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ture's mysteries is not all "beer and skittles." It is delightful for the idle reader 

 that a man of Mr, Mills' ability should be willing to condense into two hun- 

 dred and forty-one pages incidents of almost dramatic liveliness, but those who 

 have pored over the records in the rocks and elsewhere know that to get the 

 thrills for those pages there must be long days of hard and painful toil and 

 thought. Laura. Jackson 



The Drama of This book by Arthur Heming is a description and narrative 

 THE Forests* of the northern woods — a description gleaned from a thirty- 

 three-year experience in them — a narrative weaving into one 

 whole the most interesting facts of that experience. Many of these travels were 

 taken with the Indians, of whom, as a race and individually, the author has 

 the highest regard. Living so closely with them, he might be said to have got- 

 ten the Indian point of view. 



The story is rather loosely woven together, and the literary style sometimes 

 suffers by the feeling displayed and the language used in rebuking what the 

 author considers the shameless dealing with fact of the ordinary author and 

 scenario-writer. The point of view is, however, original, the descriptions good, 

 and the purpose sincere. The keynote of the book is perhaps best given in the 

 words of the author in the introduction: "Thus it has taken me thirty-three 

 years to gather the information this volume contains, and my only hope in 

 writing it is that perhaps others may have had the same day-dream, and that 

 in this book they may find a reliable and satisfactory ansv/er to all their won- 

 derings. " Daisymay Huber 



The Plains and the Every collector of Californiana or books containing orig- 

 RocKiES : inal narratives of western travel and adventure will be 



A BiBLiOGRAPHYt grateful to Mr. Henry R. Wagner for this very unusual 

 bibliography. To say that there are descriptions of three 

 hundred and forty-nine book-titles tells but a small part of the story. Mr. Wag- 

 ner knows the contents of these books and their relation to other contemporary 

 books in the same field. He makes illuminating comments upon the authors, 

 corrects long-standing mistakes, examines critically their sources of informa- 

 tion, and provides a valuable basis for historical research. In short, all his- 

 torians of the pioneer life and earliest explorations of the West will come to 

 regard Mr. Wagner's bibliography as indispensable. One cannot but stand in 

 admiration, also, of his skill and industry in collecting so many rare and val- 

 uable books, and it is to be hoped that they may ultimately find a permanent 

 abiding-place in California. The book bears the imprint of John Howell of 

 San Francisco, and is beautifully printed, with wide margins, in royal octavo. 



W. F. B. 



*The Drama of the Forests. By Arthur Heming. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 

 Price, $5.00 net. 



■fThe Plains and the Rockies: A Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and 

 Adventure, 1800-1865. By Henry R. Wagner. John Howell, San Francisco. 1921. Pages, 

 193. Price, .$7.50. 



