5 
The New Hunting 
haunts and ways of the nature-folk. Many a hunter finds more pleasure in 
all these things than in the game that he bags. To the true sportsman 
hunting is not synonymous with killing. It is primarily a means ot 
enjoying the free world of the Out-of-doors. We are not to be understood 
as opposed to hunting with the gun or the rod. Every man has a right to 
decide these questions for himself. We wish only to suggest that there are 
other ideals. We wish to point out the tendency to know things as they live 
Copyright, 1901, by Doubleday, Page & Co. liy A. Kadclyffe Dugraore 
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and for what they are. There was a time wnen animals were known 
mostly in museums, or books that smelled of museums. We now know 
them in woods and fields. We know what they do, as well as what they are. 
A new literature has been born. It is the literature of the out-of- 
doors. It is written from the world-viewpoint, rather than from the study 
viewpoint. Man is not the only, nor even the chief, actor. No longer 
can one write a good nature-piece until he has intimate knowledge of 
the animal or plant in the wild, and has tried to put himself in its place. 
Perhaps the old school of literary effort is not losing ground ; but it is cer- 
tain that the new is gaining. The new literature is founded on specific 
