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solitudes, work apart from men, exerting their tremendous ener- 

 gies in silence and darkness." Scientists we have in abundance, 

 and poets in lesser measure, but it is a rare faculty indeed that 

 can make a chapter on geology read Hke the noblest poetry. 



The book is the fruit of long experience and loving, earnest, 

 unwearying study. We who belong to a "time-poor" generation 

 that counts its mountain experience by days instead of years, 

 must indeed be thankful that the "long, bright-day and bright- 

 night walks . . . when like river and ocean currents time flowed 

 undivided, uncounted," were the portion of one who had so won- 

 derful a power to make their glory live. M. R. P. 



"Note on the The Secretary of the American Alpine 



Exploration and the Club, Mr. Howard Palmer, has presented 

 Geography of the to the Club library a reprint of a most 

 Northern Selkirks."* interesting paper on a little known re- 

 gion of the northern Selkirks. The 

 country described is included in the great bend made by the Co- 

 lumbia River as it swings from its northern course to the south- 

 east. A short account of the early exploration of the region pre- 

 cedes the narrative of the author's own expeditions. The fine 

 photographs give an idea of the wild grandeur of this portion of 

 the Selkirk Range and the difficulties it presents to the explorer. 



M. R. P. 



"Photographing This volume by Mr. McFarland will be 



Flowers and Trees greatly appreciated by our more ambi- 

 and Decorative tious photographers, particularly the very 



Photography."! complete chapter on flower photography. 



No better idea of its scope can be given 

 than to quote a few headings : Flower Compositions Indoors ; 

 Plates ; Illumination ; Backgrounds ; Arrangements ; Focusing ; 

 Exposure ; Getting Experience ; Developers and Development ; 

 The Use of a Ray-Filter ; Apparatus ; Flowers in Their Natural 

 Haunts; Weather Conditions; Reproducing Color. These indi- 

 cate the wide field covered by this handbook, which is most at- 

 tractively illustrated with flower photographs. Copies may be 

 had of Marsh & Co., 712 Market St., San Francisco, postpaid 50c. 



M. R. P. 



* Notes on the Exploration and the Geography of the Northern Selkirks, 

 British Columbia. By Howard Palmer. Reprinted from the Bulletin of 

 the American Geographical Society, Vol. XLIV, April, 1912. 



t Photographing Flowers and Trees and Decorative Photography. By J. 

 Horace McFarland. Tennant & Ward, New York. 191 1. 



