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RECREA TION. 



total number will be small. Most users of 

 the book would no doubt gladly exchange 

 about 6 pages of the cook's discourse for a 

 good index, such as no book of this char- 

 acter should ever be without. 



Really, it is a pity to see these handsome 

 volumes of the " Fur, Fin and Feather 

 Series" so provokingly defective when a 

 little more judgment on the part of the pub- 

 lishers would make them fair models for 

 works of their kind. 



The Trout. By the Marquis of Granby, 

 Colonel F. H. Custance and A. I. Shand. 

 Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 

 i2mo. Cloth, ii plates and numerous dia- 

 grams. Pp. 272. 



PICTURE TAKING AND PICTURE MAKING. 



Under this title the Eastman Kodak Co. 

 has issued a little book that is of great value 

 to amateur photographers. 



Realizing the growing desire of many 

 amateurs to do better work, the publishers 

 have endeavored to help them make not 

 mere photographs, but pictures. The book 

 covers not only the technical but the more 

 artistic side of photography and contains 

 many reproductions from pictures by the 

 best photographic workers, thus illustrating 

 practically the lessons which it draws. 



The subject of lenses and stops is covered 

 fully, so far as it applies to the equipment 

 of the ordinary hand camera. There is an ex- 

 haustive chapter on the photographing of 

 moving objects which will give the beginner 

 an idea of the lines on which he can work 

 successfully and will save him many plates 

 and films by telling what cannot be accom- 

 plished with ordinary apparatus. The first 

 principles of portrait and landscape work are 

 laid down and much space is devoted to 

 flash-light work. 



The directions for developing films and 

 plates are complete and concise; there is a 

 chapter on bromide enlarging and another 

 on making lantern slides. 



To the subject of printing especial atten- 

 tion has been given. The manipulation of 

 gelatine and collodion printing-out papers, 

 of developing-out and blue print papers is 

 covered carefully and to these have been 

 added 4 special articles, by world famous 

 amateurs, which alone are worth more to 

 the ambitious beginner than the price of the 

 book. It is a book that will help. 



The Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y., price, 50 cents. 



A HANDSOME CALENDAR. 



The Passenger Department of the Grand 

 Trunk Railway has issued one of the most 

 beautiful calendars I have ever seen. It con- 

 tains a fine photogravure, 6 inches high by 

 10 inches wide, showing a magnificent view 

 of Niagara Falls and of a portion of the 

 rapids. In the foreground is shown the 

 Grand Trunk steel bridge with 2 trains — a 

 passenger and a freight — an electric trolley 



car and several teams crossing. A number 

 of pedestrians are also shown on the bridge 

 and all photographed sharply and accurately. 

 On the left wall of the canyon is shown the 

 new trolley railway line with several cars in 

 motion and the terminus of the incline rail- 

 way by which passengers reach this line. 



People who have never seen the Falls 

 would find this picture exceedingly inter- 

 esting and instructive, and those who have 

 been there would treasure it as a delightful 

 souvenir. Send for it, mentioning Recrea- 

 tion. Address W. E. Davis, G. P. A., 

 Montreal, Can. 



HOW TO TALK STRAIGHT. 



Every one who has occasion to speak, to 

 study or to write needs Alfred Ayers' 2 

 books, " The Orthoepist " and " The Ver- 

 balist," Mr. Ayers is recognized as the lead- 

 ing authority of this country on the pro- 

 nunciation and use of words. In these 

 books he answers many vexed questions re- 

 garding our treacherous language, " The 

 Orthoepist," of course, treats especially of 

 pronunciation and is alphabetically ar- 

 ranged, with brief notes on disputed points. 

 " The Verbalist " deals with derivations and 

 synonyms, is also alphabetical and is co- 

 pious, but clear. Nothing could be more 

 easy of consultation than these books are, 

 and they are of hourly use in my office. 



They are published by D. Appleton & Co., 

 New York. Price, $1.50 each. 



SHOOTING QUAIL IN CLOSE SEASON. 



The notice of the Marion Gun Club has been called to 

 the fact that several so-called rabbit hunters are shooting 

 quail in violation of law. At a recent meeting of the club 

 the following communication was drafted and sent to this 

 paper: _ 



You are authonzed to say that a reward of $10 will fce 

 paid for evidence sufficient to convict some of the rabbit 

 hunters who are killing quails, in open defiance of the law. 

 It is not the farmers or the farmers' sons that are doing this 

 illegal shooting, but a gang that goes from town with 

 hounds and bull dogs, shooting at everything in sight, re- 

 gardless of all laws and the farmers' rights as well. Quail 

 can't be legally killed or hunted before Nov. 10, and the 

 fellows who have been disregarding this law had better 

 look out. Some of them are known and others are being 

 "shadowed," and there is going to be a " hot time in the 

 old town " when the grand jury meets. A word to the wise 

 ought to be sufficient. Marion Gun Club. 



Marion, Ind., Chronicle. 



This notice has a good, business ring to it. 

 If all local gun clubs would act as promptly 

 and as energetically as this one has, the re- 

 sult would be the saving of thousands of 

 game birds and animals within a year. 



Why do not all such energetic sportsmen 

 join the L. A. S. and thus extend its useful- 

 ness? If the Marion Gun Club had with it 

 the Indiana State Division of the L. A. S., 

 and the entire national organization, it 

 would create a great deal more alarm among 

 game law breakers, than it can single 

 handed. 



