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York ; the Kev. Dr. Yan Dyke ; the Eight Eev. Mgr. 

 Paquet, of Laval University ; the Eev. Dr. Converse, 

 of Hobart College, Geneva, K Y.; the Eev. Dr. 

 Smith, of Washington, and scores of others that could 

 be mentioned, have been regular visitors and anglers 

 in the land of the ouananiche. Mr. W. E. Hodgson, 

 in the National Review, in the course of an article 

 on the " Immorality of Evolutionary Ethics," crosses 

 swords with Herbert Spencer on the question of the 

 ethics of field sports, and a recent writer in the Field 

 says: 



"If lessening of the sum total of pain be the object to be ob- 

 tained, then man is the best executioner. After all, fish, flesh, and 

 fowl must perish, either at his or nature's hands, and a Jock Scott, 

 an express bullet, or a charge of No. 6 puts an end to the quarry, 

 quite as mercifully as an otter, a lion, or a falcon. And if Mr. 

 Spencer shares, as we believe he does, the opinion of Ouida, that 

 sport, ' by inducing callousness, vitiates social life,' all that we can 

 say is that we do not agree with him, and hold the wringing of a 

 bird's neck or the cutting of a sheep's throat to be far more bru- 

 talizing than the pulling of a trigger." 



During recent hunting seasons, Mr. McCarthy, of 

 Syracuse, and Mr. Curtis, of New York, have been 

 very successful in their caribou-hunting in the vicinity 

 of Lake Batiscan. Mr. Archibald Stuart, of Scotland, 

 killed several head in the vicinity of La Belle Eiviere, 

 always a favorite haunt of these animals, and hundreds 

 of other specimens have fallen at various points be- 

 tween Quebec and Lake St. John. 



Moose are much more scarce than they formerly 

 were, though every season sees a number of them 

 killed by sportsmen, principally in La Belle Eiviere 

 district, to the southeast of Lake St. John, and some 



