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The Log of It is not surprising that young men go into the Forest Ser- 

 A Timber vice. Here is a record by one of the Service men of six 

 Cruiser* months' "cruising" in the mountains of southern New Mex- 

 ico, a record of the actual life and day-to-day duties of these 

 men in the field — a record of grilling hard work, but work that the sea- 

 soned, trained-down man delights in being able to do, and full of the 

 fascination of constant novelty. 



This particular record is unaffected, full of spirit, full of the humor 

 which animates real American men-folks when they live together "close 

 to nature" — and the author and the party of which he was one are all 

 interesting people. The technical side of the timber-cruiser's duties is 

 simply brought out, as well as his hard work and his simple but real 

 pleasures. Truly, if this is the Forest Service's timber cruising, there 

 will never be any lack of recruits for a service which offers so much 

 that is satisfying to the appetite of keen young men for action and ex- 

 perience with a little spice of adventure. 



The illustrations are excellent; one wonders where the author found 

 opportunity for making such good and appropriate photographs. 



A. H. A. 



The Grizzly "Man's loyal companion," Mr. Mills calls the grizzly bear. 

 BEARf For most of us this is a new conception of the dread beast 



of nursery days. But however we have been accustomed 

 to thinking of him, surely there is no animal in which grown-ups are so 

 readily interested, nor which so entrances the children. I remember 

 watching in an audience the rapt faces of a group of children to whom, 

 in his inimitable way, Mr. Mills was recounting the story included in 

 this volume of Johnny and Jenny, the twin bears who grew up in his 

 house. Lion cubs or tiger kittens could never so have enthralled them. 

 Mr. Mills make us feel all the human qualities of the bears as a few 

 rare authors have known how to do with dogs. This collection of bear 

 stories and observations, the fruit of many years intimacy with grizzly 

 bears, is a book for every one, but perhaps above all for the growing 

 boy. ^ ^ M. R. P. 



The Adventures Nature writers generally consider themselves happy 

 OF A in the description of a single incident like the find- 



Nature Guide$ ing of a woodpecker's nest. With Mr. Mills such 

 an incident is apt to be only a link in an endless 

 chain of experience. He revisits the woodpecker's nest in autumn and 

 finds a chipmunk evicting a field-mouse from it, to be routed out him- 



*The Log of a Timber Cruiser. By William Pinkney Lawson. Duffield & 

 Company, New York. 1915. 



■\The Grizzly Bear. By Ends A. Mills. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Com- 

 pany, Boston and New York. 1919. Pages, 284. Price, $2.00 net. 



%The Adventures of a Nature Guide. By Ends A. Mills. Illustrated. Double- 

 day Page & Company, New York. Pages, 271. 



