Kov. ly, 1885.] 



FOtlESt AND STREAM. 



3S9 



A FAMILIAR TALK. 



With the approacbi of a rew year it is not necessaiy to announce any change in our 

 manner of condnctiDg this .iournal. Just what the Forest and Stream has been in 1885 M e 

 hope to make it in 1886. It will be run on the same old principles, tested by expei'ieuce and 

 approved bj' prosperity. It will be just as entertaining, just as instructive, just as frank and 

 outspoken, and just as helpful. 



We are sometimes asked to explain the reason of the Forest and Stbbam'.s constantly 

 widening influence and prosperitj^. Well, there is no 



Trade-Secret 



about it, and we do not mind telling you. It is this: We have not expended our 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. This in the kind of joui nalism that is bound to succeed. Nothing 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 ai'e 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 Stream 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 other words, tUe reason why the **Forest and ^itream"* is liked 

 by sportsmen is tliat tlie "Forest and Stream" i^ the bind ot paper 

 that sportsmen like. 



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

 populaiity is this: It has some hundreds of correspondents 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 oonsciousness. Though we never read his essay, we have 

 not the slightest doubt it was a very dry one. But if the German professor had ever come 

 across 



A Real Live Elephant 



m 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 dry 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 bult of matter appearing in this paper has related to the game and 

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

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

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

 prairie; ruffed 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 hoUow". All sorts 

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



Give Cuvier a Bone. 



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

 •inimal, living or fossil, to which it must have belonged. Give a man (say oiX) years hence) 

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

 struct fi-om 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 

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

 century i-ealization of the old story of 



The 



[ician s 



Carpet, 



on which one sat cross-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 yon the 

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



The weekly issues of the Forest and Stream form two volumes 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 

 (price $1.50) which hold twenfcy-six numbers. 



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Sports man's L ibrary. 



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 No books sent unless money accompanies the order. 



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ANGIilNG. 



American Angler's Book, Norris. ■ 5 50 



Angler's Note Book 3 40 



Angling 50 



AiiRling Talks, Dawson 50 



Angling, a Book on, Francis 7 50 



Angling Literature in England 126 



Black Bass Fishing, Heushall 3 00 



British Angling Flies 3 00 



Carp Culture, Peirce 50 



Domesticated Trout 2 00 



Fiah Hatching and Fish Catching 1 50 



Fish and Fishing, Manly 5 25 



Fishmg, Bottom or Float 50 



Pishing in American Waters, Scott, illus 3 50 



Fishing Tourist, Hallock 2 00 



Fishing with the Fly, Orvis 3 50 



Fly Fishing in Maine Lakes 1 25 



Fly Hods and Fly Tackle, Wells 2 50 



Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing 3 50 



Frank Forester's Fishing with Hook and Ltoe 25 



Fysshe and Fysshyne 1 00 



Fresh and Salt Water Aquarium 50 



Modem Practical Angler, Pennell 2 00 



Practical Trout Culture 1 00 



Practical Fisherman 4 20 



Pnme's I Go a-Fishing 2 50 



Rod and liine in Colorado Waters.. . , 1 00 



Scientific Angler 1 50 



Superior Fishing, or the Striped Bass, Trout, 



etc T: . 3 00 



Trolhng. 50 



The Game Fish of the Northern States and 



British Provmces 2 00 



Trout Culture, Slack 1 00 



Trout Fishmg, Hapid Streams, Cutliffe 1 60 



Walton. Izaak. fac shnUe ot first edition 3 75 



BIRDS. 



American Bird Fancier 50 



Baird's Birds of North America 30 00 



Bechstein's Chamber and Cage Birds 2 00 



Bu-d Notes.... 75 



Bu-ds Nesting 1 25 



Birds of Eastern North America 18 00 



Birds ol Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 



Birds ot the Northwest 4 50 



Birds and Their Haunts 3 00 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 50 



Cones' Check List, paper 60 



Coues' Field Ornithology 2 50 



Coues' Key to North American Birds 15 00 



Game Water Bii^ds of the Atlantic Coast, 



Roosevelt 2 00 



Holden's Book of Birds, pa 35 



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 England 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 ot- Birds 6 00 



BOATINO AND FACHTINO; 



A Canoe Trip, or a Lark on the Water 30 



Around the World in the "Xacht Sunbeam 3 00 



Boat Racing, Brickwood 2 50 



Boating Trips on New England Rivers 1 26 



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 



Canoemg m Kanuckia 1 35 



Canoe and Camera 150 



Canoe, Voyage of the Paper. Bishop'a 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 Saihng 100 



Model Yachts and Boats, Qrosvenor 3 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 Oano Aurora, by Dr. C. A. Neidg 1 00 



The Sailing Boat 50 



Vacation Cruiging, Rothrick 150 



Yacht Architecture, Dixon Kemp 1(5 80 



Yachts and Boat Sailing, Kemp 10 00 



Yacht Designing, Kemp 25 00 



Yachts, SmaU, 0. P. Kunhardt. 7 00 



CAOTPING ANII> TRAPPIATG. 



Adventures in the Wilderness , 1 25 



Amateur Trapper— paper, SOc. ; bds 75 



Three In Norway, or Bille, Rod and Gun in 



Norway 1 75 



Camps in the Rockies, Grohman. 1 75 



Camp Life in the Wilderness 30 



Camping and Cruismg in Florida, Henshall. 1 50 



Canoe and Camp Cookery, by "Seneca" 1 00 



Complete American Trapper, Gibson 1 00 



Hints on Camping ; . . 1 25 



How to Camp Out, Gould 75 



How to Hunt and Trap, Batty's 1 50 



Hunter and Trapper, Thrasher 75 



KustUnga in the Rockies 1 00 



HORSE. 



American Roadsters and Trotting Horses . 5 00 



Boucher's Method of Horsemanship 1 00 



Brace's Stud Book, 3 vols 30 00 



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



Dadd's Modem Horse Doctor, 12mo l 50 



Dwyer's Horse Book 125 



Horseback RidlBg, Durant 1 25 



Horses and Hounds 80 



Horses, Famous American Race 75 



Horses, Famous American Trotting 75 



Horses, Famous, of America l 50 



Jennlng's Horse Training l 25 



Manual of the Horse 25 



Mayhew's Horse Doctor ,5 00 



Mayhew's Horse Management , 3 00 



McClure's Stable Guide i 00 



Barey's Horse Tamer 50 



Riding and Driving 20 



Rldmg Recollections, Whyte Melville's 8 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 8 00 



The Saddle Horse 1 00 



Veterinary Dicti(Miai7, Going 2 00 



Wallace's American Stud Book 10 Ofl 



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



Woodruff "8 Trotting Horses of Aiuerica 8 50 



Toaatt and od the Horse 9 OO 



HUNTING— SHOOTING, 



Across Country Wanderer 



American Sportsman, The, Lewis , 



Breech Loader, Modem. Gloan, illustrated... 

 Crack Shot (The Rifle), -'Barber," iUustrated. 



Dead Shot (The Gun), illustrated 



Field. Cover and Trap Shooting 



Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Charac- 

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Frank Forester's Manual for Yoimg Sportsmen 

 Frank Forester's Fugitive 8. Sketches, paper 



How I Became a Cracn Shot, Farrow 



How I Became a Sportsman 



Hunting, Shooting and Fishing 



Hmiting and Hunters ef aU Nations, BVost. . . 



HurUngham Gun Club Rules 



Instructions in Rifle Firing 



Nimrod in the North, Schwa tka 



Rifle Practice, Wingate. . 

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Rod and Gun in California 



Shooting 



Shooting, Dougall 



Shootmg on the Wing 



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



B. Davenport, illusti-ated 



Sport With Gun and Rod, cloth 



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



Embossed leather 



Sporting Adventures in the Far West 



fitih Hunter, Van Dyke 



Stephens' Lynx Hunting 



Stephens' Fox Hunting 



Stephens' Yoimg Moose Hunters 



The Gun and Its Development, Greener 



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Map of Northern Maine, Steele. 1 00 



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SPORTS AND GAMES. 



American Boy's Own Book, Sports and (James 2 00 



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



Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes 3 00 



Croquet 20 



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Instruction in the Indian Club Exercise 35 



Laws and Principles of Whist, Cavendish 3 00 



Quoits and Bowls v • 



Skating 35 



Stonehenge, Encyclopedia of Rural si)orts".'.V 7 50 



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KENNEIi. 



American Kennel, Surges 3 00 



Dog, Diseases of, Dalzlel 1 00 



Dog. Diseases of. Hill , 2 00 



Dog Break ing, Floyd ., 50 



Dog Breaking, by Holabird ', -a 



Dog Breaking, Hutchinson 3 75 



Dog, the Dmks, May hew and Hutchhison 3 00 



Dog Training vs. Breaking, Hammond 100 



Dogs of Great Britain, America and other. 



Countries s 00 



Dogs, Management of, Mj^hew, 16mo 75 



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Dogs and the Public 75 



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MfSCELiIiANEOVS^ 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. 



Adventures of a Young Naturalist 



Amateur Photographer ............ 



Animal Plagues, Fleming \ \ 



Antelope and Deer of America 



Archer, Modem * " 



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Atlas of Jersey Coast , 



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Government Report 



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Eastward Ho! ; 



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Humorous Sketches, Seymour ! 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation 



Iceeplng One Cow 



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Maynard 's Manual of Taxidermy 



Manton's Taxidermy Without a Teacher 



Natural History Quadruped 



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Packard's Half-Hours With Insects 



Hstol, The. 



Photography for Amateiu-s 



Practical Forestry, by Fuller ! . " 



Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration, 



Batty ' 



Practical Orange Culture \ ', 



Practical Poultry Keeping .'.*.*.' 



Randall's Practical Shepherd 



Sportsman's Q azetter, HaUock . . " " 



Sportsman's Hand Book, Col. Horace Parii! 



Studies in Animal Life, Lewis 



The Cream of Leicestershu-e !. 



The Forester, by Brown , ! 



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



The Heart of Europe . . 

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The Zoological Atlas ,2 vols 



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Wild Flowers of Switzerland 



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