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"The Lure of Kartabo," takes the reader to the mingling of the Mazaruni and 

 Cuyuni rivers and introduces him to wily jungle folk like the vampire bat and 

 the dainty coati-mundi. "The Home Town of the Army Ants" is a chapter 

 dealing with the community life and foraging methods of the army ants. The 

 parceling out of functions among various classes of these incredibly active 

 creatures borders on the marvelous. But Mr. Beebe is more than a naturalist. 

 Everywhere on his pages one catches glimpses of our human world in relation 

 to the varied life of this planet, past as well as present. Let me quote this 

 opening gambit of his last chapter — "Sequels" : "Tropical midges of sorts live 

 for a day — sequoias have felt their sap quicken at the warmth of fifteen hun- 

 dred springs. Somewhere between these extremes, we open our eyes, look about 

 us for a time and close them again. Modern political geography and shifts of 

 government give us Methusalistic feelings — but a glance at rocks or stars sends 

 us shuddering among other motes which glisten for a moment in the sunlight 

 and then vanish. We who strive for a little insight into evolution and the mean- 

 ing of things as they are forever long for a glimpse of things as they were." 

 The continuation is equally engaging. This book is worth more than it costs. 



W. F. B. 



Lake This work, in two portly volumes, is a physical and biologi- 



Maxinkuckee* cal survey of a lake in northern Indiana. The joint authors 

 are Dr. Barton Warren Evermann and Mr. Howard Walton 

 Clark, of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Such a work as this must be read to be 

 appreciated. It is published by the Department of Conservation of the State of 

 Indiana, and in his foreword Richard Lieber, director of this department, de- 

 scribes it as "truly a scientific classic and without a peer in its field." The last 

 statement probably is well within the facts, for since Conway Macmillan's 

 Minnesota Plant Life appeared I have seen nothing at all like it, and its scope 

 is much larger. Here we have a description of the hydrography, meteorology, 

 and biology, the latter including a complete survey of the fish, mammals, birds, 

 reptiles, amphibians, insects, mollusks, crustaceans, leeches, worms, sponges, 

 plankton, algse, plants, etc., that live in and about the lake. There are numer- 

 ous fine illustrations, thirty-five of them colored plates. Teachers of natural 

 science, as well as the general reader, will find this a most interesting and in- 

 forming work. W. F. B. 



Life of The Life of de Saussure, by Douglas W. Freshfield, is the trib- 



DE SAUSSUREf ute of one great mountaineer to another. For over half a cen- 

 tury Mr. Freshfield has stood as one of the leading representa- 

 tives of modern mountaineering. As an explorer in the Alps, the Caucasus, and 

 the Himalayas, he has done much to give mountaineering an important part in 



*Lake Maxinkuckee; A Physical and Biological Survey. By Barton Warren Evermann 

 and Howard Walton Clark. Published by the Department of Conservation, State of 

 Indiana. 1920. Vol. I; pages, 660; vol. II; pages, 512. 



tr/ie Life of Horace Benedict de Saussure. By Douglas W. Freshfield, D.C.L., with 

 the collaboration of Henry F. Montagnier. Edward Arnold, London. 1920. 



