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Edge of the Jungle. By William Beebe. 
Henry Holt and Company, 19 West 44th Street, New York. 
The Edge of the Jungle is dedicated "To the birds and 
butterflies, the ants and tree-frogs who have tolerated me in 
their jungle ante-chambers," and contains an excellent definition 
of Mr. Beebe 's methods, quoted as follows: 
"For the true scientific method is this: 
To trust no statements without verification, 
To test all things as rigorously as possible, 
To keep no secrets, to attempt no monopolies, 
To give out one's best modestly and plainly, 
Serving no other end but knowledge." 
— H. G. Wells. 
It includes twelve short essays with an appendix of scientific 
names. Most of these refer to the animals to whom the book is 
dedicated and have been reprinted from the Atlantic, Harper's 
and the House and Garden Magazines. But two of them every 
lover of gardens should read. "A Bit of Uselessness" and "A 
Tropic Garden." For wealth of imagery, striking comparisons, 
thrilling recollections and unusual and novel circumstances, this 
little volume furnishes a fresh view-point and will tempt many 
to undertake a trip into the tropics. 
At the annual dinner of the New York Academy of Sciences, 
held on December 19th, Mr. Beebe exhibited a series of water- 
color drawings of the tropical birds, lizards, snakes and toads, 
which were wonderfully beautiful in color and strange in form ; 
also a series of moving pictures contrasting the sloth and the 
monkey and showing the parasol ants. A visit to that wonderful 
waterfall of Kaietur, which is nine times as high as Niagara, in 
company with Mrs. Roosevelt and others, was the climax of his 
last trip to British Guiana. 
E. G. Britton. 
Trailmakers of the Northwest. By Paul Leland Haworth. 
Profusely illustrated. 
Harcourt Brace & Company, New York. 1921. 
This is a book that all boys and girls will love and many 
grown people will enjoy. It is full of life and adventure. A 
story of heroism and exploits which opened up our country and 
of how 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 ; 
descriptions of the habits of beavers and buffalo and the other 
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