Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-04-28

'chipmunks when their mothers leave
them to shift for themselves? And
what kind of food do grizzly cubs
like best?
These and many other questions Of
much interest are answered in Enos
Mills Being Good to BearsY
(Houghton). 1t is a new book in
the Riverside Literature Series a lit.
tie volume of S0-odd pages, equally
good for graded school use and for
home rading, both amusing and cor
rect in its natural history
Mr. Mills is one of our nature low
ers whom | have never heard accused
of taking" He is still young man
as compared with Burroughs, Bur-
bank, and Muir. And he is a west
erner, born in Kansas City. He is
seIf-educated, and has never married.
When he was only IA he made a
home for himself in a cabin on
+ Longs peak, Colorado, the scene of
. the bear and chipmunk stories and
that of Scotty, the collie, in this new
book Of his He has climbed that
peak nearly 800 times, and tramped
through the widest parts of the
Rocky mountains alone and without
a gun The government employed
him for some years as state snow OBJ
server for Colorado. For years, too,
through his lectures and magazine
articles, he has urged the protection
of the wild life of our continent
birds, flowers, trees, animals-and
the preservation of the wonderful
beauty of wild scenery by the estab-
llshment of state and national parks
and preserves. He has been known,
since 1915, as THE Father of the
Rocky Mountain National Park" be-
cause of the prominent part he took
in its establishment His pamphlets
on forestry, mountain climbing, and
similar subjects are familiar to de-
voices of the open, and much of his
experience is told in his books: THE
Spell of the Rockies, " wild Life in
the Rockies" THE Story of Estees
Park, In Beaver World" THE
Story of a Thousand-Year Pine"
Rocky Mountain Wonderland.
will it not be in days to come
the glory of the free English
speaking people, to whom Provi-
dence has given the widest influ-
ence, and Herewith the greatest re-
sponsibiIity, that any group of peo-
pies has ever received, if they should
join in using that influence to guide |
the feet of all mankind into the way
of peace said Viscount Bryce in his
inaugural address of the Sir George |
Watson chair of American history. |
literature and institutions in Eng
lish universities, now just issued by
the Macmillan Co. as a book entitled |
The Study of American History"
($1.5O).
Is it not a heartening thing that
any one man should care so much
for the establishment of more I'M
derstanding relations between Eng
land and America as to give $780,
600 to that end, as Sir George Wat
son did? 1t is something uncom-
mon in a lecture endowment, too,
not being given to one man for life.
or period of years, or to one uni
Versity Instead for one or two
years in succession American or
British scholars or public men-the
best intellectual resources of the
two cOuntries-will lecture in the
various universities of Great Brit
ain.
Viscount Bryce shows the basis
OF much of tie misunderstanding
and instrumentation in his home land
as TO American life, politics, ideals.
and he shows also how small is the
real divergence between the two ma
tons in essentials. in spite of the
threat to American economic. .scfal,
and political life from South Euro
pean immigration
They are still unassimilated." he
says, and have not yet had time to
affect what may be called the nor
NAL type of the American people. It
remains to be seen how soon, and
in what way they will affect it.