The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-26
OTHER BOOKS.

When Or. William T. Hornaday lee
tured before the Yale forestry school
on wild Life Conservation in Theory
and Practice" lectures which the Yale
University Press publishes, both lee
turer and audience were sure to he
enthusiastic on the matter OF conserva-
ton and sarcastic against the pubic
which Is deaf TO their entreaties or is
actually opposing them In deed. The
preservers have hard fight to wage
against heedlessuess and se;hshness, and
a certain amour, Of intemperance In
statements OF fact and In prophecies or
calamity Ia excusable. DR.. Hornaday Is
always interesting; We can sympathze
with him In lamentlng the extinction
of many species of animals. though
some we cannot deplore, and can under
stand how the naturalist may look on
some animals with other eyes than the
farmer or the hunter. DR.. Hornaday Is
perfectly fair. he tells also about the in
stances where conservation has gone
wrong. about the rabbit in Australia and
the English sparrow and more annoy
ing starting here; he warns us against
the monroose as the coming peril.
Only the expert with plenty of time
on his hands and full confidence In his
reason can Judge Of the meaning or I'M
portance OF Theodore Andrea Cook
THE Curves of Life" GIenry Holt anc
Company, in which he seems to base
art and biology on the spiral lines In
shellhsh. We are assured that II IS a
desperate feat IN thinking" and are
willing TO believe t. We can only com
pare II TO the treatises based on measure
/ 10 n
Illustrated with over 400 pictures.
There Is much about pain and much
about childbirth, with a brief general
account Of the subject Itself, in "Twi-
ligh, Sleep" by Henry Smith Williams
NJ. D., LII. d. OHarpers). The author
like the practitioners. seems dlsincllned
TO regard 1t as new form OF an@sthetic.
\ summary Of events relating to me-
Erocs that have occurred during the
year. together with many articles which
practically relate the history of the
negro In the United States, besides val
liable statistical tables, will be found IN
the Negro Year Book" edited by Mon
roe y. Work (The Negro Year Book
! Publishing Company. Tuskegee Insu-
tute. Alabama).
/ Rather melancholy interest attaches
TO the ~ ear BOOK OF the Carnegie In
dowment for International Peace
/ Washington, d. c., which deals with
7 the activities of the institute up to the
end OF June, 1918. The volume contain,
/ The deed OF Eift, the rules and the re-
/ ports OF the directors OF the several de-
/ partments. With It comes pamphlet
containing the report OF Secretary Of
state John W. Foster TO President Har-
rison on Limitation of Armament or
| tho Great Lakes" 1.-THE Endowment
Washington.
I The British taste in Christmas cards
at least as manifested by royalty. turns
( 10 artistic reproductions OF historical
pictures. From Raphael Tuck and Sons
London, We have received the cards Sc
lected this year by King George. Queen
Mary. Queen Alexandra and the Prince
Of Wales as well as one they have de-
vised as the nations Christmas card
. All are beautiful specimens OF ltho-
graphic art, but none has the least APP
plication to Christmas or TO the present
condition of affairs.