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 listing 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 

 waters with rifle and harpoon. Lloyd's " Scandinavian 

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

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

 game of the snowy northern forests. Chapman has done 

 good 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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