BOOK REVIEWS: 
In this section are reviews of new, or particularly important and interesting books 
in the fields of natural science. Books dealing with botany or kindred subjects should 
be sent to the Editor, the University of Notre Dame. All other books for review 
should be sent to Carroll Lane Fenton, at the Walker Museum, the University of Chi- 
eago, Ill. Publishers are requested to furnish prices with books. 
ScIENCE SKETCHES. By David Starr Jordan. Fifth Edition. A. C. 
McClurg & Co. $1.50. 
This edition of the now famous “Science Sketches” presents some 
material not found in the first ones, but the book is in general much 
the same as in the first edition. It is made up largely of sketches re- 
printed from various periodicals, many of them considerably modified 
from their original form. Nine out of the twelve chapters deal with 
present day natural history and naturalists; one chapter is a humorous 
caricature of protective tariff and human nature; another is a fantastic 
presentation of life in a Paleozoic sea; the last is an account of the 
geologic history, and the discovery and reservation as a national park, 
of the Yellowstone region. The salmon, as is to be expected from Dr. 
Jordan’s special work at the time the book was being written, takes 
the lead in number of pages devoted to any one subject. But as there 
is much of little value, and little of much® value being’ published on 
the habits of fishes, this emphasis is a highly desirable one. Likewise, 
the biographical chapters on Agassiz and Rafinesque are very welcome 
in a book of popular science sketches. Cc. L. F. 
PLANTATION GAME TRAILS. By Archibald Rutledge. Houghton, Mifflin 
Company. $3.50. 
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Mr. Rutledge owns an old “before the war” kind of plantation on 
the Santee River in South Carolina—the paradise of the South, so far 
as sportsmen and naturalists are concerned. It has been his privilege 
to follow, for almost thirty years, the game trails in this great plan- 
tation region. He has seen the old plantations become great waste 
tracts; has seen the cultivated land once more become forest; has seen 
th game come back to its own, a great event in this day of perfected 
weapons and insatiable game-hog's. 
The book is singularly readable, and to a considerable degree valu- 
able from the standpoint of natufal history. Such chapters as the one 
dealing with the behavior of animals in forest fires, and their activities 
in burned-over districts, and the otter’s odd habits of work and play 
are much worth while. The illustrations, all first-rate photographs, 
make the volume very attractive in appearance as well as in content: 
Mr. Rutledge has added a new region to the geography of the sports- 
man-naturalist, and his addition is one to be welcomed. Crh 
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