THE EARTH FOR SAM

Dartmouth College has perhaps done more than any other American college to bring her alumni in closer touch with the academic program. Reading lists have been distributed for a number of years with short characterizations of books recommended by the faculty committee. One graduate wrote that he found the lists valuable because they "serve as a warning to the man whose interest in things intellectual is slipping, and are excellent guides for constitutionally lazy men." National Association of Book Publishers.

By W. MAXWELLREED, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York.

This book for juveniles will prove fascinating to the parent and instructive for the child. It may well serve as an introduction to the natural sciences for the very young, having been written expressly for a nine-year-old boy. "Giant dinosaurs and brontosaurs, sea beasts and dragons of the air, the sabretoothed tiger and the little mammal which became the ancestor of the human race move through its pages. This book does not pretend to be a history. It is the thrilling story of scientific guess work, the actual basis on which these guesses are made is shown in the pictures of the fossils of plants and animals, of ancient skeletons and rock formations." The connected account of evolution which may be read from the two hundred and fifty authentic photographs contained, is food for reflection for the mature mind.

Department of Zoology.