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of the methods pursued in New Jersey and 

 elsewhere in road building and the materials 

 used. There is also a text of the road laws, 

 and methods of assessing taxes for road-build- 

 ing funds. 



Handbook on Linear Perspective, Shadows, and 

 Reflections. By OTTO FUCHS, Director of 

 Maryland Institute Schools of Art and 

 Design, Baltimore, Md., and formerly Pro- 

 fessor of Drawing at the United States 

 Naval Academy. Published by Ginn & 

 Co., Boston. Pp. 44, plates 13. Price, 

 | i. 25. 



This is a comprehensive and concise treatise 

 on perspective drawing and should prove valua- 

 ble to both teacher and student, and to artistr 

 generally. The explanations are simple yet 

 clear, and the plates and problems follow logic- 

 ally the consecutive steps through which the 

 book develops the subject. A particular ad- 

 vantage is the arrangement of the plates, which 

 are double-page size and are placed loose in a 

 small portfolio in the back, so that they may 

 be used side by side with the explanatory text. 

 A study of this work should fix in one's mind 

 the principles on which the whole theory of 

 perspective is based. 



Forty-fifth Annual Report of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society of Missouri. Published by the 

 State Printer, Jefferson City, Mo. Pp. 416. 

 Illustrated from photographs. 

 This report contains the usual list of officers 

 of the society and the accounts of the meetings 

 held during 1902, one in June at Eldon, and one 

 in December at Springfield. At these meetings 

 valuable papers were read on ornamental and 

 fruit trees, flowers, and vegetables. There is 

 some attention paid to forestry and irrigation, 

 and in addition to the work done in the state 

 there are incorporated with the report a number 

 of extracts from authoritative sources. An 

 interesting report on the growing of strawber- 

 ries under irrigation tells of a six and eight fold 

 increase in yield, with better quality of berries, 

 though they ripen a few days later. To the 

 practical horticulturist of Missouri the book 

 should have considerable value. 



Annual Report of the State Geologist of New 

 Jersey for the year 1902. Accompanied 

 by three forest bulletins. Pp. 150. Two 

 diagrams. Published by the State Printer. 



Problems of wood and water come in for a 

 large share of the State Geologist's report. 

 Forestry occupies a considerable space with 

 accounts of work, of practical aid to land- 

 owners in handling forest lands, of forest fires 

 with methods for their checking and control. 

 In the report and the accompanying bulletins 

 there are also articles on ' ' Forest Fires in New 

 Jersey During 1902," " Notes on Basket Willow 

 Culture, " " Does Forestry in New Jersey Pay, ' ' 

 which is answered in the affirmative, and "For- 

 est Reservations in the Pines Belt of New Jer- 

 sey. ' ' The relation of the forests to the water- 

 sheds of the state are pointed out, especially in 

 relation to the floods which visited the Passaic 



region during the spring of last year, and in 

 relation to the artesian water supply, which is 

 an important item in New Jersey. 



Twenty-third Annual Report of the New Jersey 

 State Agricultural Experiment Station, and 

 the Fifteenth Annual Report of the New 

 Jersey Agricultural College Experiment 

 Station, for the year ending October 31, 

 1902. Published by the State Printer, 

 Trenton. Pp. 594. Illustrated by draw- 

 ings and photographs. 



Several reports are included in this book, 

 making it comprehensive in the extreme, and 

 it contains expert testimony from state chem- 

 ists, biologists, botanists, entomologists, etc., 

 whose thorough experiments during the past 

 year have been of a most practical nature. 

 Some space is devoted, naturally, to the famed 

 Jersey mosquito, and the methods used for the 

 checking of the pest, and the work being done 

 along this line, if carried on systematically, 

 should rid the state of most of the obnoxious 

 insects. 



American Park and Outdoor Art Association. 

 Sixth Annual Meeting, Boston, 1902. In 

 three parts. Part I, Proceedings; part II, 

 Addresses; part III, School Garden Papers. 

 Pp. 86, 46, and 44. Published by the Sec- 

 retary at Rochester, N. Y. 

 The second part of the report is naturally of 

 a more general scope and contains addresses 

 by John De Witt Warner, J. Horace MacFar- 

 land, and Myra L. Dock, member of the Penn- 

 sylvania State Forestry Commission. Though 

 the association concerns itself mainly with aes- 

 thetic considerations, as its name signifies, 

 they do not lose sight of practical values, and 

 aim, especially in connection with the conser- 

 vation of the forests, to wed the interests of use 

 and beauty. 



Report of the Michigan Forestry Commission for 

 1902. Pp. 107. Illustrated by 38 plates 

 from photographs. Published by the state 

 printer, Lansing, Mich., 1903. 

 This excellent report, prepared by the com- 

 mission of a state which is more and more be- 

 coming alive to the needs of careful forest 

 management to husband its resources, holds 

 lessons for every state. A number of men in 

 the state are aware of the deterioration which 

 will take place in farm and other values if the 

 forests are not properly conserved, and they 

 are carrying on a vigorous campaign of educa- 

 tion and example in the face of some criticism 

 and a lack of sufficient funds to bring forth the 

 best fruits of their. beliefs. 



Every one of the many reports in this vol- 

 ume are of interest, and all of them taken to- 

 gether form an exposition of the needs and re- 

 sources of the Michigan forests. There are 

 more than twenty carefully prepared papers, 

 and it would be unwise to single any one out 

 for particular comment, as each presents the 

 particular point of view of some authority or 

 industry. Michigan's wealth bears a close re- 

 lation to her forests, not only through such 



