The book is fascinating reading, as the following table of contents and topics discussed readily suggests: Foreword; Preface; Chapter One.--America Three Hundred Years Ago: This Country Then; What We Owe the Settlers; The Indians Then and the Indians Now; A Picture to Remember; The Journey; Home Again; Chapter Two.--America Today; Another Journey; The Open Country; We Must Live Within Our Means; Not Only the Settlers Were Blind; Chapter Three.--How the Forest Is Used, Abroad and at Home; In Germany; Elsewhere in Europe; In the Southern Pine Belt; Among the Douglas Fir; Logging in the North Woods; The Same Nearly Everywhere; We Must Grow Timber or Go Without; Chapter Four.--In a National Forest; A Busy Job; The Cowboy; The Timber Sale; How the Fires Start; Fighting the Fire; Brave Ranger Pulaski; Fire not the Only Enemy; The Forester; Private Forests; Teaching the People; Two Great Tasks; Chapter Five.--The Farmers' Farms and the Nation's Farm; Cotton and Corn; Boys the Best Farmers; North and West; We Must Grow What Food We Need; The Public Domain; The Sheep Herders and the Cowboys; Stock Followed Buffalo; The Range is Being Wasted; The Work of the Reclamation Service; Three Great Problems; Chapter Six.--The Treasures Underground; In a Coal Mine; Waste of Life and of Coal; The Bureau of Mines; Chapter Seven.--Wild Life: The Roe Deer and the Ranger; A Royal Hunt; The Young Germans in New York; How the Game Has Dwindled; Predatory Animals Cost Us Dearly; We Can All Help to Save the Game; Chapter Eight.--The Rivers: One More Journey; The First Sign of Use; Who Will Control the Water Powers?; Other Great Uses; Rivers Are Roads; Chapter Nine.--What This Means to Us; The Merchant's Son; The Farmer's Son; Why Taxes are Higher; The Nation and the Government; Chapter Ten.--How We Can Help; Knowing the Game; Learning the Game; Organization Counts; The Railroad; The Police Squad; We Can All Help; Chapter Eleven.--This is Conservation; The Ship of State; A Good Fight; Chapter Twelve.--An Inventory of Natural Resources; Forests; Waters; Lands; Minerals. The one hundred and thirty-six photographic illustrations are the very pick of over fifty thousand photographs at the command of the National Conservation Association, not only in their own numerous collection and the collections of affiliated societies and individuals, but in the immense collections of the Government itself. SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY Publishers, Boston Are you a "fan"? Then this is the book for YOU! THE BIG LEAGUE By CHARLES E. VAN LOAN With a frontispiece and a decorative wrapper in three colors by Arthur Covey $1.00 net; by mail, $1.10