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described by an unnamed writer in " Wolf-Hunting and 

 Wild Sports of Brittany." Baillie-Grohman's " Sport in 

 the Alps " is devoted to the mountain game of Central 

 Europe, and is, moreover, a mine of curious hunting lore, 

 most of which is entirely new to men unacquainted with 

 the history of the chase in Continental Europe during 

 the last few centuries. An entirely novel type of ad- 

 venture was set forth in Lament's " Seasons with the Sea 

 Horses," wherein he described his hunting in arctic waters 

 with rifle and harpoon. Lloyd's " Scandinavian Ad- 

 ventures " and " Northern Field Sports," and Whishaw's 

 " Out of Doors in Tsar Land," tell of the life and game 

 of the snowy northern forests. Chapman has done ex- 

 cellent work for both Norway and Spain. It would 

 be impossible even to allude to the German and French 

 books on the chase, such as the admirable but rather 

 technical treatises of Le Couteulx de Canteleu. More- 

 over, these books for the most part belong rather in the 

 category which includes English fox-hunting literature, 

 not in that which deals with big game and the life of 

 the wilderness. This is merely to state a difference not 

 to draw a comparison ; for the artificial sports of highly 

 civilized countries are strongly to be commended for 

 their effect on national character in making good the 

 loss of certain of the rougher virtues which tend to dis- 

 appear with the rougher conditions. 



In Mr. Edward North Buxton's two volumes of 

 " Short Stalks " we find the books of a man who is a 

 hardy lover of nature, a skilled hunter, but not a game- 

 butcher; a man who has too much serious work on hand 



