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the clergyman, the social worker, the penologist and the states- 

 man for "all we would ask is that 'these' give conscientious 

 consideration to the facts of heredity as a guiding principle in the 

 solution of the problems of the family with which they have to do. 

 No questions are so hedged about with superstition, with irra- 

 tional tradition, with religious dogma, as those which concern 

 sex and reproduction; no problems are more delicate, more diffi- 

 cult, than those which seek the direction of human evolution; 

 yet after all, man is an animal and must be dealt with as such. 

 Civic law he may escape, to natural law there is no immunity." 



Orland E. White. 



Recknagrel's and Bentley's Forest Management* 



There is at present an active movement, led by professional 

 foresters with Lt. Col. Graves, Chief of the U. S. Forest Service, 

 at their head, for the application of forestry to privately owned 

 timberlands in the United States. These lands contain three 

 quarters of the standing timber in the United States, and are for 

 the most part being cut without regard to the future. Whether 

 or not Recknagel's and Bentley's "Forest Management" was 

 planned by the authors as a part of this movement, aside from 

 the avowed purpose of stimulating forestry practice in general, 

 we do not know. In any case the book fits in admirably and is 

 most timely. 



The authors do not claim originality for their work, admitting 

 that most of their material is already contained in the technical 

 literature already published in this country. Nor do they aim 

 at popular treatment. Their purpose is to present the subject 

 in such a way that it can be understood and applied by the 

 owners of forest lands who are not professional foresters. This 

 does not apply to the farmer and owner of a small woodlot for 

 whom Ferguson has already written "Farm Forestry."! In 

 France the bulk of the forests are held by private owners as in 

 this country, but forestry is universally practiced. Most of the 



* Recknagel, A.B., and Bentley, J., Jr., Forest Management, xiii + 269 pages, 

 26 figures, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1919, net I2.50. 



t Ferguson, J. A., Farm Forestry, viii + 241 pages, illustrated, John Wiley and 

 Sons, New York. 



