Pinchot, Gifford, _A Primer of Forestry_. Parts I and II, U. S. Dept. of Agric. For. Serv. Bull. No. 24. 88 pp. and 88 pp. A concise, clear, and fully illustrated little manual of forestry conditions, forest enemies, forestry principles and practice abroad and in the U. S. Pinchot, Gifford. _The Adirondack Spruce._ N. Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons. A technical account of the author's investigations on a forest estate in Northern New York. Price, O. W., _Saving the Southern Forests_. _World's Work_, 5: 3207, March, '03. A plea for conservative lumbering; excellent illustrations. Record, Samuel J., _Characterization of the Grain and Texture of Wood_. Woodcraft, 15: 3, June, 1911. Roth, Filibert, _A First Book of Forestry_. Boston: Ginn & Co. 291 pp. A book for young people, giving in an interesting form many valuable facts about American forests and their care and use. It includes a leaf key to the trees. Sargent, Charles Sprague, _Forest Trees of North America_. U. S. 10th Census, Vol. 9. Quarto, 612 pp. Part I deals with the distribution of the forests, and gives a catalog and description of the forest trees of North America, exclusive of Mexico. Part II. Tables of properties of the woods of the U. S. Part III. The economic aspects of the forests of the U. S. considered geographically, and maps showing distributions and densities. Exceedingly valuable. Sargent, Charles Sprague, _Jesup Collection, The Woods of the U. S._ N. Y.: D. Appleton & Co., 203 pp. A detailed description of the Jesup Collection of North American Woods in the American Museum of Natural History, N. Y. City, with valuable tables as to strength, elasticity, hardness, weight, etc. Condensed from Vol. IX of 10th U. S. Census. Sargent, Charles Sprague, _Manual of the Trees of North America_. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 826 pp. A compact mine of information, with some errors, about the known trees of North America and their woods, summarized from Sargent's larger work, "The Silva of North America." (See below.) Sargent, Charles Sprague, _The Silva of North America_. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. A monumental and sumptuous work of 14 quarto volumes, describing in great detail all the known trees of North America and their woods, with beautiful line drawings of leaves and fruits. Shaler, Nathaniel S., _The United States of America_. Vol. 1, pp. 485-517. N. Y.: D. Appleton & Co. Chapter IX is a popular description of American forests and the Lumber Industry. Snow, Chas. Henry, _The Principal Species of Wood_. N. Y.: John Wiley & Sons. 203 pp. Descriptions and data regarding the economically important varieties of wood, with excellent photographs of trees and woods.