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the successful taking of black bass. But, although this fish is now 

 abundant in many parts of California, proper methods for its taking are 

 not either well known or in general use. It is a game fish, a tough 

 fighter after being hooked, and excellent for eating. And the fisherman 

 who will master such wisdom as is contained in Mr. St. John's book, 

 and put it in practice along the streams of California's central valley, 

 will find such fishing as will almost satisfy the longings of an angler's 

 soul. Q -p. 



Our Cities To the layman this book appears something prophetic, 

 Awake* somewhat on the plane of the ideal ; yet it abounds in sta- 

 tistics and tabular statements of facts which represent ac- 

 tual achievements in a city awake and up and doing! 



Everything from garbage disposal to community singing and child 

 welfare comes under the head of "Public Works" in a city where the 

 mayor and the director of public works combined unselfish love of their 

 kind with efficiency and practical sense. 



In conclusion, the author says: "As America calls millions for mili- 

 tary duty overseas, so she calls tens of millions for civic duty here. The 

 goal is absolutely the same — the enfranchisement of the human spirit." 



. . H. M. Le C. 



The Human For boys who still think it the funniest joke ever to tie 

 Side OF a tin can to a dog's tail, or to heave a stone at a cat, no 



ANiMALsf better book than this could be written. Thoughtless 

 grown-up people, too, could learn from this book how to 

 treat their dumb neighbors as fellow beings. 



What is usually accepted as instinct in animals the author interprets 

 as intellect. He examines many kinds of animal, from the cat and cow 

 of our own home-place to the lemming of Scandinavia and the zebra of 

 African wilds. He shows us how these animals live as human beings. 

 The young of a species play to exercise their muscles and to strengthen 

 those which will be most used later in life. All animals prepare, with 

 their own individual weapons, for the great and terrible war which has 

 always existed in the world. The warfare of nations has stopped, but 

 the battles of individuals will long continue. Are not animals even bet- 

 ter equipped for strife than superior man? 



Perhaps the most interesting chapter — unless we except the one on 

 the "Allies of Men" — is the one on food conservation. Let us here- 

 upon release the polecat from a part of his huge burden of odium. He 

 makes a storehouse near his home, and this he fills with frogs and liz- 

 ards and insects, so that his children may have plenty of fresh meat. 



* Our Cities Awake. By Morris Llewellyn Cooke. Doubleday, Page & Co., 

 New York. 1918. Price, $2.50 net. 



tThe Human Side of Animals. By Royal Dixon. Illustrations in color and 

 in black and white. Frederick A. Stokes Company. Cloth, 8vo. Price, $1.75 net. 



