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therefrom in reference to the hunter's craft. The Cen- 

 tury Co.'s volume " Sport With Gun and Rod " contains 

 accounts of the chase of most of the kinds of American 

 big game, although there are two or three notable omis- 

 sions, such as the elk, the grizzly bear, and the white 

 goat. Warburton Pike, Caspar Whitney, and Frederick 

 Schwatka have given fairly full and very interesting ac- 

 counts of boreal sport; and Pendarves Vivian and Baillie- 

 Grohman of hunting trips in the Rockies. A new and 

 most important departure, that of photographing wild 

 animals in their homes, was marked by Mr. Wallihan's 

 " Camera Shots at Big Game." This is a noteworthy 

 volume. Mr. Wallihan was the pioneer in a work which 

 is of the utmost importance to the naturalist, the man 

 of science; and what he accomplished was far more 

 creditable to himself, and of far more importance to 

 others, than any amount of game-killing. Finally, in 

 Parkman's " Oregon Trail " and Irving's " Trip on the 

 Prairie," two great writers have left us a lasting record 

 of the free life of the rifle-bearing wanderers who first 

 hunted in the wild Western lands. 



Though not hunting-books, John Burroughs' writ- 

 ings and John Muir's volumes on the Sierras should be 

 in the hands of every lover of outdoor life, and there- 

 fore in the hands of every hunter who is a nature lover, 

 and not a mere game-butcher. 



Of course, there are plenty of books on European 

 game. Scrope's a Art of Deerstalking," Bromley Daven- 

 port's " Sport," and all the books of Charles St. John, 

 are classic. The chase of the wolf and boar is excellently 



