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The University of Chicago Press 
Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835. By Milo Milton 
Quaife, Professor of History in the Lewis Institute of Tech- 
nology. 
488 pages, 8vo, cloth; $4.00, postpaid $4.23 
This book recounts, in a manner at once scholarly and 
dramatic, the early history of Chicago. Important as this 
subject is, it is not treated solely for its own sake. The author’s 
larger purpose has been to trace the evolution of the frontier 
from savagery to civilization. From the point of view of Chicago 
and the Northwest alone the work is local in character, although 
the locality concerned embraces five great states of the Union; 
in the larger sense its interest is as broad as America, for every 
foot of America has been at some time on the frontier of 
civilization. 
This task has never before been performed in an adequate 
way. The one really brilliant historian of Illinois, Mr. Edward 
G. Mason, died with only a few fragments of his great work 
completed, and no one has yet come forward to take his place. 
It is believed that this book will take rank as the standard history 
of Chicago in the early days. 
Chicago Tribune. A history of the beginnings of Chicago which, because 
it is scientific and based upon records rather than upon tradition, may 
overturn existing chronologies on the same subject. 
Animal Communities in Temperate America. A Study in Animal 
Ecology. By Victor Ernest Shelford, Instructor in Zodlogy in 
the University of Chicago. 
380 pages, 8vo, cloth; $3.00, postpaid $3.22 
This volume by Dr. Shelford presents the principles of 
field ecology, illustrated by the more widely distributed animal 
habitats of the eastern half of temperate North America, and 
the aquatic habitats of a much larger territory. Six chapters 
deal with general principles. 
In several chapters animal communities of lakes, streams, 
swamps, forests, prairies, and various soils and topographic 
situations are considered from the point of view of modern 
dynamic ecology. A very valuable feature of the book is the 
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