INDIAN SCOUT TALKS

(Little, Brown & Co.)

Dr. Eastman dedicates his book to the boy scouts and camp-fire girls, for whom it is designed as a text-book on wood craft. In the dedication he says: "These chapters represent the actual experiences and first-hand knowledge of the author." As might be expected of an Indian, who learned as a boy to "distinguish different kinds of trees by the rustling of their leaves," his intimacy with nature is so close that his own experiences fail to serve as the basis of strictly practical lessons. Before a boy attempts the Indian ways of building fires without matches and cooking without pots, he should first learn to make fires and cook food with the kit of a modern woodsman. In lessons on snaring, canoeing and building 'shelters Dr. Eastman ignores altogether the prohibitions of state forest and game laws. In his account of wild animals he teaches the scouts how to face a charging grizzly, how to flag an antelope or a sand-hill crane, how to trail a moose, how to imitate the howling of a wolf. In. short, this book is not so much a manual of practical wood craft as it is a description of the lost arts of the old Indian life.

Dr. Eastman is, nevertheless, a true teacher, who teaches general principles rather than details. His sympathetic account of the Indian ways should inspire boy scouts as do the frontier tales of the Youth's Companion. His pupils will doubtless continue to travel the woods and streams with match-box and compass and full kit, hunting rabbits and squirrels instead of grizzlies and antelopes, but they must surely catch from their teacher a little of the contagious spell of the wilderness. Quite correctly they are left to solve their own little problems, for, as the author very aptly says, "All learning is a dead language to him who gets it second hand."

LELAND GRIGGS

Mr. Frederick W. Jenkins '02 is the author of "Bibliography and its Relation to Social Work," reprinted from the Bibliographical Society of AmericaPapers, vol. 8, 1914.

Dr. Charles A. McKendree '07 is the author of "A Case of Myasthenia Gravis," published originally in the Journalof the American Medical Association, October 31, 1914.

"General Wilkinson and his Later Intrigues with the Spaniards," by Isaac Joslin Cox '96, appears in the AmericanHistorical Review for July, 1914. The same author contributes "The Pan-American Policy of Jefferson and Wilkinson" to the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 1, no. 2, September, 1914.

Harry H. Blunt '97 is the editor of the Wonalancet Way, a little magazine now completing its second volume and issued monthly for the neighbors of the Wonalancet Company, Nashua, N. H.

"Nationalism in Bohemia and Poland," by Herbert A. Miller '99 is published in the North American Review for December, 1914.

Alfred Bartlett '94, the former editor of the Cornhill Booklet, has brought to life again this' little publication and is now issuing it monthly as formerly. In the December number of the CornhillBooklet are reprinted four poems from Bypaths in Arcady" "by' Kendall Banning '02.

John Cotton Dana '78 is the author of "American Art," printed at the Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont. This little book beautifully printed in Goudy type is limited to an edition of 200 copies and is number one of the Hill of Corn series.

Mr. John Dunlap '05 is the author of "Water Works Statistics of Thirtyeight Cities of lowa with Meter Rates of Seventy Cities." This is published as University of lowa Extension Bulletin, number 8, November, 1914.

John Barrett '89 is the author of "Our Latin-American Opportunity" in the Scientific American for October 3, 1914; "Our Trade Opportunity in Latin America," Review of Reviews, October 1914; "Pacific Coast and Pan-America," in Sunset, October, 1914.

Dr. H. Sheridan Bakatel, Medical '95, is the author of "The Field Hospital in Peace and War" in the Medical Times for October, 1913, and the Army Medical Corps, reprinted from the New YorkMedical Journal for April 25, 1914.

The ALUMNI MAGAZINE has received of late various publications from Rev. John Edgar Johnson '66. Among these are "The Rock that is Higher than I," a small volume of sermons now in its fourth edition, "An American Pilgrimmage to a Quaker Shrine," "Bear ye one Another's Burdens," "The Chinese Language," "Chinese Literature," "Chinese Transcendentalism," "A Defence of the Heathen against the Charge of Idol-Worship," "Flowers and their Lessons," "Forgotten Graves versus Unknown Dead," "Hints on the Acquisition of German," "A Homily on Hay Fever," "How to be Happy Anyhow," "Is Christianity the Religion of the Workingman ?", "Lazarus at the Table of Jesus," "Man and Beast," "A Plea for Lent," "Religion and Therapeutics," "The Rights of Man," "The Sea; its Origin and Usefulness," "A Sermon from Shakespeare," "The Upward Look, or The Mountains and their Lessons."

Alumni publications to be reviewed later are: "Athenian White Lekythoi," by Arthur T. Fairbanks '86, "The Bible and Universal Peace," by George H. Gilbert '78, "Thomas B. Reed," by Samuel McCall '74, "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut," by Frederick Gregory Mather '67, and "The Real Turk," by Stanwood Cobb '03.