January, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND C^ARDENS 



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The Training of Farmers. By L. H. 



Bailey. New York: The Century Co. 



Pp. 263. Price, $1.00 net. 

 If all the farmers everywhere were to 

 read Prof. Bailey's books there would be a 

 marvellous betterment in American agricul- 

 ture, provided the ideas and principles he 

 elucidates were put into practical operation. 

 The present book, which appeared in whole 

 or in part in the monthly columns of the 

 Century Magazine, does not deal with agri- 

 cultural methods, but with the education 

 and training of farmers as farmers. This, 

 it will at once be seen, is something very 

 different from the schooling of farmers' 

 sons, or of the farmers themselves if they 

 neglected or had no opportunities in their 

 youth. 



It should be apparent that a book of this 

 scope must be one that deals with a prob- 

 lem of first rate importance. Prof. Bailey 

 approaches the subject with an open mind 

 and with long experience. A wise man 

 himself, and carefully trained, with many 

 years spent in practical work, he is pre- 

 cisely the one to discuss the many weighty 

 topics treated in this book in a sane and 

 helpful way. It is a book alive with ideas, 

 and a really notable contribution to the 

 highly important topic of the relationship 

 of education to farming. 



The Boy Pioneers. Sons of Daniel 

 Boone. By D. C. Beard. New York : 

 Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 329. 

 Price, $2.00 net. 



Dan Beard is one of the men who never 

 grow old. ;He has been writing and illus- 

 trating books for years and years, and this 

 his latest, shows him as young and fresh 

 as he ever was. It is a fine youthful sub- 

 ject he has, and this helps no doubt; but it 

 needs enthusiasm to write engagingly for 

 boys, and this fine quality Mr. Beard pos- 

 sesses in an eminent degree. 



To a considerable extent this volume is 

 a handbook for the Society of the Sons of 

 Daniel Boone, an organization for boys in- 

 vented and promoted by Mr. Beard. But 

 it is pre-eminently a boys' book for boys, 

 and one does not have to be a member of 

 the author's thriving juvenile society to ap- 

 preciate its many suggestions nor to be de- 

 barred from following out his ideas. It is 

 a book of out-of-doors, too ; of healthy nor- 

 mal boy life in the open, an active busy life 

 in which boys live and work and do things. 

 Mr. Beard tells them what to do and how 

 to do it, and he illustrates his text with 

 numerous drawings of his own that tell 

 the stories quite as well as his own written 

 words. 



Here, then, is an outdoor book of the 

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 go nowadays he has long passed the boy 

 age. But he has not lost his enthusiasm for 

 boys ; he loves them and understands them ; 

 and his work and his books are successful 

 because of these basic facts. 



In a Yorkshire Garden. By Reginald 



Farrer. New York : Longmans 



Green & Co. Pp. 316. 



This is a charming and delightful book; 



not at all a "garden" book as generally 



understood ; but a book for the study ; a 



book to read for the pleasure of reading ; 



a book for a quiet hour. And when you 



have finished you have learned a lot ; a lot 



Continued on page xi. 



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