Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
Atlan. 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Rogers, Julia Ellen. Tree book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation. 16 plates in color and 160 in black and white from photographs by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. **$4. Doubleday.
“One of the fruits of efforts recently made to bring the literature of popular science and nature-study to a sane and solid basis.” (Dial.) Pt. 1 contains an introduction, names of trees, a sketch of tree families, and a key to the principal ones followed by fifty biographical chapters, each treating one family; pt. 2 is devoted to the subject of forestry; pt. 3 deals with the uses of the products of the forest; and pt. 4 describes the life of the trees.
“The style is pleasing and popular, while on the whole the work is scientifically accurate.” Bohnmil Shimek.
+ + – Dial. 40: 358. Je. 1. ’06. 1040w.
“The technical arrangement of the book is admirable and most practical.” Mabel O. Wright.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 1410w.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3. Scribner.