Books on Big Game 



Wallihan's "Hoofs, Claws and Antlers," although Mr. 

 Wallihan greatly marred the book by combining with the 

 genuine photographs of wild game a number of "faked " 

 pictures of stuffed animals. Finally, in Parkman's " Ore- 

 gon 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 west- 

 ern lands. 



Of course, there are plenty of books on European 

 game. Scrope's " 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 excel- 

 lently 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 Cen- 

 tral 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 dur- 

 ing the last few centuries. An entirely novel type of 

 adventure is set forth in Lamont's "Seasons with the 

 Sea Horses," wherein he describes his hunting in arctic 

 v;aters with rifle and harpoon. Lloyd's " Scandinavian 

 Adventures " and " Northern Field Sports," and Whis- 

 Siiiw's "Out of Doors in Tsar Land," tell of the life and 

 .;-ame of the snowy northern forests. Chapman has done 

 -ood work for both Norway and Spain. 



Finally, we come to a book which, quite unconsciously, 

 gives us the exact model of what a big game hunter and 

 a true sportsman, who is much more than a mere sports- 

 man, should be. I mean Mr. Edward North Buxton's 

 *' Short Stalks." It is the book of a man who is a hardy 

 lover of nature, a skilled hunter, but not a game butcher; 



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