flight 

 before battle in this war. A woman's re- 

 treat from her beautiful home northwest of 

 Paris, and the simple but dramatic nar- 

 rative of her experiences. Frances Wilson 

 Huard (La Baronne Huard) is the wife of 

 Charles Huard, official painter of the Sixth 

 Army of France, and the daughter of 

 Francis Wilson. She has now a hospital at 

 her chateau of Villiers, and has been giving 

 talks in America in its behalf. 



"American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butter- 

 flies and Beetles." By Dan Beard. Lip- 

 pincott's, Philadelphia. Price, $2. 



Dan Beard a name to conjure with, 

 for boys has invented a new method of 

 studying natural history. The myriad ac- 

 tivities of the great Chief Scout and Pio- 

 neer of America in behalf of American 

 boys, lead naturally to this service. He 

 opens a door that will tempt every live boy 

 and his sister, as well into the fascinat- 

 ing world of natural history. Dan Beard 

 cannot see any reason for taking the pleas- 

 ures of life with long faces. If any young- 

 ster doubts that a study of this book is 

 entitled to rank as a pleasure, it is be- 

 cause he is not acquainted with the author's 

 method. It was a pleasure to Mr. Beard 

 himself from the first hour that he can re- 

 member, and he has never lost his enthu- 

 siasm, nor the power to impart it to others. 



Our Tree Pictures 



The fine White oak tree which was the 

 cover picture of the January issue of 

 American Forestry, stands on the Guyer 



"The Alligator and Its Allies." By A. M. 

 Reese. Putnam's, New York. 



Using the alligator as the type for the 

 study of the Reptilia, the book first dis- 

 cusses the classification, habits, distribution, 



etc., of the Crocodilia, with especial empha- 

 sis upon the American Alligator. Some 

 space is given to the economic aspects of 

 the group. There follow chapters dealing 

 with the anatomy of the skeletal, muscu- 

 lar, digestive, respiratory, vascular, ner- 

 vous, and urogenital systems. The con- 

 cluding chapter is a description of the 

 development of the American Alligator. 

 An extensive bibliography of works deal- 

 ing with the Crocodilia follows the de- 

 scriptive matter and is followed, in turn, by 

 an exhaustive index. The book is illus- 

 trated with 65 figures and 29 plates, many 

 of which are new, while others are taken 

 from well-known sources. 



"The Industrial and Commercial Schools of 

 the United States and Germany. A Com- 

 parative Study. By Frederick W. Ro- 

 man, Ph.D. Putnam's, New York. 



This book is offered as a basis for indus- 

 trial and commercial training, a comparison 

 of the character, quantity and quality of 

 the instruction offered in the elementary 

 school systems of the United States and 

 Germany. The grades reached by the pupils 

 before leaving the elementary schools are 

 contrasted; also the pupils' attitude toward 

 work, play, and life in general. The book 

 gives an excellent insight into the industrial 

 and commercial strength of the two nations. 



Three Sons and a Mother. By Gilbert 

 Cannon, $1.50. George H. Doran Co., 

 New York. 



This is the story of a Scotch family 

 of Margaret Keith Lawrie, who brought 

 up her three sturdy boys and two lassies 

 on a paltry 90 pounds a year. Of the 

 Lawrie boys' careers in the bustling Eng- 

 lish town of Thrisby, where their Uncle 

 Andrew offered them a "start" in his cot- 

 ton mill and then died. 



Good Old Anna. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, 

 SI. 35. George H. Doran Co., New York. 



Simple, faithful, loyal to her mistress, 

 the Minor Canon's widow in the little Eng- 

 lish cathedral town! How cruel it was 

 that the Great War had to come, that 

 this placid, industrious old servant had to 

 be made the tool of the astonishing Ger- 

 man organization. This is a subtle, con- 

 vincing picture of one of the grim phases 

 of the war. 



With the Zionists in Gallipoli. By Col. J. 

 H. Patterson, D. S. O., $2. George H. 

 Doran Co., New York. 



The Zion Mule Corps 500 officers and 

 men was the first Jewish military unit 

 formed in 2,000 years. It consisted of Rus- 

 sian-born refugees in Palestine, who, rather 

 than serve the Turks, preferred to return 

 to Egypt, the old land of bondage and later 

 to serve under the English government 

 against the Turks and Germans. 



