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scenes with the mountains — an association which plays so large 

 a part in the charm the very name of the Alps has for us. "St. 

 Bernard had me at his feet and held me there," says Lord Lane. 

 "This strange, unkempt Pass, this Great St. Bernard seemed a 

 secret way back into other centuries, savage and remote. . . . 

 There was the old Roman road along which Napoleon had led 

 his staggering thousands. . . . Farther and farther back into the 

 land of dead days I journeyed with St. Bernard, and helped him 

 found the monastery which the eyes of my flesh had not yet 

 seen." 



This volume, presented to the Club library by Mr. E. T. Par- 

 sons, will be found to be very entertaining reading. M. R. 



A book that will be welcomed by members of 



OF ra? TreeT OF ^^^^^^ ^^"^ ^^^^ Eastwood's Handbook 

 California Trees of California,'^ a recent publica- 



tion of the California Academy of Sciences. 

 The first issue includes a special edition of "five hundred copies, 

 numbered and signed by the author." On previous occasions 

 Miss Eastwood has placed students of California's diversified 

 flora under obligation by the published results of her work. One 

 of these appeared as No. 27 among the Sierra Club's publications 

 in 1902, and was entitled "A Flora of the South Fork of King's 

 River." This proved so useful to botanically interested members 

 of the two Sierra Club outings to the King's and Kern River 

 cafions that they will not be slow to avail themselves of this new 

 aid to their studies. It is a popular but scientifically accurate 

 vade-mecum. As the title indicates, it limits itself to the trees 

 of California, but this limitation has the advantage of enabling 

 the author to bring the whole State within the scope of a con- 

 veniently portable manual. A striking feature of the book con- 

 sists of a profusion of finely executed half-tone plates, many of 

 them made from drawings left by Dr. Albert Kellogg. These 

 illustrations cannot fail to be of great assistance to the amateur 

 student. Naturally Miss Eastwood was obliged to make the 

 rather difficult distinction between a tree and a shrub. Among 

 California shrubs there are many ambitious candidates aspiring 

 to rank as trees, and not a few of the arboreal aristocracy have 

 fallen from their quondam estate through progressive change of 

 environment. To quote the author, "In general a tree differs 

 from a shrub in having a distinct trunk some distance above the 

 ground, and in being not less than fifteen feet high. Where the 

 species is only rarely a tree and generally a shrub it has not been 



* A Handbook of the Trees of California. By Alice Eastwood. Published 

 by the California Academy of Sciences. No. IX. San Francisco, 1905. For sale at 

 Robertson's, Elder's, and elsewhere. Price, paper bound, %i\ leather bound, $2.50. 



