

’ PUBLISHER'S 
{HE WESTERN INDIAN AS HE APPEARS 
‘ TO-DAY. 
On another page of this issue will be 
seen a pen sketch representing Indian 
life in the far West as it appears to- 
day. The sketch is a reproduction from a 
pen drawing by Charles M. Russell, the 
famous cowboy artist. Mr. Russell has 
few equals for accurate portrayal of West- 
ern life. 
The artist has produced 12 pen sketches 
which have been published in book form, 
on heavy kid board and beautifully bound 
in cloth or morocco. Size of book 11 
by 14 inches, each picture being suitable 
for framing. 
This superb production has been placed 
on the market by the W. T. Ridgley 
Printing Co., of Great Falls, Mont., and 
retails at $5 for the morocco and $4 for 
the cloth binding. The work is without 
doubt the finest of the kind ever pub- 
lished and every admirer of Western and 
Indian life should own a copy of this book. 
Orders should be sent direct to the pub- 
lishers or to the large stationers of Eastera 
cities. 

TRADE NOTES. 
We have had the age of stone, the age of 
bronze, the age of iron, the age of copper, 
and several other ages. This is the age of 
art catalogues and they come so fast it is 
difficult to keep pace with them. 
One of the latest is that issued by the 
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., of Rochester, 
N. Y. It treats of lenses in great variety; 
of ray filters; of fieldglasses, opera glasses, 
microscopes, prisms, iris diaphragm shut- 
ters, focusing and retouching glasses, etc. 
There is too much in it to be told in this 
small space. The only way to know its 
full value is to send for a copy of it, and 
mention RECREATION. There are 3 full- 
page photogravures in it that are worth a 
dollar each to any lover of art. 

Another fine catalogue comes from the 
Manhattan Optical Co., Cresskill, N. J. It 
shows so many tempting pictures of fine 
cameras that one longs for an unlimited 
credit at a national bank that he may buy 
all of them. If, however, one is not so 
fortunate, he may yet have a fine camera, 
a fine lens and a Wizard shutter if he be 
only fairly well fixed. Even if he be a 
poor man he may have a Cycle Wizard, 
or a Bo-Peep, with a lens that’ will make 
good pictures. This book has severat 
full-page pictures that are interesting and 
beautiful and that contain much valuable 
food for thought on the part of-amateur 
photographers. In sending for this book 
please say you saw it mentioned in REc- 
REATION. 

DEPARTMENT. 229 
The passenger department of the D. & 
H. Railway has issued a book called ‘A 
Summer Paradise,” which describes in de- 
tail the Adirondack region, and which 
gives full and complete information re- 
garding the hunting and fishing in that 
country. It also contains a complete list 
of hotels, camps and boarding houses in 
the Adirondacks, and is embellished with 
a series of the best maps of that region 
that have ever been published. Every man 
or woman who intends to visit tie Adi- 
rondacks, for any purpose, should have a 
copy of this book. It will be sent to all 
who ask for it, mentioning RECREATION. 

RECREATION is the best magazine pub- 
lished in the interest of spertsmen. It is 
not carelessly glanced over and then 
thrown aside. It is carefully read and re- 
ligiously kept as an authority on all sub- 
jects pertaining to outdoor life, and as 
an instrument for the reformation (where 
that is possible) of game and fish hogs. 
Your monthly barbecue of swine has be- 
come a recognized institution in this coun- 
try and we watch for it, at the same time 
devoutly hoping the supply of material © 
may soon run out, and that you may be 
compelled to discontinue this particular 
branch of business. 
A. L. Vermilya, Columbiaville, Mich. 

I received the Mullins Duck Boat 
promptly. Have not used it yet, but am 
much pleased with its appearance. I have 
been told one can’t get something for 
nothing, but I think I have knocked that 
saying out; for the pleasure in getting 
subscriptionsto RECREATION—and knowing 
the good it is doing toward game protec- 
tion—more than repays me, to say nothing 
of the boat. Here’s to your success. It 
is only clear spring water, but it best rep- 
resents your work. 
S. L. Pennington, Amery, Wis. 

I send you herewith a photo which has 
caused a great deal of comment among 
our local amateurs. Holding the picture 
in the usual way you will notice on the 
right, at the water’s edge, a clay bank. 
Now turn the print so that the right hand 
end is up and in place of a clay bank you 
have almost a perfect picture of a fox’s 
head. 
The photo was taken on Decoration 
day,- just as the sun set. The scene is 
on Mill creek, above the dam, in Cam- 
bria county, Pennsylvania. 
V. M. Kemery, Johnstown, Pa. 
