NEW JiOoKS 



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the same principle as the carver. It is invalu- 

 able to all people who go into the woods and 

 especially so to the student of forestry and 

 botany. Get a catalogue from the Marble 

 Safety Axe Company, Gladstone, Mich. 



Pointers to practical bait casters are con- 

 tained in the new booklet of Jas. Heddon & 

 Son, Dowagiac, Mich. Among other things, 

 this booklet explains the advantage of artificial 

 bait, provided you have the right kind of 

 artificial bait and not a piece of painted wood 

 with a fish hook attached. Many fishermen 

 believe that in order to get the best results they 

 should carry an assortment of bait and many 

 have expressed the opinion that all they need 

 is a good assortment of Dowagiac bait. The 

 new booklet mentioned above shows the various 

 Dowagiac minnows in their natural colors. It 

 will be sent free by addressing Jas. Heddon & 

 Son, Dowagiac, Mich. 



Of especial interest to readers of Recreation 

 is the Film Premo No. 3 camera, catalogued 

 this year by the Rochester Optical Company, 

 Rochester, N. Y. This compact and beautiful 

 model is ideal for those who seek recreation out 

 of doors, possessing those qualities of com- 

 pactness, ease of manipulation and absolute 

 trustworthiness so essential in the camera 

 which shall be a part of our vacation outfits. 

 This camera uses exclusively the Premo film 

 pack. The operation of the film pack is 

 simplicity personified. A door is opened, the 

 film pack placed inside, the door closed and 

 all is ready for exposures. And there is the 

 additional advantage of being enabled to 

 develop at any time one or more exposures 

 without waiting until the entire pack of twelve 

 is exposed. In purchasing one has the choice 

 of two excellent automatic shutters of different 

 style and two different lenses. This camera is 

 well worth investigation and we would advise 

 our readers to write the manufacturers for a 

 catalogue. 



Our proof-reader has been deeply absorbed 

 in the " Mystery of the Blue Goose," and the 

 Chinook words were running in his mind when 

 he corrected Mr. Beard's article on the squaw 

 hitch, in the May number; consequently he 

 made the definition of the aparejo and the 

 alforja and the pack saddle interminably mixed. 

 For the benefit of the tenderfeet, we will say 

 that the aparejo is a pad which is placed over 

 the blanket on the pack animal's back. The 

 alforjas are the raw-hide saddle bags which 

 are attached to the pack saddle and slung on 

 each side. 



NEW BOOKS 



There were some folks who knew Andy 

 Adams, the Cripple Creek, Colo., cowboy 

 author, who prophesied that his "Log of a Cow- 

 boy" would be his last and only book. But the 

 erstwhile cowpuncher, who has the distinction of 

 being the author of the best story of the life of 

 the old-time cowboys and cattlemen, has since 

 published three other books equally as good. 

 All four are " cowboy books," and so now Mr. 

 Adams stands forth as the apostle and historian 

 of the American cowboy. 



In "The Outlet," that interesting character 

 Tom Quirk, with whom we became so well ac- 

 quainted in Mr. Adams' first book, now in the 

 employ of Don Lovell, has charge of the 

 exciting drive from Texas to Fort Buford, on a 

 government beef contract. There is more action 

 and less minute description of detail, so that it 

 is even more entertaining than "The Log of a 

 Cowboy," while just as circumstantial and 

 veracious in its picture of the drive. Mr. 

 Adams's descriptions of the tricks of the trade, 

 the loyalty of man to man and the good fighting 

 qualities which are pitted against treachery and 

 sharp practices in this life on the plains are 

 worth reading. 



Great variety of incident and abundant action 

 mark the fourteen cowboy stories in "Cattle 

 Brands," and readers of the earlier books by 

 Mr. Adams will recognize in some of the 

 characters old friends of the camp-fire and 

 trail. These are tales of the happenings of the 

 cattle country in its least pastoral phases when 

 the men are not on the trail, — stories of the 

 desperado; of man to man difficulties; of queer 

 characters; of the cowboy in the field of politics; 

 the capture of outlaws by rangers; and the 

 ransom of rich rancheros who have been 

 kidnapped — subjects which no other writer is 

 better qualified to handle than this veteran of 

 the trail. Published by Houghton, Mifflin & 

 Co., Boston, Mass. 



For a sport at once manly and dangerous, 

 the taking of the big game fishes of the ocean 

 with rod and reel and with the spear takes rank 

 with jungle hunting for big game. And favored 

 with opportunities probably not duplicated by 

 any other angler, with the training of a scientist, 

 Charles Frederick Holder has been enabled to 

 relate in his "The Logof a Sea Angler" probably 

 more exciting adventures with big game fish 

 than can be found in the writings of any other 



