March 12, 1885] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



139 



Explanatory and Suggestive, 



FOB THE CASUAL READER. 



Anna virumque 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 kanim. 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 aga^n) the recreations of field and stream are always ten times more potent 

 for ^ood 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, 

 rt is a wide scope of subjects. But if you look carefully you will see that the paj>er, 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-rin^ 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 1885 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 Poorest 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 

 lite, 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 wiih 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 tiy to get along without a paddle as without the paper 

 in his mail every week. 



In a word — this is what we started oa' to say — in 1885 the Forest and Stream will be 

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



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Sportsman's Library. 



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ANGLING. 



American Angler's Book, Norris 5 50 



Angler's Note Book 2 40 



Angling 50 



Angling Talks, Dawson 50 



Angling, a Book on, Francis 7 50 



Angling Literature in England 1 25 



Black Bass Fishing. Henshall 3 00 



British Angling Flies 2 00 



Fish Hatching and Fish Catching 1 50 



Fish and Fishing, Manly 5 25 



Fishing, Bottom or Float 50 



Fishing in American Waters, Scott 3 50 



Fishing Tourist, Hallock 2 00 



Fishing with the Fly, Orvis 2 50 



Fly Fishing in Maine Lakes 1 25 



Fly and Worm Fishing 50 



Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing 2 50 



Frank Forester's Fishing with Hook and Line 25 



Fysshe and Fysshyne 1 00 



Fresh and Salt Water Aquarium 50 



Goldfish and its Culture, Mulertt 1 00 



Modern Practical Angler, Pennell 2 00 



Practical Trout Culture 1 00 



Practical Fisherman 4 20 



Prime's I Go a-Fisbing 2 50 



Scientific Angler 1 50 



Superior Fishing, or the Striped Bass, Trout, 



etc 2 00 



Trolling 50 



The Game Fish of the Northern States and 



British Provinces 2 00 



Trout Fishing, Rapid Streams, Cutliffe 1 50 



Walton, Izaak, f ac simile of first edition 3 75 



BIRDS. 



American Bird Fancier 50 



Batrd's Birds of North America 30 00 



Bechstein's Chamber and Cage Birds 1 50 



Bird Notes 75 



Birds Nesting 1 25 



Birds of Eastern North America 18 00 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 



Birds of the Northwest 4 50 



Birds and Their Haunts 3 00 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 50 



Coues' Check List 3 00 



Coues' Field Ornithology 2 50 



Coues' Key to North American Birds 15 00 



Game Water Birds of the Atlantic Coast, 



Roosevelt 2 00 



Holden's Book of Birds, pa 25 



Minot's Land and Game Birds 3 00 



Native Song Birds 75 



Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Natural History of Birds 3 00 



Notes on Cage Birds, Green 1 80 



Samuel's Birds of New Engiand 4 00 



Shore Birds 15 



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



Ridgway, plain edition, 2 vols., $12 each; 



hand colored edition, 2 vols., each 30 00 



Wood's Natural History of Birds 6 00 



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 1 25 



Canoe and Camera 1 50 



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, Gros venor 2 00 



Paddle and Portage .. 150 



Practical Boat Sailing, Davies 2 00 



Practical Boat Building, Kemp 1 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 1 25 



Amateur Trapper— paper , 50c. : bds 75 



Three in Norway, or Rifle, Rod and Gun in 



Norway 175 



Camps in the Rockies, Grohman 1 75 



Camp Life in the Wilderness 30 



Camping and Cruising in Florida, HenshaU.. 1 50 



Camping Out 75 



Complete American Trapper, Gibson 1 00 



Hints on Camping 1 25 



How to Camp Out, Gould 1 00 



How to Hunt and Trap, Batty'a 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 



Mayhe w's Horse Management 3 00 



McClure's Stable Guide l 00 



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 

 Stonehenge on the Horse, American edition, 



12mo 200 



The Book of th& 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 vola. 20 00 



Woodruff's Trotting Horses of America , 2 50 



Youatt and Spooner on the Horse 1 50 



HUNTING-SHOOTING. 



Across Country Wanderer. 5 00 



American Sportsman, The, Lewis 2 50 



Breech Loader, Modern, Gloan 1 00 



CrackShot 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 Crack 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 60 



The Gun and Its Development, Greener 2 50 



GUIDE BOOKS AND MAPS. 



Adirondacks, Map of, Stoddard $1 00 



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

 Farrar's Guide to Richardson and Range] ey 



Lake, paper, 50 ; cloth 1 00 



Farrar's Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake 50 



Farrar's Pocket Map of Rangeley Lake Region 50 



Guide Book and Map of the Dead River Region 50 



Guide to Adirondack Region, Stoddard 25 



Map of Androscoggin Reg-ion 50 



Mapof 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, so 



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 25 



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. Break»*g, Hammond 



Dogs. . 



3 00 

 80 



2 00 

 25 



3 75. 



3 00 

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200 

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1 25 

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5 00 



4 50 

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 750 



1 25 



22 50 



2 50 



Dogs of Great Britain, America and oilier 

 Countries 



Dogs, Management of, Mayhew, 16mo 



Dogs, Points for Judging 



Dogs, Richardson, pa. 30. ; > 4oth 



Dogs and Their Ways, Williams 



Dogs and the Public 



English Kennel C. S. Book, Vol. I 



English K. C. S. Book, Vols. HI. to X., each.. 



Our Friend the Dog 



Practical Kennel Guide, Stables 



Setter Dog, the, Laverack 



Stonehenge, Dog of British Islands . . : 



The Dog, by Idstone 



Vero Shaw's Book on the Dog, clodi, $12.50; 

 morocco 



Vouatt on the Dog 



MISCELLANEOUS; 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott, 1 5C 



Adventures of a Young Naturalist 1 75 



Amateur Photographer 1 00 



Animal Plagues, Fleming 4 8B. 



Antelope and Deer of America 2 50 



Archer, Modern 2E 



Archery, Witchery of, Maurice Thompson 1 5C 



Black Hills of Dakota, Ludlow, quarto, cloth, 



Government Report 2 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore 50 



Eastward Ho ! 1 25 



Historical and Biographical Atlas of New Jer- 

 sey Coast 5 0C 



How to Make Photographs 100 



Humorous Sketches, Seymour 6 00 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation 6 50 



Keeping One Cow 1 00 



Life and Writings of Frank Forrester, 2 vols., 



per vol 1 5C 



Maynard's Manual of Taxidermy 1 25 



Manton's Taxidermy Without a Teacher 50 



Natural History Quadruped 7£ 



North American Insects 1 50 



Old St. Augustine 1 50 



Packard's Half-Hours With Bisects 1 50 



Pistol, The 50 



Photography for Amateurs 60 



Practical Forestry, by Fuller 1 50 



Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration, 



Batty 1 50 



Practical Orange Culture 100 



Practical Poultry Keeping 2 00 



Randall's Practical Shepherd 2 00 



Sportsman's Gazetter, Hallock 3 00 



Studies in Animal Life, Lewis 1 00 



The Cream of Leicestershire 3 50 



The Forester, by Brown 10 00 



The Northwest Coast of America 20 00 



The Heart of Europe 3 75 



The Botanical Atlas, 2 vols 12 00 



The Zoological Atlas, 2 vols 10 00 



The Book of the Rabbit 5 00 



The Taxidermists' Manual, Brown 1 00 



Wild Flowers of Switzerland 15 00 



Wild Woods Life, Farrar , 1 25 



Woodcraft, "Nessmuk" 1 00 



Woods and Lakes of Maine 3 60 



Yellowstone Park, Ludlow, quarto, clot\ Gov- 

 ernment Report ..,, 2 50 



Youatt on Sheep M ,,,.■-. , ltl , >.... 1Q9 



