486 RECREATION 
Going to buy that new shotgun this season ? 
If so, and you haven’t made up your mind 
what make to select, write to the Ithaca Gun 
Co., Ithaca, N. Y., for its free art catalogue. 
If you want a cheap gun or if you want a costly 
one, this concern can supply your wants; for 
it makes fine guns for everybody at every price 
ranging from a small minimum to $300, and 
all are guaranteed, right down to the smallest 
screw. 
A few days ago a friend from out of town 
came in to see us and, after some conversation, 
remarked, ‘‘I’m going to get a motor car.”” We 
expressed polite surprise and our cue was 
naturally to ask, ‘‘What kind are you going to 
get?” After some thought he replied, “‘ Well, 
I don’t know. There are so many kinds, every 
one ‘the best on the market,’ that I haven’t 
been able to decide. I think, though, that it 
will be one of the Pope cars.” ‘‘What made 
you pick them out?” we asked. He took a long 
pull at his pipe and slowly replied, ‘‘ Well, I’ve 
always tried to be a sportsman, and I’ve always 
tried to take my successes and defeats just 
alike—without either shouting or kicking. 
And so I admire any one who can take his 
medicine without a murmur, and that’s what 
the Pope people did when their car was un- 
justly ruled out of the Vanderbilt Cup race. 
I admire them for it, and I am going to write 
to the Pope Manufacturing Company, at 
Hartford, Conn., and let them ‘show me.’ ” 

A great many of our readers write us and ask 
where they can get particular supplies. They 
ask for fishing tackle, guns, ammunition, 
cameras, kodaks or sporting equipment. of 
some sort or other, which is, perhaps, a little 
different, a little better, a little lighter or 
heavier than the general run of such things. If 
you chance to be one of the particular class, 
we ask you first to write to Von Lengerke & 
Detmold, 349 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 
before you write to us, and then if they have not 
got it, why—but they have it. 
in the Woeode 
or in the mountains, no matter how far from 
civilization, fresh milk can always be had if 
foresight is used in packing the outfit. Borden’s 
Peerless Evaporated-Cream in cans keeps in- 
definitely until opened and answers every pur- 
pose. It is pure, rich milk, condensed to the 
consistency of cream, put up ‘without sugar and 
preserved by sterilization only. 
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NEW BOOKS 
At last ““The Dog Book,” by James Watson, 
for which dog fanciers have been waiting since 
the publishing of Part I in a paper cover, is out. 
Of course, and as is already generally known 
among the fraternity, it is far and away the 
best popular treatise on the dog that has been 
published, either in America or abroad. There 
are two heavy volumes, of almost 400 pages 
each, and hundreds of superb illustrations from 
photographs, paintings and rare engravings. 
Preceding the sixty-one chapters, each devoted 
to a separate breed, are chapters under the 
headings: ‘‘Early History of the Dog,” “The 
Dog in the House,” ‘Exhibition Dogs,” 
‘‘Management of Shows,” ‘Buying a Dog,” 
“Karly Spaniels and Setters” and “Training a 
Field Dog.” A glossary of technical terms is 
appended for the use of the lay reader. 
The chief claim for the work, as distin- 
guishing it from all other treatises on the dog, 
is that the author’s conclusions are drawn from 
years of careful and elaborate research. 
Furthermore, Mr. Watson may be said to be— 
in his book—in no wise biased or opinionated. 
When we remember the dog man’s proverbial 
bent for controversy, and considering the 
author’s long experience as judge, breeder, and - 
reporter of bench shows, it would not have been 
strange to find the contrary. Published by 
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York 
What promises to be the most important 
book of the year, from the viewpoint of the 
hunter of big game, is ‘‘Campfires in the 
Canadian Rockies,” by Wm. T. Hornaday. 
It relates the experiences of this well-known 
zoologist and sportsman, and John M. Phillips, 
Pennsylvania game commissioner and founder 
of the Lewis and Clark Club, while hunting in 
British Columbia. A feature of the book is 
the illustrations from photographs of live wild 
mountain goats made by Mr. Phillips at the 
risk of his life. The text, of course, is as 
valuable as an addition to natural history as 
it is interesting as a story, and both Mr. 
Hornaday and Mr. Phillips are deserving of 
the praise of the fraternity in producing a work 
which contains such important and interesting 
additions to the life history of the Rocky 
Mountain goat. Published by Charles Scrib- 
ner’s Sons, New York City. 
