The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-11
At the Library
Interesting New Books

The Library is indebted to Mr.. o. l..
French for the reviews of the books in
this list
The Apples of New York.
Published in two volumes by the agri-
cultural department of the state of New
York. Prepared in the most painstaking
way from data systematically gathered
from the time when the New York exper-
Iment station was first established. The
most complete work ever published de-
scribing and illustrating the many varie-
ties OF apples grown in the eastern and
northern parts of the country 4 valuable
acquisition-es especially for the identified
ton OF varieties through its profusion of
colored and half-tone plates
The Breath of Life, John Burroughs
A new volume of essays on philosophical
themes, in which, with his full and lucid
acquaintance with all the researches and
conclusions of modern science, he dis
cusses the mystery of the nature and orr
gin of life. The chemist in his laboratory.
he says, can put together the exact con
stituent parts of which our human bodies.
and all organic bodies are composed.
/ What he cannot do is to discover and in
fuse into them the vital life principle.
/ Whatever conclusions or benefits we NAV
or may not be able to affirm. I'VE can at
least say, / think, that the struggle for
life is favored by the very constitution of
the universe, and that man in some in
scrutable way was potential in the fiery
nebula itself"
The Gasoline Automobile.
A complete and careful description of
the automobile in all its parts and aces
sions. Prepared primarily as a textbook
for use in the University Extension work
for the University of Wisconsin-s'for the
instruction of those who drive, repair. sell
or otherwise have TO do with motor-cars. =
An authoritative and timely work, very
fully illustrated. Merely knowing which
pedal TO press or which lever to pull is not
enough. The really competent driver
should understand what happens in the
various parts of the cars mechanism when
he presses the pedal or pulls the lever
Men of the Old Stone Age, Henry Fair
field Osborn.
The latest word, by an eminent author
ity, on the results of the study OF prehis-
toric man as revealed in the deposits found
in the caves and grottoes and under the
overhangng cliffs of the mountainous re-
gions OF western Europe Especially in
Iteresting as it reviews the evidence OF the
several glacial periods of the remote past.
and the wonderful variety and succession
of animal, tree and plant life Of the inter
vening ages. The book is the outcome of a
motor tour Of the region described, made
with distinguished European scientists in
1912. While written along strictly seien-
titic lines the underlying spirit and con-
clusions of the book is best expressed in
the authors own words in the preface
/ This Paleolithic tour made a
very profound impression-namely of the
very early evolution of the spirit OF man.
Of the close relation between early human
environment and industry and the devel-
opment of mind, of the remote antiquity
OF the human powers of observation, OF
discovery, and of invention"
The Yellowstone National Park, Hiram
/ Martin Chittenden, Bngadier- General
United States Army (Retired)
! a final, enlarged and completely revised
edition of the work originally published in
1898. A book equally interesting to those
who have visited this greatest and most
wonderful of our National Reservations
to those who intend TO visit~it, and &c
those who have no expectation of ever
seeing 1T. In admirable literary form II
gives the picturesque history of the parI
region from the time, now well towards q
century ago, when it was first visited by
white men, and conveys a vivid pen pic
ture of all those natural wonders which
so deeply move the modern beholder.r II
is singular fact that the daring pioneer.
who first penetrated to this region did not
tell the full story of its wonders on then
return because they knew that if they die
so they would be speedily set down a,
Munchausen liars.