Another Hardy Garden Book. By Helena 
Rutherfurcl Ely. New York City: The 
Macmillan Company. 
This is an acceptable supplement and pleas- 
ing companion to the author’s first book, “A 
Woman’s Hardy Garden.” It contains much 
of the same enthusiasm. It is especially read- 
able at this time of the year, and every lover 
of garden plants will here find useful knowl- 
edge and pleasurable inspiration. The illustra- 
tions are delightful. 
Songs of the Nation. Compiled and Edited 
by Charles W. Johnson. New York City: 
Silver, Burdett and Company. 
Patriotism is love of country, isn't it, and love 
of country is exactly what we are trying to 
inculcate and increase? Then certainly patriotic 
songs of a nation come within the scope of our 
efforts. We are grateful to the publishers for 
favoring us with a copy of this interesting 
music book for schools. It is not only adapted 
to schools but for community singing. The 
selections are well made. 
Gardening With Brains. By Henry T. Finck. 
New York City: Harper and Brothers. 
A book on gardening not only for reference 
but for reading. It contains many important 
facts but pleasingly flavored with wise and 
witty remarks and spiced with anecdotes that 
will appeal to the garden maniac. Such a 
book would seem out of place at gardening 
time. It is too literary. It savors too much 
of the winter fireplace even in its appearance. 
It is hardly sedate enough to be a gardening 
manual. Yet it gives some of the most practical 
suggestions that I have seen although its spirit 
is that of gardening in the library and the 
easy-chair rather than with the fertilizing 
pail and the hoe. 
Down the Columbia. By Lewis R. Freeman. 
New York City : Dodd, Mead & Com- 
pany. 
The author, who has tried nearly every 
known form of adventure in nearly every 
country of the world, for years had an am- 
bition to voyage down the Columbia River 
from its source to its mouth. Curiously 
enough, although the Columbia is one of the 
world’s great rivers, and perhaps the grand- 
est, scenically, of any, there is no record 
that any man has ever made the complete 
journey from the glacial sources to tide- 
water. The Columbia runs through moun- 
tains nearly its full length, and there is no 
slack of water on the entire course where 
rapids are sometimes twenty miles long. For 
rocks, current, speed, volume of water and 
for scenery, there is no river like it. Mr. 
Freeman’s book describes his journey and 
his adventures, of which there were more 
than enough for an average man, and illus- 
trates his trip with many wonderful photo- 
graphs along the way/ — Mrs. N. E. Britton, 
New York Botanical Garden. 
A Woman’s Hardy Garden. By Helena 
Rutherfurd Ely. New York City: The 
Macmillan Company. 
Published several years ago and many times 
read by the reviewer this book seems to im- 
prove on every reading as the reader’s knowl- 
edge of its contents becomes more complete. It 
is packed with inspiring text and vivid illus- 
trations. The author died several years ago, a 
keenly regretted fact. It would have been a 
delight to know her, to visit her garden and 
to share some of her enthusiasm. In view of 
her death soon after the book was written 
the final paragraph has especial significance : 
“As a rule, young peofile do not care for 
gardening. They lack the necessary patience 
and perseverance. But in the years of middle 
life, when one’s sun is slowly setting and 
interest in the world and society relaxes, the 
garden, with its changing bloom, grows ever 
dearer.” 
Trailmakers of the Northwest. By Paul 
Leland Haworth. New York City: Har- 
court Brace & Company. 
This is a book to be loved by all boys and 
girls and enjoyed by many adults. It is full of 
life and adventure. It is a story of the hero- 
ism and of the exploits which opened up our 
country. The demand for fur led to great 
discoveries. Accounts of the exploration of 
Radisson, Mackenzie’s journeys to the Arctic 
and the Pacific, the discovery of Hudson Bay 
and the Great Lakes, the discovery of the 
Northwest Passage are here; accounts of the 
habits of beavers, buffaloes and other animals 
the explorers hunted, and stories of the In- 
dians with whom they lived. The profusely 
illustrated pages breathe of courage, the exi- 
gencies of adventure and of primitive life. The 
final chapter tells about trappers in the North- 
west today, their methods of trapping, and how 
the love of adventure and of the wilderness 
persists in them and how they too are trail- 
makers. — E. G. Britton, New York Botanical 
Garden. 
Watched by Wild Animals. By Enos A. 
Mills. Garden City, New York: Double- 
day, Page and Company. 
This book is fully up to the author’s usual 
high standard and acute observation. He is 
