March 5, 1885.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



119 



Explanatory and Suggestive. 



FOR TEE CASUAL READER. 



Arma virumquc 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 run 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 kaniui. Seek out the most distant, most tortuous 

 streams, his line 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. Perhaps not. 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 does 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 become hackneyed. But it 

 is not so. 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 ample 

 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 



A Journal of Recreation. 



It tells of the recreation found by busy men, in out-door, open-air life. It is recreation to 

 these same men and to others. Explain it how you will, this recreation found in the pages of the 

 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 in it. 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 or 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 Forest 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 1S85 we propose to publish the Forest and Stream, and 

 to fill each number with the same rich abundance and variety 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 will be the same delightful accounts of the adventures and misadventures 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 of such excursions in foreign lands, 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 Natural History columns will give attention to varied forms of animal life, more parti- 

 cularly such as may come under the observation of sportsmen in their rambles. This department 

 of the Forest 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 

 life, intended for intelligent readers. 



In the Shooting and Angling columns (we need hardly say it) will be accounts of hunting 

 excursions and fishing trips — with luck, good, bad and indifferent; discussions about matters 

 mechanical, ethical, sentimental, fanciful and practical; some, after much debating, will be 

 settled; others will be left (and the reader with them) at the end just where they were at the 

 beginning. 



The Kennel will give in 1885 (as it has given in 1884) the earliest, most accurate and the 

 only unbiased reports of shows and trials, and it will be the endeavor of the editors to maintain 

 for the Forest and Stream in this special branch the position it now holds away in advance 

 of anything else published in this country. 



The Yachting columns are in charge of an expert, whose highest ambition will be to keep 

 these departments in the place already won for them in the recognized lead of journalism. 

 Though the Canoeing interest of the country is of comparatively recent growth, the Forest 

 And Stream fully appreciating its importance, has provided for those who sail or paddle a (pretty 

 generous) corner, which is so full of practical suggestions and recountings of cruising experi- 

 ences, that a canoeist might almost as well try to get along without a paddle as without the paper 

 in his mail every week. 



In a word — this is what we started oar to say— in x385 the Forest And Stream will be 

 newsy, bright, wholesome— a journal of out- door recreation. 



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ANGLING. 



American Angler's Book, Norris 



Angler's Note" Book 



Angling 



Angling Talks, Dawson 



Angling, a Book on, Francis 



Angling Literature in England 



Black Bass Fishing. Hensnall 



British Angling Flies 



Fish Hatching and Fish Catching 



Fish and Fishing, Manly 



Fishing, Bottom or Float 



Fishing in American Waters, Scott 



Fishing Tourist, Hallock 



Fishing with the Fly, Orvis 



FJy Fishing in Maine Lakes 



Fly and Worm Fishing 



Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing 



Frank Forester's Fishing with Hook and Line 



Fysshe and Fysshyne 



Fresh and Salt Water Aquarium 



Goldfish and its Culture, Mulertt 



Modern Practical Angler, Pennell 



Practical Trout Culture 



Practical Fisherman 



Prime's I Go a-Fishing 



Scientific Angler 



Superior Fishing, or the Striped Bass, Trout, 



etc 



Trolling 



The Game Fish of the Northern States and 



British Provinces 



Trout Fishing, Bapid Streams, Cutliffe 



Walton, Izaak, fac simile of first edition 



BIRDS. 



American Bird Fancier 



Baird's Birds of North America 



Bechstein's Chamber and Cage Birds 



Bird Notes 



Birds Nesting 



Birds of Eastern North America 



Birds of Eastern Pennsyl vania 



Birds of the Northwest 



Birds and Their Haunts 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 



Coues' Cheek List 



Coues' Field Ornithology 



Coues' Key to North American Birds 



Game Water Birds of the Atlantic Coast, 



Roosevelt 



Holden's Book of Birds, pa 



Minot's Land and Game Birds 



Native Song Birds. , 



Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 



Natural History of Birds 



Notes on Cage Birds, Green 



Samuel s Birds of New Engiand 



Shore Birds 



Water Birds of N. A., by Baird, Brewer and 



Ridgway, plain edition, 2 vols., $13 each; 



hand colored edition, 3 vols., each 



Wood's Natural History of Birds 



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BOATING AND YACHTING; 



Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam 3 00 



Boat Racing, Brickwood 2 50 



Boating Trips on New England Rivers 1 25 



Canoe and Boat Building for Amateurs, W. P. 



Stephens 1 50 



Canoeing in Kanuckia 125 



Canoe and Camera 150 



Canoe, Voyage of the Paper. Bishop's 2 50 



Cruises in Small Yachts 2 50 



Frazar 's Practical Boat Sailing 1 00 



Model Yachts and Boats, Grosvenor 2 00 



Paddle and Portage... .. 150 



Practical Boat Sailing, Davies 2 00 



Practical Boat Building, Kemp l 00 



The Sailing Boat 50 



Vacation Cruising. Rothrick 1 50 



Yachts and Boat Sailing, Kemp 10 00 



Yacht Designing, Kemp 25 00 



CAMPING AND TRAPPING. 



Adventures in the Wilderness l 25 



Amateur Trapper— paper, 50c. : bds 75 



Three in Norway, or Rifle, Rod and Gun in 



Norway 1 75 



Camps in the Rockies, Grohman 1 75 



Camp Life in the Wilderness 30 



Camping and Cruising in Florida, Hensnall. . 1 50 



Camping Out 75 



Complete American Trapper, Gibson l 00 



Hints on Camping 1 25 



How to Camp Out, Gould M \ 00 



How to Hunt and Trap, Batty's 1 50 



Hunter and Trapper, Thrasher 75 



Rustlings in the Rockies 1 00 



HORSE. 



American Roadsters and Trotting Horses 5 00 



Bits and Bearing Reins 50 



Boucher's Method of Horsemanship 1 00 



Bruce's Stud Book, 3 vols . 30 00 



Dadd's American Reformed Horse Book, 8vo. 2 50 



Dadd's Modern Horse Doctor. 12mo 1 50 



Dwyer's Horse Book '. 1 25 



Horseback Riding, Durant 1 25 



How to Ride and School a Horse 1 00 



Horses and Hounds 80 



Horses, Famous American Race 75 



Horses, Famous American Trotting 75 



Horses, Famous, of America 1 50 



Jenning's Horse Training 1 25 



Manual of the Horse 25 



Mayhew's Horse Doctor 3 00 



Mayhew's Horse Management 3 00 



McClure's Stable Guide 100 



Rarey's Horse Tamer 50 



Riding and Driving 20 



Riding Recollections, Whyte Melville's 3 00 



Stable Management, Meyrick 1 00 



Stonehenge, Horse Owner's Cyclopedia .". 3 75 



Stonehenge on the Horse, English edition, 8vo 3 50 

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l2mo 2 00 



The Book of the Horse .' 12 50 



The Saddle Horse 1 00 



The Horse Owner's Safeguard 2 00 



Veterinary Dictionary , Going 2 00 



Wallace's American Stud Book..., 10 00 



Wallace's American Trotting Register, 2 vols. 20 00 



W oodruff 's Trotting Horses of America 2 50 



Youatt and Spooner on the Horss. . , 1 SQ 



HUNTING— SHOOTING. 



Across Country Wanderer. 5 00 



American Sportsman, The, Lewis 2 50 



Breech Loader, Modern, Gloan 1 00 



Crack Shot 1 25 



Field, Cover and Trap Shooting 2 00 



Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Charac- 

 ters, 2 vol., cloth 4 00 



Frank Forester's Manual for Young Sportsmen 2 00 



Frank Forester's Fugitive S. Sketches, paper 75 



How I Became a Cracli Shot, Farrow 1 00 



How I Became a Sportsman 2 40 



Hunting, Shooting and Fishing 2 50 



Hunting and Hunters of all Nations, Frost. . . 1 50 



Hurlingham Gun Club Rules 25 



Rifle Practice, Wingate 1 50 



Rod and Gun in California 1 50 



Shooting 50 



Shooting, Dougall 3 00 



Shooting on the Wing 75 



Sport With Gun and Rod, cloth 10 00 



Embossed leather 15 00 



Sporting Adventures in the Far West 1 50 



Still Hunter, Van Dyke 2 00 



Stephens' Lynx Hunting 1 25 



Stephens' Fox Hunting 125 



Stephens' Young Moose Hunters 1 50 



The Gun and Its Development, Greener 2 50 



GUIDE BOOKS AND MAPS. 



Adirondaeks, Map of, Stoddard $1 00 



Farrar's Guide to Moosehead Lake, pa. 50; clo. 1 00 

 Farrar's Guide to Richardson and Rangeley 



Lake, paper, 50 ; cloth 1 00 



Farrar's Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake 50 



Farrar's Pocket Map of Rangeley Lake Region 60 



Guide Book and Map of the Dead River Region 50 



Guide to Adirondack Region, Stoddard 25 



Map of Androscoggin Region 50 



Map of Northern Maine, Steele. 1 00 



Map of the Thousand Islands 50 



Tourists' Map of Maine 100 



SPORTS AND GAMES. 



American Boy's Own Book, Sports and Games 2 00 



Athletic Sports for Boys, bds. 75c. ; cloth 1 00 



Boy's Treasury of Sports and Pastimes, etc. . 2 00 



Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes 3 00 



Croquet 20 



Easy Whist 50 



Every Boy's Book of Sports and Amusements 3 50 



Hands at Whist , 50 



Instruction in the Indian Club Exercise. ." ..." .' 25 



Laws andPrinciples of Whist, Cavendish 2 00 



Quoits and Bowls 25 



Skating 2 5 



Stonehenge, Encyclopedia of Rural Sports. . . 7 50 



Whist for Beginners 50 



KENNEL. 



American Kennel, Burges 



Dog, Diseases of, Dalziel \ 



Dog, Diseases of, Hill '.'.'..'. 



Dog Breaking, by Holabird . . .. . 



Dog Breaking, Hutchinson 



Dog, the Dinks, Mayhew and Hutchinson . 



Dog Training vs. Breaking, Hammond 



Dogs. . 



Dogs of Great Britain, America and" other 

 Countries 



Dogs, Management of, Mayhew, 16mo"!! " 



Dogs, Points for Judging 



Dogs, Richardson, pa. 30. ; • -doth 



Dogs and Their Ways, Williams \ " 



Dogs and the Public 



English Kennel C. S. Book, Vol. I. . . 



English K. C. S. Book, Vols. III. to X.,' each" 



Our Friend the Dog 



Practical Kennel Q uide, Stabfew .......'. 



Setter Dog, the, Laverack \ "* 



Stonehenge, Dog of British Islands' ."...". 



The Dog, by Idstone 



Vero Shaw's Book on the Dog, cloth $1*2.66'; 

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Youatt on the Dog 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. 



Adventures of a Young Naturalist , 



Amateur Photographer , 



Animal Plagues, Fleming !!!!!"!! 



Antelope and Deer of America ; 



Archer, Modern ,* 



Archery, Witchery of, Maurice Thompson. ... 



Black Hills of Dakota, Ludlow, quarto, cloth 

 Government Report ' 



Common Objects of the Seashore .." 



Eastward Ho ! ._" " 



Historical and Biographical Atlas of New Jer- 

 sey Coast 



How to Make Photographs ".'.'.[ 



Humorous Sketches. Seymour .,.. 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation ...... 



Keeping One Cow ' 



Life and Writings of Frank Forrester, 2 vols., 

 per vol 



Maynard's Manual of Taxidermy 



Manton's Taxidermy Without a Teacher " , 



Natural History Quadruped ,* * 



North American Insects 



Old St. Augustine ' 



Packard's Half -Hours With Insects 



Pistol, The 



Photography for Arnatenrs . 



Practical Forestry, by Fuller 



Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration, 

 Batty 



Practical Orange Culture 



Practical Poultry Keeping 



Randall's Practical Shepherd 



Sportsman's Gazetter, Hallock .' 



Studies in Animal Life, Lewis 



The Cream of Leicestershire 



The Forester, by Brown \\\ 



The Northwest Coast of America. ........ 



The Heart of Europe ..!"!.. 



The Botanical Atlas, 2 vols '"'.". 



The Zoological Atlas, 2 vols ....... 



The Book of the Rabbit 



The Taxidermists' Manual, Brown. .....".' 



Wild Flowers of Switzerland .... 



Wild Woods Life, Farrar. 



Woodcraft, "Nessmuk' ' ' 



Woods and Lakes of Maine 



Yellowstone Park, Ludlow, quarto, clotS, Gov- 

 ernment Report . 



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