Kov. 12, 1885.] 



FOREST ANlD STREAM. 



A FAMILIAR TALK. 



With the approach of a rew^ year it is not necessary to ann on noe any change in our 

 manner of conducting this journal. Just what the Forest and Stream has been in 1885 w e 

 hope to make it in lfiS6. It will be run on the same old principles, tested by experience and 

 approved by prospei-ity. It will be jus!; as entertaining, just as instructive, just as frank and 

 outspoken, and just as helpful. 



We are sometimes asked to explain the reason at the Forest and Stream's constantly 

 widening influence and prosperity. Well, there is no 



Trade-Secret 



about it, and we do not mind telling you. It is this: We hare not expended oxn* energies in 

 preposterous spread-eagle proclamations of tremendous attractions in the dim and distant 

 future, but have pinned our faith to present performance, each week, and fifty-two weeks 

 in the year. Thisin the kind of jouinaHsm tihat is boiind to succeed. NothiDg very occult 

 about it, you see. 



Another element of strength is the jealousy with which we have maintained the inher- 

 ent dignity and entire respectability of the pastimes discussed in these pages, and the 

 extreme care we have taken to keep the tone of the columns such as renders the paper fit 

 for any man to receive into his family. We are assured by men, whose good opinion we 

 value, that they do not think it necessary to make 



A Weekly Scrutiny 



of the contents of the Forest and Stre^vm before venturing to lay it on the family table, 

 We determined, years ago, that a clean paper must win its way among sportsmen (not 

 "sporting men''). The fact that it has done so is now cited, not that we may boast of our 

 own prescience, but as a most gratifying evidence of the high standing of the field-sports to 

 which this journal is devoted. 



In otlier wor«ls, llie r4>a!!ion wliy tlie '* Forest and Stream" is liked 

 by sportsmen is tliat tlie "Forest and Stream'* i* tlie liind of paper 

 that sportsmen liice. 



This, as we have said before, is complimontary all around. A third element of the paper's 

 popvilarity is this: It has some hundreds of con-espondents and contributors, who write for 

 it because they have something to say. You have heard the story of the German professor 

 who was assigned to prepare a thesis on the elephant. Now, he had never seen an elephant, 

 so he evolved one out of his inner consciousness. Though we never read his essay, we have 

 iiot the slightest doubt it was a very dry one. But if the German professor had ever come 

 across 



A Real Live Elephant 



in an African jungle, he could have written a thesis on the beast that would have had some 

 animation in it. That is just the secret of the interest of the Forest and Stream's contribu- 

 tions. They come from men who have seen or done or heard something to write about. 

 Nothing di-y in their notes and sketches and letters. They put it on paper just as entertain- 

 ingly as they would talk when gathered in camp after the hunt, or sitting about the fire and 

 comparing notes of the day's shoot. These stories and sketches come to us from sportsmen 

 who represent every phase of hfe— all the professions and trades and occupations, from 

 which busy men now and then turn aside for a bit of fun by the stream or in the stubble. 



Of course the great bulk of matter appearing in this pajjer has related to the game and 

 fish of our own country, for that, after all, is what Forest and Stream readers are most 

 interested in. And what a variety there has been ! Squirrel shooting in the woods back of 

 the barn, antelope on the distant plains, quail in the wheat stubble, and "chickens" on the 

 praii-ie; rufl:ed grouse on the wing and "partridge" on a limb; elk on the "hogbacks," moose 

 in the timber, deer in the brush, caribou on the barrens and coon in the hollow. All sorts 

 of game by all sorts of methods, and in all sorts of places, and hy all sorts of people. 



Give Cuvier a Bone. 



and the great naturalist could construct from it (or he pretended he could) the whole of the 

 animal, living or fossil, to which it must have belonged. Give a man (say 500 years hence) 

 the file of the Forest and Stream for 1885, and he will not need to be a naturahst to recon- 

 struct from its pages the animals and birds and fishes of this country (and he'll find in it a 

 vast deal of curious and instructive information about the "true sportsman," too). 



So, you see, the Forest and Stream is a journal of recreation. We do not mean alone 

 tliat it treats of recreation, but in its columns is recreation. This is the practical nineteenth 

 century realization of the old story of 



The Magician's Carpet, 



on which one sat cro.ss-legged and wished himself in a lovely garden a thousand miles away. 

 With the Forest and Stream in hand you do not need to be a magician to transport yourself 

 in a second to the hemlock browse and the trout pools, the quail cover or the "chicken 

 grounds." Perhaps, after all, we should have named this first, when we began to tell you the 

 secret of Forest and Stream's success as a sportsman's paper. 



The weekly issues of the Forest and Stream form two volimaes each year of twenty- 

 six numbers, or 500 pages each, and the file constitutes a library of permanent worth. 

 Twenty-four volumes have already been published. We furnish handsome file binders 

 (pi-iee S1.50) which hold twenty-six numbers. 



Subscriptions may begin at any time. Per year, $4; $3 for six months. Remit by post- 

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Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 39 Park Row, N, Y. 



The Forest and Stream Publighlng Go. will send post paid anyibook 

 published on receipt ot publisher's price. 



Sports man's L ibrary. 



We vnll forwa/rd any of these Books by mail, pos'/paid, on receipt of price, 

 No books sent unless money accompanies the order. 



POSITIVELY NO BOOKS EXCHANGED. 



ANGL.ING. 



American Angler's Book, Norrls 



AnRJer's Note Book 



Angling. 



Angling Talks, Dawson 



Angling, a Book on, Francis 



ALngling Literature in England 



yiack Bass Fishing. HensnaU 



British Angling Flies 



Carp Culture, Peirce 



Domesticated Trout 



Fisb Hatching and Fish Catching 



Fish and Fishing, Manly 



Fishing, Bottom or Float , 



Fishing in American Waters, Scott, Ulns 



Fishing Tom-ist, HallocJc , . 



Fishing with the Fir, Orvis .'. 



FJy Plsliingin Maine LaRes 



Fly Rods and Fly Tackle, Wells 



Frank Forefster's Fish and Fisbing 



Frank Foi-ester's Fishing with Hook and Line 



F^'sshe and Fysshyne 



Fresh and Sah Water Aquarium 



Modern Practical Angler, Pennell 



Practical Trout Culture 



Practical Fisherman 



Prime's I Go a-Fisbing 



Rod and Line in Colorado Waters 



Bf^'entiflc Angler 



Superior Fiyfaing, or the Striped Bags,. Trout, 



etc ; 



Trollmg 



The Game Fish of the NortherD States and 



British Provmees 



Trout Culture, Slack 



Trout Fishing, Bapid Streams, Cutliffe 



Walton. Izaak. fac simile of first edition 



BIRBS. 



American Bird Fancier 



Baird's Birds of North America 



Bechstem's Chamber and Cage Birdg, 



Bird Notes 



Birds Nesting 



Birds of Eastern North America 



Birds ot Eastern Pennsylvania 



Birds ot tlie Northwest , 



Birds and Their Haunts 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 



Coues' Check List, paper 



Coues' Field Ornithology 



Coues' Key to North American Birds 



Game Water Bicds of the Atlantic Coast, 



Roosevelt 



Holden's Book of Birds, pa 



Minol;'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 England 



Shore Bhds 



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



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



hand colored edition, 2 vols., each. 



Wood's Natural History ot Birds 



BOATINO AJaV K^ACHTlNGs 



A Canoe Trip, or a Lark on the Water 30 



Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam 3 00 



Boat Racing, Brickwood S 50 



Boating Trips on New England Rivers 1 25 



Canoe and Boat Building for Amateurs, W. P. 



Stephens 1 50 



Canoe and Camp Cookery, by "Seneca" 1 00 



Canoe Handling, C. B. Vaux 1 00 



Canoeing m Kanuclna 1 25 



Canoe and Camera 150 



Canoe, Voyage of the Paper. Bishop's 1 50 



Cruises in Small Yachts 2 50 



Donaldson's Steam Machinery 1 50 



Four Months in a Sneakbox, Bishop.. , 1 50 



Frazar's Practical Boat Sailing 100 



Model Yachts and Boats. Grosvenor 2 00 



Paddle and Portage ... 1 50 



Practical Boat Sailing, Davies 2 00 



Practical Boat Building, Neison 1 00 



The America's Cup, paper, 50c.; cloth 1 00 



The Cano Aurora, by Dr. C. A. Neid6 1 00 



The Sailing Boat 50 



Vacation Cruising. Rothrick 1 50 



Yachts and Boat Sailing, Kemp 10 00 



Yacht Designing. Kemp ... - 25 00 



Yachts, SmaU, C. P. Kunhardt 7 00 



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CAOTPING AND TRAPPING. 



Adventures m the Wilderness 1 25 



Amateur Trapper— paper, 50c. ; hda 75 



Three in Norway, or Rifle, Rod and Gun in 



Norway. , 1 75 



Camps in the Rockies, Grohraan 1 75 



Camp Life in the Wilderness 30 



Camping and Cruising in Florida, Henshall. 1 50 



Canoe and Camp Cookery, by "Seneca" ...... 1 00 



Complete American Trapper, Gibson 1 00 



Hants on Camping 1 25 



How to Camp Out, Go'ild 75 



How to Hunt and Trap, Batty'a 1 50 



Hunter and Trapper, 'Thrasher 75 



Rustlings in the Rockies 1 00 



HORSJE. 



American Roadsters and Trotting Horses 5 00 



Boucher's Method of Horsemanship 1 00 



Bruoe'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, Dui-ant , 1 25 



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 8 00 



Mayhew's Horse Management 3 00 



McOlure's Stable Guide i 00 



Rarey's Horse Tamer 50 



Riding and Driving 20 



Riding RecoUections, Whyte Melvills's 3 00 



Stable Management, Meyrick 100 



Stonehenge, Horse Owner's Cyclopedia 3 75 



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

 Stonehenge on the Horse, American edition, 



lamo 2 00 



The Book of the Horse., 8 00 



The Saddle Horse 1 00 



Veterinary Dictionary. Going 2 00 



WaUace's American Stud Book 10 00 



Wallace's American Trotting Register, 3 vols. 20 00 



Woodruff's Trotting Horses of America. ..... S SO 



TooAtt and on the Horse a QO 



HUNTING— SHOOTI N«. 



Across Country Wanderer 5 OC 



American Sportsman, The, Lewis 2 50 



Breech Loader. Mortem. Gloan, illustrated... 1 26 



Crack r^hot (The Rifle), "Barber," illustrated. 1 25 



Dead Shot (The Gun), illustrated 1 25 



Field. Cover and Trap Stiooting 2 00 



Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Charac- 

 ters, 2 vol. , cloth 4 00 



Frank Forester's Manual for Yoimg Sportsmen 2 00 



Frank Forester's Fugitive S. Sketches, paper 75 



How I Became a Cracii: Shot, Farrow 1 00 



How I Became a Sportsman 2 40 



Hunting, Shooting and Fishing 2 50 



Hunting and Hunters of ah NationSj B^ost. . . 1 50 



Hurlingham Gun Club Rules 35 



Instructions in Rifle Firing 3 00 



Nimrod in the North, Schwatka 2 60 



Rlhe Practice, Wiugate 1 50 



Rod and Gun in California. 1 50 



Shooting ,50 



Shooting, DougaU 3 00 



Shooting on the Wing 75 



Sport. Fox Hunting, Salmon Pishing, etc., W. 



B. Davenport, illustrated 7 50 



Sport With Gun and Rod, cloth. . : 10 00 



Sport with Gun and Rod, new, plain edition.. 5 00 



Embossed leather 15 OC 



Sporting Adventures in the Far West. ........ 1 50 



RtCl Hunter, Van Dyke 2 00 



Stephens' Lynx Huiitmg i 25 



Stephens' Fox Hunting 1 



Stephens' Yoimg Moose Hunters 1 



The Gun and Its Beyelopment, Greener 2 



G17IBJE: BOOK§ AND MAPS. 



Adlrondacks. Map of, Stoddard Si 00 



Farrar's Guide to Moosehead Lafe8,TO. 50: clo. 1 OO 

 Farrar's Guide to Richardson andEangeley 



Lake, paper, 50 ; cloth >.,.... 1 00 



Farrar's Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake . 30 

 Farrar's Pocket Map of Rangeley Lake Region^. 50 



Guide Book and Map of the Dead River Region ^-IjO 



Guide to Adirondack Region, Stoddard 



Map of Androscoggin Reg'ion 50 



Map of Northern Maine, Steele. 1 00 



Map of the Thousand Islands 50 



Map of the Yellowstone Park 2 5u 



SPORTS AND GAUIES. 



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 and Principles of Whist, Cavendish 2 00 



Quoits and Bowls 



Skating. as 



Stonehenge, Encyclopedia of Rural Sports. . . 7 .50 



Whist for Beginners 50 



KENNEIi. 



American Kennel, Surges 



Dog, Diseases of, Dalziel 



Dog, Diseases of, HUl 



Dog Breaking, Floyd 



Dog Breaking, by Holabird 



Dog Breaking, Hutchinson 



Dog, the Dinks, May hew and Hutchinson 



Dog Training vs. Breaki«*g. Hammond 



Dogs of Great Britain, America and other 

 Countries. 



Dogs, Management of, Mayhew, 16mo 



Dogs, Points for Judging 



Dogs, Richardson, pa. 30. .• iloth 



Dogs and Their Ways, Williams 



Dogs and the Public 



Dogs, Then Management and Treatment in 



Disease, byAshmont 



EngUsh Kennel 0. S. Book, Vol. I 



Enghsh K. C. S. Book, Vols. III. to X., each.. 



Our Friend the Dog 



Practical Kennel Guide, Stabl<*» 



Setter Dog, the, Laverack. 



Stonehenge, Dog of British Islands 



The Dog, by Idstone , 



Vero Shaw's Book on the Dog, ciixh, $8.00; 



morocco 



Youatton the Dog 



MlSC£:r,LANE:017lS; 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. 



Adventures of a Young Nattiralist 



Amateur Photographer 



Animal Plagues, Fleming , 



Antelope and Deer of Araerica 



Archer, Modem 



Archery, Witchery of, Maurice Thompson. . . . 



Atlas of Jersey Coast 



Black Hills of Dakota, Ludlow, quarto, cloth, 

 Government Report 



Common Objects of the Seashore 



Eastward Ho I 



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, 3 vols., 

 per vol 



Mammals of New Yor' iper, $4; cloth 



May nard's Manual of Taxidermy 



Manton's Taxidermy Without a Teacher 



Natural History Quadruped 



North American Insects 



Old St. Augustine, Fla„ illustrated 



Packard's Half -Hours With Insects 



Pistol, The 



Photography for imatpurs 



Practical Forestry, by Fuller 



Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration, 

 Batty 



Practical Orange Culture 



Practical Poultry Keeping 



BandaU's Practical Shepherd 



Sportsman's Gaaetter, HaUocb 



Sportsman's Hand Book, Col. Horace Park. . , 



Studies In Animal Life, Lewis 



The Cream of Leicestershh-e 



The Forester, by Brown 



The Northwest Coast of America. 



The Heart of Europe 



The Botanical Atlas, 2 vols 



The Zoological Atlas, 2 vols . 



The Taxidermists' Manual, Brown, 



Wild Flowers of Switzerland 



Wild Woods Life, Farrar 



Woodcraft, "Nessmuk" 



Woods and Lakes of Matoe. 



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