Handbuch der Landwirtschaft

Abstract

THERE is a story of how, invited to contribute to the literature of elephants, an Englishman described “Elephants I have shot; with an appendix on the ivory trade”. A Frenchman, on the other hand, wrote an intimate biography, “Samson: the Amours of an Elephant”; but a German authority, inviting the collaboration of twenty-seven of his friends, produced six volumes of a “Handbook on Elephants in Health and Disease: their History, Life, Death, and Metaphysical Implications; with some Account of the Giraffe and the Rhinoceros”. To ensure the sale of all six volumes—for it seemed possible that a specialist interested only in ivory, or in giraffes, might omit to buy the other volumes—the work was produced in some score of parts: parts contrived to include frequently the beginnings or endings of articles, rather than the complete essay, consecutiveness also being carefully avoided. Thus a student requiring the conclusion of an important article in part 3 might possibly find it in part 17.

Handbuch der Landwirtschaft.

Herausgegeben von Fr. Aereboe J. Hansen Th. Roemer. Fünf Bände. Lieferung 8, Band 1. Pp. 129–256. 5.80 gold marks. Lieferung 9, Band 2. Pp. 385–512. 5.80 gold marks. Lieferung 10, Band 4. Pp. 129–256. 5.80 gold marks. Lieferung 11, Band 2 (Schluss); Band 3. Pp. xvi + 513–564 + 129–160. 5.80 gold marks. (Berlin: Paul Parey, 1928.)