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familiar trees that become garden friends, but also a song to one known 

 to Sierrans in the high mountains, "A Lady of the Snows," as Miss 

 Harriet Monroe charmingly describes the mountain hemlock. 



Even the mountain climber who agrees with Joyce Kilmer when he 



^^y^> "I think that I shall never see 



A poem lovely as a tree," 



will find this collection a very delightful book to have with him for a 

 noon-hour in the shade of a pine. Le -q b_ 



A Guide to the This is a practical guide to the national parks, deal- 

 National Parks ing more with routes, accommodations, etc., than 

 OF America* with scenic descriptions. The author takes up the 

 parks in the general order of their magnitude and 

 importance, beginning with the Yellowstone. Here will be found de- 

 tailed information concerning rail and stage transportation, hotels and 

 camps, with fares and daily rates as authorized by the Government. All 

 tours, either by stage or by pack train, are included. The author also 

 gives advice on the necessary equipment for the national park visitor, 

 and the more important park regulations in force at present. 



J. N. Le C. 



Sign More than twenty years of serious study of the sign-language 

 TALKf of the American Indian lie behind Ernest Thompson Seton's 

 preparation of this illustrated dictionary of 1600 signs used by 

 the Indians of the Great Plains. He is conversant with all the elabo- 

 rate codes prepared by American army officers, with the writings of 

 Indian agents and missionary workers who were experts in gesture 

 language, and has taken his own manuscript from tribe to tribe for con- 

 sultation with the best sign-talkers of the present day. The sign-talk 

 of the Cheyenne tribe is taken as a standard, as theirs has been simpli- 

 fied to become largely a one-hand code ; but some signs of other tribes 

 have also been added, as well as a hundred or more used by the deaf in 

 Europe and America. 



So enthusiastic is the author about the uses of sign-language that he 

 proposes it as the future universal world language. With this thought 

 in view, he has added the French and German equivalents of the Eng- 

 lish word expressing the root-idea of each sign. Among the many ad- 

 vantages which the author finds for the Indian sign-language over the 

 complete sign code of the deaf is that the former expresses ideas in- 

 stead of spelling out words, and therefore can be used by people with 



*A Guide to the National Parks of America. Compiled and edited by Edward 

 Frank Allen, editor of "Travel." Robert McBride & Company, New York. 1918. 

 Price, $1.25 net; postage extra. 



fSign Talk. By Ernest Thompson Seton. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden 

 City and New York. Price, $3.00. 



