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[Publications sent to this office, treating upon subjects that come within 

 the scope of the paper, will receive special attention. The receipt of all 

 books delivered at our Editorial Rooms will be promptly acknowledged 

 in the next issue. Publishers will confer a favor by promptly advising 

 us of any omission in this resvecl. Prices 'of [books inserted when 



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FOR THB HOLIDAYS— RICH BOOKS, ETC. 



We resume our special list of booksellers, and have the pleasure to pre- 

 sent to notice at this time, D. Appleton & Co.'s rich and valuable list of 

 books for the holiday season. All our friends will give them a call on 

 this New Year season. It will be richly worth a tarry of an hour in this 

 great book mart. Many of our readers who have never had a peep within 

 this great warehouse of literature, should visit this place and take the 

 boys and girls with them, and please them for once again at this season 

 for holiday presents . For the older young men, place in their hands 

 William H. Seward's "Travels Around the World.' 1 For the younger 

 readers yon can select from the magazines and monthlies. First, the 

 Science Montldy, with all its illustrated papers, fitting present for our 

 college presidents, as well as our first scientists. A perfect library of 

 the rich and rare are here to select from; works of different kinds in 

 Natural History, Chemistry, the Arts, and amusing miscellany of all 

 prices to suit all purses, from the magnificent and costly "Picturesque 

 America" to the modest %\ treasures of knowledge, too numerous to men- 

 tion, are here invitingly spread before you, for the good of all who may 

 desire to while away an houi in their delightful rooms. 



The last, though not least in tastefuliexecution and beauty of illustra- 

 tion, we note as the hook, par excellence for the gift of the Christmas and 

 New Year season, is the "Midsummer-Night's Dream," and although the 

 subject may have been a dream, this fine bijou is a reality, such as any 

 one would be glad to receive. It will rank a No. 1 among the finest 

 books for presentation. We regret the short limits of our holiday notes 

 will not allow us to say all we wish of this fine artistic work. 



G. W. Carleton & Co., as usual are prepared to fill 

 orders for all the nice books and magazines in the market. Among 

 their last we have "The Little Wanderers," a fine book for our little 

 folks; delightful stories are there for old and young. "Fanny Fern," a 

 memorial volume, by James Parton.full of deeply interesting reminiscen- 

 ces for all who loved to read the ever-bright and healthful truths of Fanny 

 Fern. A well written, well compiled book, and it will be well received 

 by her many friends. 



Among other attractive works we notice, as deservedly popular, 

 "A Wonderful Woman," "True as steel," "Kenneth, My King," an ex- 

 ceedingly interesting new novel by Miss Sallie A Brock, that ranks 

 among the very best works of modern American fiction. Price $1 75. 

 "Purple and Fine Linen," a remarkable new novel by Edgar Faw- 

 eett. The dramatic vigor, brilliant style and fearless manner with 

 which the most delicate subjects are handled, places this author at 

 once in the front rank of modern nevelists; $1 75. "Clifford Troup," 

 anew novel of absorbing interest by Mrs. Westmorelaud of Georgia, 

 author of "Heart Hungry," which had such an enormeus sale last 

 year; price $175. "Love" (L' Amour). A translation of Michelet's 

 wonderful book (L' Amour), author of "Woman" (La Femme). Such 

 audacity and delicacy, sueh vigorous analysis and tender sentiment, 

 were scarcely ever before so artistically combined; $1 50, and many 

 others. 



J. B. Lippincott & Co., 715 and 717 Market street, 

 Philadelphia, and 25 Bond street, New York City, offer many of the very 

 flrst-class woiks for the New Year, and for the quoted prices will send at 

 aight any of their books, among which we can recommend as deserving 

 particular notice, the following worthy new books: 



"World of Anecdote Library," by Edwin Paxton Hood. Anecdotes of 

 Things Popular, Scientific, Professional, Moral and Religious. 4 

 toIb. 12mo, bound in extra cloth, $6 the set. "Ferdinand and Isa- 

 bella." Complete in three volumes, being the first of au en- 

 tirely new and revised edition of Prescott's works, now being issued 

 in monthly volumes. 12mo. With plates, Elegantly printed, and 

 bound in extra cloth, with printed ornamentation ; $2 25 per volume. 

 "Lady Bell.'' A story of the last century. By the author of "Cito- 

 yenne Jacqueline," "Sheridan's Works." With memoir and portrait. 

 6vo. Printed from large, clear type, extra cloth, $3 50. 



Lippincott & Co.'s shelves are full of the best variety of books, 

 suitable to the coming season, and if our friends will please procure a 

 catalogue of their books, they will find a rich variety from which to make 

 a selection. 



Dodd & Mead have a large array of timely, pleasant 

 fireside companions for Christmas, bearing curious, quaint, and taking; 

 titles for their patrons, old and young. Among their nice books we 

 commend to our readers, as just the book for a present, "The Women of 

 the ArabB," and dedicated to Christian women, a really beautiful and 

 valuable work. "Kit Carson" is one of a series of volumes to appear in 

 good style and illustration, called the "Pioneer Series," and these books 

 will sell wherever the adventurous and patriotic sons of America are to 

 be found. Dodd & Mead's books are always considered among the best 

 in the book market, and you can here expend your $1 or your $100, 

 with the assurance of always obtaining your money's worth. All the 

 very latest novels and holiday presento of the season may here be found 

 awaiting your orders. ' 



Silver and Gold. By Dr. R. W. Raymond. New York: 



T. B. Ford & Co. 



This is a valuable scientific work, containing a very full and concise 

 account of mining and metals in the United States, the precious metals 

 and the manner of working the mines, and much other information not 

 to te obtained from any other source. This worK comprises three parts. 

 The irst gives you a very plain and true statement of the mining indus- 

 tries -f California, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Arizonia, 

 New Mt-| COj Colorado and Wyoming. This is by no means a dry sub- 

 ject; the K<i e r will find topics of great interest to him in the very first 

 part of the w^. p arfc 8econ( j. treats of the grand results of the working 

 of all these metc ? amalgamation of gold ores, and the production of 

 native silver, wit, manv ther subjects of interest to the casual reader. 

 The third part isth "Miscellaneous," so called, and here you have in- 

 formation not to "Sbtained from any other source. There is much 

 thought in this finely v^ tten work . ourll0 p e j s that no "small potato" 

 "red tape" economy sha^ suffered to throw obstacles in the way of 

 euch valuable researches a^ r Raymond here so briefly sketches. Give 

 him means to pursue his n, resting exp i ora ti ns, to the end that the 



Government may reap some o hg benefit8 of hi8 arduoug labors. 



South Sea Idyls. By CL. leg Warren gtoddard. 1 vol. 



18mo. In "The Saunterer 8 Sen „ ^ 5Q ^^ ^ R Qsgood 



& Co. 



Upon first taking up this book we a & ^ ^ determine whether 

 we are dealing with fact or fiction, a pr0 g r e S g, however, like the 

 searcher after hidden pearls, we eaten i. g Qf the rk]i #re be _ 

 vond. The work isasene. of sketches of t the Sandwich Islandg 

 it is not a biography, or an ind ^ dua \£f ^S of one man or family, 

 but it tells us of| roving nomadiacs, who _appe . ^ ^^ _ 



ualor shadowy beings, than real material «^ disciple of 



pleasure, the lover of a dreamy life, of a Mahomet ^ ^ ^ 

 to their heart's content, can live m no fears of a tt * . 

 joys of to day give no thought of the future. Live , 

 the motto of this book, and a bountif ul nat are pours o ^ y 

 ures at the feet of the explorer. Here rich fnutj .bend th£ 

 trees to the touch of the eater. The ^^^f^^are quite 

 ^^^^^^ZS^^ r=tori^and 



dise opens its doors to him. The book is filled with curious, quaint ad- 

 ventures . Barring some faults of grammatical construction and crude il- 

 lusions, the book, as a whole, is one that may be truly called amusing 

 and readable. 



Doing His Best. By J. T. Towbridge. Illustrated. 



16mo. Boston: J. E. Osgood & Co. 



This, like all of our friend Towbridge's works, is a live book, and 

 written with an aim to amuse and instruct. The story of "Jack Haz- 

 ard" is continued, and Jack is shown to be a live Jack in his various oc- 

 cupations during his school and agricultural life. Who will not laugh 

 over his circus adventure and its amusing finale? Everyone— the boys 

 in particular— will be pleased with this book. We opine our versatile 

 author, J. T. T., had this very thought in his mind: "I will give the 

 boys a Christmas treat," and well has he done it. He has depicted the 

 big elephant, the caravan, and the numerous other stories for boys, in 

 his own inimitable, humorous manner, and you can't help laughing 

 whether you will or not. The finale of the elephant show is a serio- 

 comic episode, a passing accident that occurs once, perhaps in a boy's 

 life, and is a healthful story, well told. 



Miss Forrester. By Mrs. Annie Edwards. 8vo. 



New York: Sheldon & Co. 



Miss Forrester is unfortunately the daughter of an English gambler 

 and a French woman, whose early education was much of it received in 

 the streets of Paris. She, by fortunate circumstances, reached the posi- 

 tion of a ballet dancer, and later in her career she was induced to accept 

 the very equivocal one of a gay decoy to a celebrated gambling house in 

 Hamburg. These scenes soon tired upon her restless disposition, and a 

 dislike to her surroundings induced her to leave this unsatisfactory mode 

 of life. Leaving Hamburg, we next find her the companion of a wealthj 

 English lady. Here the old role is again enacted. She resolves to take 

 a position in life. "Why should I not?" is the burden of her thought. 

 She is not long in making up her mind that Henry Bryanstone, a rich ar- 

 istocratic gentleman, is just the man to make her happy, and she soon 

 seeks means for an introduction to him. The friends of Bryanstone are 

 not particularly willing he should marry Miss Forrester, and hs knows 

 just what they think of the game she is playing. However, he marries 

 her, and they have been married but a short time when the husband 

 hears nnmistakable and unpleasant rumors concerning his wife, and here 

 commences plot and counterplot, which constitute the interest of the 

 book. 



Wandering Willie. New York: Scribner, Armstrong 



& Co. 



This quiet, idylic story of English humble life, is full of natural 

 pathos and exquisite pen painting; in some of its parts almost painfully 

 intensified. Caleb's wooing may be read with profit; it is in deed and in 

 truth a beautiful love story. Everyone who carefully reads this must 

 love Elfida, that noble, strong-hearted maiden, so very unlike most other 

 maidens, so true to every noble principle of womanly character and re- 

 fining instincts. "Willie" is a very good character, yet we perceive not 

 the least appearance of perfection in this good boy. He is, however, 

 "too good" for a hero. The story in all its points is good and well told. 



Northern Lights. Stories from Swedish and Flemish 

 authors. Translated by SeJma Borg and Maria A. Brown. Phila. 

 Porter & Coates. 



As we open the covers of this new candidate for public favor, we find 

 it one of the higher class of romantic stones for the young and children 

 of a larger growth. Hans Christian Anderson is a name to hold in rever- 

 ence. The good man who tells so many glorious old stories and moving 

 tales comes before the literary public as a benevolent Santa Claus*, the 

 Christmas story-teller, the good genius of the New Year. A rare book is 

 "Northern Lights." Full of sparkling stories of the first water, and 

 most clearly translated, and published in elegant style and illustrations. 



Aftermath. A new volume of Poems. By Henry 



Wadsworth Longfellow. 16mo. Boston: J. E. Osgood & Co. 



This work is destined to be well received, being a third and final series 

 of "Tales of a Wayside Inn," a very varied and most charming collection 

 of stories, as every one knows. This book will much confirm the fame of 

 its well known author, and lay the reading public, and all lovers of good 

 poetry, under new obligations to him. 



ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



The Philosophy op Education; or Pedagogics as a sys- 

 tem. By Dr. Karl Rosenkranz, Professor of Philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Konigsberg. Translated from the German by Anna C. 

 Brackett: Gray, Baker & Co., St. Louis, Mo., 1873. 



Scribner, Armstrong & Co. Library of choice fiction. 

 "The Burgomaster's Family," a very delightful picture of Dutch life. 



HansBrinker; or The Silver Skates. A story of Hol- 

 land. By Mary Mapes Dodge. Miss Dodge ie the editor of Scribner's 



new magazine, the St. Nicholas. 



Wonttjs; or The Corps of Observation. By Col. Wm. 

 M. Eunkel. A very humorous novel : J. B. Lippincott & Co., Phila- 

 delphia. 



Ballads for Little Folks. By Alice and Pocebe 

 Cary. Collected and published by Hurd & Houghton. A nice holi- 

 day book. 



— Happy now are the children whose thoughtful parents have bought 

 for them "Avilude, or Game of Birds." They gather around the table 

 with bright eyes and smiling faces as it's announced, "We are to have a 

 game of Avilude." A whole winter of enjoyment combined with in- 

 struction, for seventy-five cents. Sent post paid on receipt of price, bv 

 West and Lee, Worcester, Mass. 



—Along the line of the Grand Trunk Railroad, between 

 the Island Pond Station and the French village of Canti- 

 cock, in Canada, a distance of eighteen miles, the country 

 is almost an unbroken forest, and wild animals are fre- 

 quently seen beside the road staring in wonder at the pass- 

 ing trains, while deer,_ foxes, lynxes, and wolves often 

 bound across the rails in front of the locomotive. Some 

 years since the latter animals were remarkably plenty, 

 sometimes appearing in droves of a dozen or twenty. 



One evening, late in the autumn, a young man had occa- 

 sion to pass along this lonesome way on foot, and had not 

 accomplishad more than half the distance when he heard 

 a crackling in the bushes at the side of the track, denot- 

 ing the presence of some wild animal. Thinking to fright- 

 en the creature he threw a stone towards the place where it 

 appeared to be. 



This was answered by a howl from the wolf, for such it 

 was; and what added to the discomfort of the situation, 

 various other howls were echoed and re-echoed by wolves 

 from all sides, and they soon began to close in around the 

 now thoroughly frightened man, who started on a run, but 

 was soon^bliged to slacken his pace from sheer exhaustion. 

 Although the packfof wolves now numbered about twenty, 

 they still, for some reason, failed to attack him, but sur- 

 rounded him at the distance ot a few paces, each moment 

 growing bolder and bolder. In his desperation he picked 

 up stones and threw toward them, at which they would 

 scatter for a brief period, and he would make another effort 

 to escape them, which, however, would prove useless, for 

 as soon as he turned to run they would again surround him, 

 and the only method by which he could keep them at bay 

 was to keep up the shower of missiles, shouting at the top 

 of his voice. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



This paper is a model of typographical neatness, and its contents are 

 sufficiently varied and interesting to secure for it a cordial reception 

 from that class of the public to whose taste it caters. — [New York Times. 



It is a handsome sheet of sixteen large pages, and is filled with a va- 

 riety of very interesting reading.— [New York Sun. 



There is need for a new advocate to make the American people more in 

 love with outdoor life, and Forest and Stream promises to do the work 

 admirably. The various departments are edited with knowledge and 

 skill.— [New York Journal of Commerce. 



The publication of a new sporting journal, Forest and Stream, ie 

 another evidence of the increasing love of our people for the sports of 

 the field and athletic exercise. There is every evidence that good fortune 

 awaits the new-comer. That this should be so is a source of congratula- 

 tion. — [New York Express. 



Its preposessing appearance is no slight confirmation of its claim to a 

 high and manly tone in its conduct— [Home Journal. 



It is tastefully arranged and handsomely printed, and seems to be well 

 adapted- to persons of cultivated tastes. — [New York Tribune. 



Mr. Hallock is an enthusiastic sportsman, a good writer, and compe- 

 tent to make a "sporting paper" fit for household reading.— [New York 

 Commercial Advertiser. 



We commend with special earnestness the claims of Forest and 

 Stream to favorable attention. — [The South. 



We may safely predict its success.— [New Orleans Home Journal. 



It is neat as to typography and varied and interesting as to contents. 

 —[Hartford Times. 



The matter of the sample number is both appropriate and interesting . 

 —[Brooklyn (E.D.) Times. 



It is a necessary publication, and we welcome its birth with open arms. 

 It occupies its own position, intruding upon no pre-occupied ground, but 

 it is an elevated position. To sportsmen of the gun and fishing-rod it will 

 oe invaluable. — [Brooklyn Eeview. 



Got up in a handsome manner, both as to presswork and arrangement 

 of contents. — [Philadelphia Ledger. 



It is decidedly the most recherche thing of the kind ever issued in this 

 country, and so far as we know is the peer of anything similar in Eng- 

 land. All its departments show a practical and intellectual filling up 

 which challenges general favor.— [Germantown Telegraph. 



Judging by the number before us we can unhesitatingly recommend the 

 Forest and Stream to all who take an interest in out-door recreation 

 and physical culture. It will no doubt merit the patronage of our sport- 

 ing gentlemen.— [Every Evening, (Wilmington, Delaware). 



The terms are very reasonable for such a large and necessarily expen 

 sive paper. We commend it to our sportsmen friends most heartily. We 

 like the ring of its editorials, evidently written by the true lover of nature 

 in its multiplied and beautiful forms.— [Niagara Falls Gazette. 



There is a standard of excellence and usefulness not yet attained by 

 any sporting paper in the country, and Forest and Stream will find its 

 success at the top of the ladder. — [New York Graphic. 



It covers ground not occupied by any other journal.— [Waterloo (New 

 York) Observer. 



Sincerely hope it will live long and prosper. It certainly deserves 

 success.— Springfield (Mass.) Union. 



Health, longevity, and happiness largely depend upon such open air 

 pursuits, and a journal like this is the best means to effect the object.— 

 Portland (Me.) Argus. 



WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. 



I hope you will meet with entire success in your project. My days of 

 active life in the field and forest have gone by, but I recall my experience 

 with pleasure, and I feel that I owe my health in a good degree to early 

 habits of free exercise in the open air in forests and along our streams. 

 —[Horatio Seymour. 



There is a demand for just such a paper as this. It will give me very 

 great pleasure, indeed, to do all I can to help your journal.— [Professor 

 S. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institute. 



I have no doubt that Forest and Stream will have a large circulation. 

 Consider me a subscriber.— [George A. Boardman, Naturalist. 



Such a journal, conducted upon the principles and with the spirit which 

 you announce, will certainly find warm support.— [Eev. J. Clement 

 French. 



I have no doubt you will make it a marked success.— [Hon. J. D. Caton. 



I wish you the best sort of success in your effort to make a journal of 

 out-door sports such as a gentleman can read and write in.— [Charles D. 

 Warner. 



I doubt not it will be a great success. It is wanted, and must be called 

 for.— [Major John H. King, U.S.A. 



I have long wished just such a journal to receive into my family, that 

 my boys may learn from a better teacher than myself the best way in 

 which to follow the sports that in years past have given me so much plea- 

 sure. — [Henry W. Abbott, Boston. 



Under your management it ought to be a success.— [W. H. Venning, 

 Inspector Marine and Fisheries, Canada. 



You shall have all the aid and comfort I can give you in your enter- 

 prise.— [Com. L. A. BeardBlee. Washington Navy Yard. 



I must congratulate you on the very attractive appearance of yonr 

 paper. Keep it up to the standard you have marked out for it, and it will 

 become an assured success.— [Eev. Charles F: Deems. 



Nothing but the exigencies of my roving life have prevented me fron, 

 starting, or trying to sflart, just such a journal as yours. You shall have 

 my hearty co-operation.— [Professor Elliott Coues, Smithsonian Institute. 



Your paper is just what we have long wanted, and will take well in the 

 Southern States.— [Dr. E. P. Myers, Savannah, Ga. 



The editorial matter, the contributions, and the make-up and general 

 appearance of the paper are just such as Fishrod and Nimrod admire. 

 — [Genio C. Scott. 



I am glad to hear of your literary enterprise. It will give me pleasure 

 to put you, or any one else representing the Forest and Stream, in the 

 way of getting information for your paper.— [Andrew H. Green, Comp- 

 troller, and Central Park Com'r. 



" I take the heartiest interest in Forest and Strevm. I have always 

 thought that an Americvn " Land fand Water" was needed, and that 

 many valuable observations are yearly lost, through the want of some 

 such medium of communication between field-naturalists . "—Prof . G. 

 Browne Goode, Middletown Unviersity. 



I wish the Forest and Stream every success, and will be most happy 

 to lend any assistance m my power to make it so.— Hon. Eobert B. 

 Eoosevelt. 



Success to your enterprise. I think the field is a broad one, and not 

 yet occupied to any good purpose.— Prof . N. A. Newton. Yale College. 



You have got a handsome paper, and one admirably made up. I hone 

 you will continue in your success.— J. M. Bailey, Editor Danbury News. 



—''That single barrel gun killed for me this morning six 

 rabbits. The other club I have promised to start is looking 

 well. If it takes two months to get in the Sharpe rifle I 

 shall be satisfied. As a start I send you $25 and names." 

 This is from a young gentleman in Boston. A Prize given 

 with «very subscription. 





