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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Explanatory and Suggestive. 
FOR THE CASUAL READER. 
Arma virumgue cano—Arms and the man I sing.” And, indeed, it would take the genius 
of a Virgil and the roll of Latin hexameters fitly to tell the deeds of this man, whose arms are 
shotgun and fishing rod, Go where you will, he is there. You rin into him on the crowded city 
street, encounter him on cars and steamboats; he perches atop the country stage, bestrides the 
burro, and doubles up like a jacknife in the kanim. Seek out the most distant, most tortuous 
streams, his liue has been wet in their waters; penetrate into the wilderness, the tin can of the 
sportsman’s camp is yet further on. He goes for game—if the fates shall send anything within 
reach of his ammunition; for fish—if by good fortune a trout shall rise to his fly or descend to 
his worm. But, good luck or bad luck, game or no game, fish or no fish—fun always, fresh air, 
ozone, quicker pulse beat, brighter eye, more elastic step, all the multitudinous rewards, which, 
after all, outweigh the biggest “bags,” and tip up the longest ‘‘strings.”’ Is it not true that only 
a poet could tell his deeds as they ought to be told? Perhaps so. Perhapsnot. He can usually 
tell them himself. And he does, with a thousand different pens, in a thousand different ways. 
You may read it in the FoREST AND STREAM, 
And that is better than if it were put into verse between book covers. 
One who dees not understand these things might imagine that after being told so often, this 
story of the man—him with the rod and gun—might in the end became hackneyed. But it 
isnotso. Why? Well for pretty much the same reason, we venture to say, that the fields them- 
selves and the woods and the lakes and the streams never become hackneyed. However that 
may be, one thing is certain, Our columns every week, and month after month, give ampie 
proof that there is still an abundance to tell of what is seen and what is done afield and on 
angling waters; and that hosts of people still delight to read the telling, our subscription books 
show with ever increasing emphasis. The FOREST AND STREAM is in the best sense 
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FoREST AND STREAM is different from the diversion afforded by other papers. Why? Because 
(it may be answered again) the recreations of field and stream are always ten times more potent 
for good than are those found in almost any other way. 
Look through the pages and you will see that the departments include a pretty large field, 
It is a wide scope of subjects, But if you look carefully you will see that the paper, from front 
cover to back cover is homogeneous, What is in it belongs init. There is not the mistake of 
trying to foist upon the reader, who is interested in angling and shooting, a lot of stuff about 
horse racing er base ball or prize fights. There is no sawdust-ring odor. Everything is redolent 
of the woods. There are plenty of other papers devoted to the other subjects. If you are 
interested in them, you need hardly spend time to read the rest of this explanatory advertisement. 
The FormsT AND STREAM’S field is broad, but it is not broad enough to take in all creation. 
The editors are perfectly contented with the scope of the paper as it is at present. And now 
A Word About 1885. 
For fifty-two weeks of the year 1885 we propose to publish the ForEST AND STREAM, and 
‘to fill each number with the same rich abundance and yariety of reading that may be found in 
this present number or in any one of the five hundred numbers that have gone before it. 
There wili be the same delightful accounts of the adventures and misadyentures of the 
Sportsman Tourist, and whether the ‘‘tour” be across a continent or only across the pasture lot 
into the woods beyond, the story in either case will be well worth the time it takes to read it. 
We shall have, now and then, a description ef such excursions in foreign Jands, but for the 
most part these columns will deal with what is seen and done in our own country, for that, after 
all, is what the readers of FOREST AND STREAM are rightly presumed to be most interested in. 
The Watural Aistory columns will give attention to varied forms of animal life, more parti- 
culatly such as may come under the observation of sportsmen in their rambles. This department 
of the ForREST AND STREAM we believe to hold a place altogether unique. It is neither the 
dime-museum sort of un-natural history affected by the newspapers, nor the abstruse, fine-spun 
and terribly dry lucubrations of the scientific associations. It is intelligent talk about animal 
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In the Skeotixg and Angling columns(we need hardly say it) will be accounts of hunting 
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The Aenae/l will give in 1885 (as it has given in 1884) the earliest, most accurate and the 
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American Angler’s Book, Norris..........,.-+- 5 50 | Across Country Wanderer..............0+0+--- 5 00 
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Black Bass Fishing, Henshall.............-...- 3 00 | Frank forester’s Manual for Young Sportsmen 2 00 
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Fishing with the Fly, Orvis ..............-.++. 2 50 | Rifle Practice, Wingate..............sscsssses 1 50 
Fly Fishing in Maine Lakes..........-......... 125 | Rod and Gun in California.............,...06.- 150 
Fly and Worm Fishing,......... EpereslaloPlaieierats eet 0s Shooting: Wes eyes sate Wl oe 50 
Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing........... 2 50 Shodtine Dougall ah.) Lime ow) meee ens 3 00 
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Modern Practical angler, Pennell............. 2 00 | Still Hunter, Van Dykens attra 2 00 
Practical Trout Culture.......-..4..5. ssceees 1 00 Stephens’ Lynx Fontaine Mosc ee Ray 
Practical Fishermamn,............-+-+s-++++++ . 420) Stephens’ Fox Hunting........... i paw e Ob 
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RIRDS Farrar’s Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake..... 50 
; . Farrar’s Pocket Map of Rangeley Lake Region 50 
American Bird Fancier.,............- sseeeeeee 50 | Guide Book and Map of the Dead River Region 50 
Baird’s Birds of North America...........-...- 30 00 | Guide to Adirondack Region, Stoddard 25 
Bechstein’s Chamber and Cage Birds.......... 1 50 | Map of Androscoggin Reg‘on........ 50 
BirdtNotesc ceo t ta tiadie scans denice) secpuieelaie 75 | Map of Northern Maine, Steele, 1 00 
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Coues’ Field Ornithology......-..........-:.-. 2 50 2 00 
Coues’ Key to North American Birds...... ... 15 00 8 00 
Game Water Birds of the Atlantic Coast, 20 
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Minot’s Land and Game Birds 3 00 |, W. 50 
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Samuei’s Birds of New Hngiand.......... .... 4 00 7 50 
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The Adirondacks, Headley..................0. 2 00 ae eg: Biographical Atlas of New Jer- an 
HORSE. How to Make Photographs ........... F 1 00 
Humorous Sketches, Seymour,................ 6 00 
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The faddis Hones, sce seea oo nonk Geen. we 1 00 | The Taxidermists’ Manual, Brown....,....... 1 00 
The Horse Owner's Safeguard. .............. .. 200] Wild Flowers of Switzerland..... . .......... 16 60 
Veterinary Dictionary. Going ....,...... phen 2 00 | Woodcraft, ‘‘Nessmuk”™................-0000 ce 1 00 
Wallace’s AmericanStud Book..... .. ...... 10 00 | Woods end Lakes of Maine............0....... 3 60 
Wallace’s American Trotting Register, 2 vols, 20 00 | Yellowstone Park, Ludlow. quarto, clot 4, Goy- 
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