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are fifty-seven species of fern described in one book, 

 and of these the writer collected twenty-two during 

 a three-weeks' stay in the Adirondacks. Some were 

 found half way up Catamount, some on the slopes 

 of Whiteface, one or two on the face of cliffs over- 

 looking Wilmington. The memories of that Sum- 

 mer are delightful, and as we look over the specimens 

 we gathered in those wanderings, my wife and I, the 

 scenes come back to us and we live those delectable 

 days again." 



A long quotation, this, but we freely admit that 

 we could not have said it so well as has Dr. Bristow. 

 We are of those unafraid of quotations, and now 

 invite the reader to attend to this selection from 

 Edwin Sandys, borrowed from the same source as 

 the foregoing. " Fishing leads its devotee into 

 pleasant places, and because the true angler needs 

 must also be part poet, such ears, perhaps, best hear 

 the sermon of streams and stones. There are no 

 cleaner things than pure air and water, and did fish- 

 ing offer no more than these it would be entitled to 

 consideration. But it does much more, for of it 

 might truly be said: Its ways are pleasant; its 

 paths are peaceful which means much. 



" The more important fishes of our fresh waters, 

 grouped according to habitat, include the salmon, 

 trout, ouananiche, and the grayling, of rapid rivers 

 and brooks and cold lakes of the rock-bound regions; 



various field books; etc. Of course he already has made the acquaintance 

 of John Burroughs. 



