BOOK NOTICES. 



ANOTHER WILD ANIMAL BOOK. 

 E. T. Seton has given the world another 

 great book. The title of this is, "Lives 

 of the Hunted," and it deals in Mr. Seton's 

 usual effective way with the life history, 

 the trials, tribulations, joys and sufferings 

 of certain wild animals and birds with 

 which Mr. Seton has become acquainted in 

 his ramblings. 



The most interesting and important story 

 in the book is that of Krag, the Kootenay 

 ram, the story of whose death was told in 

 July Recreation, 1897. Mr. Seton has 

 gone back to the baby days of old Krag, 

 has rambled under his family tree, and has 

 then visited and associated with Krag from 

 that day to the day of his death. The 

 story is told with all the pathos and dra- 

 matic force of the trained artist-naturalist, 

 and the ardent lover of all wild creatures. 

 Sandy MacDougall, who so relentlessly 

 pursued old Krag, and who finally met his 

 death as the result of vile treachery, is 

 very properly consigned, in this story, to 

 a bed of suffering for many months, and 

 his bones are finally found moldering in the 

 old shack in which he lived. Readers of 

 Recreation will be delighted to go away 

 back on the trail, high up in the Cascade 

 mountains, and meet old Krag in the hey- 

 day of his existence. They will follow him 

 through the various stages of his life and 

 through the tragic scenes that finally ended 

 in his death, with feelings of the sincerest 

 pity. 



Other stories in Seton's latest book are, 

 "A Street Troubadour," "Johnny Bear," 

 "The Mother Teal," "Chink," "The Kanga- 

 roo Rat," "Tim," "The Story of a Coyote," 

 and "Why the Chickadee Goes Crazy 

 Once a Year." No one can read any one 

 of these stories without feeling nearer to 

 nature and without loving its wild creatures 

 more tenderly than ever before. The book 

 is illustrated in the happy and artistic man- 

 ner for which Mr. Seton has been famous 

 many years. Two of the illustrations are 

 shown on pages 186 and 187 of this issue, 

 and there are 100 others in the book equally 

 beautiful and interesting. 



A FOREST BOOK. 



Anyone who likes rambling in books as 

 well as rambling in the woods themselves 

 can profitably while away a lazy hour with 

 "Forest Trees and Forest Scenery," a 

 dainty little booklet by G. F. Schwarz, of 

 somewhat over 3,000 lines and 26 pretty 

 pictures. 



The object of the book is to bring out 

 the esthetic aspects of a few forest trees 

 and of forest scenery of different kinds, 

 pointing out the elements of beauty with a 



considerable amount of poetic sentiment 

 and reasonable accuracy of observation, re- 

 minding us of the style of Thoreau. The 

 book is divided into 6 chapters. The first 

 discusses a few broadleaf trees and cone- 

 bearers; the second chapter the minor 

 vegetation; the third explains the forest 

 types found in the United States. Two 

 chapters are devoted to a development of 

 the character of broadleaf forests and con- 

 iferous forests. The last chapter, on "The 

 Artificial Forests of Europe," is by all 

 means the best, explaining with fine per- 

 ception and appreciation the difference 

 esthetically between the wild woods and the 

 cultivated forest, and incidentally making 

 proper distinction between our National 

 and State Parks and Forest Reserves, which 

 latter are to serve mainly utilitarian pur- 

 poses, with the esthetic value secondary. 

 Published by the Grafton Press, New York. 



"Photography as a Fine Art," <by Charles 

 H. Caffin, will delight all who appreciate 

 the pictorial possibilities of the camera 

 understanding^ used. Those still willing 

 to call any photograph a picture will find 

 in the book abundant reason for more dis- 

 crimination. Mr. Caffin has selected 100 

 examples of the best work of Stieglitz, 

 Kasebier, Keiley, Eugene, Dyer, White, 

 Steichen and others. On these he com- 

 ments instructively, pointing out wherein 

 each, in his opinion, reaches or falls short 

 of true art. A study of the collection will 

 profit the amateur who desires his work to 

 be an expression of artistic individuality. 



The publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co., 

 New York, will send the book postpaid to 

 any address on approval, to be paid for or 

 returned at the recipient's option. The 

 price is $3. 



"The Road to Frontenac," by Samuel 

 Merwin, which has been running serially 

 in Leslie's Monthly Magazine, is now pub- 

 lished in book form by Doubleday, Page 

 & Co., New York. The price of this vol- 

 ume is $1.50, and the book will be sent 

 postpaid to any address on approval, to be 

 paid for if satisfactory, or to be returned 

 in case it is not wanted after examina- 

 tion. 



"Highways and Byways in the Lake 

 District," by A. G. Bradley, with illus- 

 trations by Joseph Pennell, is from the 

 press of Macmillan & Co., New York, and 

 is similar in treatment to "Highways and 

 Byways in Normandy," published by the 

 same house about a year ago. It forms an 

 interesting addition to the extensive lit- 

 erature of the English lake region. 



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