
Mr. Sandys had practically given up all 
journalistic work the better to carry on his 
more serious book writing. The stories he 
was writing for RECREATION were con- 
tributed only with the understanding that 
they were later to appear as chapters in a 
new book upon which he was at work. 
The usual advance schedule of the special 
features of the next number of RECREATION 
is omitted for the reason given in the first 
paragraph. The January number will be 
an unusually good one, nevertheless. It will 
be a special winter number, being thor- 
oughly new and timely, both in text and 
illustrations. 
We have been doing our share of plan- 
ning. And yet, even though we had the 
space we should be somewhat chary of 
making promises. No good magazine can 
be planned out in detail many months in 
advance, for the shifting of events may 
interfere with schedules. We can promise, 
however, that future numbers of RECREA- 
TION will show marked improvement: it is 
the purpose of this magazine constantly to 
be better. And if it has any other purpose, 
aside from doing its duty in behalf of the 
protection and propagation of the game and 
fish and the preservation of the forests and 
streams, it is to radiate hope and to instill 
in each of its readers a laudable ambition— 
that of leading a full life, be it ever so 
humble. In short, RECREATION is a maga- 
zine for builders, not for wasters, and as 
such it is essentially a magazine for the 
home. Its scope is broad—as broad as “all 
outdoors,’ and every member of the family 
will find in it something of interest, some- 
thing worth waiting for.- No reader can be 
so far removed, so obscured by any com- 
bination of circumstances, as not to find 
himself some day the point of impact of 
some helpful article—something aimed 
right at his head, as it were, that will have 
a tremendous influence on his life. That is 
the real, underlying mission of RECREATION 
in every home—to have influence. 
And these things are borne in mind in 
the selection of everything that is used in 
the making of this magazine. It was cus- 
tomary in the earlier management of REc- 
REATION, as it is with not a few magazines, 
to select the most available articles and 
stories from the “floating”? supply—those 
that are submitted without solicitation. But 
at best a magazine cannot, as a general 
thing, in this way obtain material that will 
conform to any fixed policy and fit into its 

a. eee 

EDWIN L. SABIN 
A Western writer who will contribute several im- 
portant articles to REcREATION during 1907 
place in the scheme of a magazine with a 
purpose. Almost everything that appears 
in RECREATION is written to order—which 
gives the reader a magazine totally different 
from and distinctly better than any other 
of its class. 
You want RECREATION. 
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