Sept. 29, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
483 
THE SPORTSMAN’S LIBRARY 
Uncle Lisha’s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Iisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
borhood used to meet of evenings and dull outdoor days, 
“to swap lies.” 
Sam Lovers Camps, 
A sequel to “Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth. Price, $1. 
Danvis Folks. 
A continuation of “Uncle Lisha’s Shop” and “Sam 
Lovel’s Camps.” By Rowland E. Robinson, lljmo. 
Price, $1.25. 
Uncle Lisha’s Outing. 
A sequel to “Danvis Folks.” By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. Price, $1.25. 
A Hero of Ticonderoga. 
By Rowland E. Robinson. Cloth, 187 pages. Portrait of 
author. Price, 75 cents. 
The story of stirring events of T7 which culminated in 
the taking of Fort Ticonderoga by the Patriot forces 
under the command of Ethan Allen, and guided into the 
fortifications by the hero of the book, the boy Nathan 
Beeman. It is a well-told story, moving in well-ordered 
progress to the end. 
A Danvis Pioneer. 
A story of one of Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys. 
By Rowland E. Robinson. Cloth, 214 pages. Price, $1.25. 
In the Louisiana Lowlands. 
A sketch of plantation life, fishing and camping, just 
after the Civil War; and other tales. By Fred Mather, 
author of “Men I Have Fished With,” “Adirondack 
Fishes,” and "Modern Fishculture in Salt and Fresh 
Water.” With portrait of the author. Cloth, $1.50. 
Forest Runes. 
Poems by George W. Sears (“Nessmuk”). With arto- 
type portrait and autobiographical sketch of the author. 
Cloth, 208 pages. Price, $1.60. 
Hunting in Many Lands. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editors: 
Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Vignette. 
Illustrated. Cloth, 448 pages. Price, $2.50. 
American Big Game Hunting. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editors: 
Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Illus¬ 
trated. Cloth, 345 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Trail and Camp-Fire. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editors: 
George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt. Illus¬ 
trated, 353 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Like its predecessors, the present volume is devoted 
chiefly to the great game and the outdoor life of Northern 
America; yet it does not confine itself to any one land, 
though it is first of all a book about America, its game 
and its people. 
American Big Game in Its Haunts. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club for 1904. 
George Bird Grinnell, Editor. 490 pages and 46 full- 
page illustrations. Price, $2.50. 
This is the fourth, and by far the largest and hand¬ 
somest of the Club’s books. It <- oens with a sketch of 
Theodore Roosevelt, founder of the Boone and Crockett 
Club, and contains an extremely interesting article from 
his pen descriptive of his visit to the Yellowstone Park 
in 1903. Other papers are on North American Big 
Game; Hunting in Alaska; The Kadiac Bear; Moose, 
Mountain Sheep; Game Refuges, and other big-game 
topics. 
Sharp Shooting' for Sport and War. 
By W. W. Greener. Illustrated. Paper. Price, 50 cents, 
postpaid. 
A manual of instruction in rifle shooting, particularly 
target shooting. The chapters are extremely lucid and 
practical; and the beginner will be grateful for the clear, 
simple and understandable directions here laid down. 
The Camp-Fires of the Everglades; 
Or, Wild Sports in the South. By Charles E. Whiteheau. 
Illustrated, 308 pages. Cloth. Price, $5. 
Mr. Whitehead’s volume on old-time Florida, as it was 
before the war, is one of those beautiful and luxurious 
books we see only now and then in the literature of sport. 
It is a most charming story, giving a wonderfully effec¬ 
tive picture of Florida as it used to be, full of incident, 
of travel and shooting, and Indian fighting. It is beau¬ 
tifully illustrated. 
Camp-Fires of the Wilderness. 
By E. W. Burt. Cloth. Illustrated, 221 pages. Price, 
$1.25. 
The author of "Camp-Fires of the Wilderness” give us 
much useful information that he has gained in the hard 
school of experience while traveling on foot or by canoe 
through Maine and Canada. He tells us what to take into 
camp in the way of bedding, camp equipage, ccoking 
utensils, food and fishing tackle. In short, his book is 
intended to make life easy for the camper and to help 
the novice over many a hard place. 
Samoa ‘Uma 
Where Life is Different. By Llewella Pierce Churchill. 
Price, $1.50. Edition de Luxe $2.50. 
Under the attractive title Samoa ‘Uma, or “All Samoa,” 
Mrs. Llewella Pierce Churchill has written a book for 
which she gathered the material during a residence at 
Apia, where her husband, William Churchill, was the 
American Consul-General. 
“Samoa ‘Uma” is not exclusively about the Samoans; 
there is a chapter on Papalangi life, from which it appears 
that living in Samoa is so different; and some of the best 
things in the book are the personal experience and ad¬ 
ventures of this particular Papalangi woman, whose love 
of outdoor life led her on frequent excursions amid the 
coral reefs and into the dark jungles. 
Jack, the Young Ranchman; 
Or, A Boy’s Adventures in the Rockies. By George 
Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. Cloth. Price, $1.25. 
Jack Danvers was a young New York boy whose health 
was not good, and who was sent by his family to spend 
some months on a Western ranch. This was before the 
extermination of the buffalo and the wild Indian, and 
when the cattle business was at its best. On the ranch 
Jack met with many adventures, learning to ride and 
shoot, killing antelope, elk, etc., riding a wild horse, and 
finally returning to New York the proud possessor of a 
tame wolf. 
Manual of tie Canvas Canoe. 
By F. R. Webb (“Commodore”). Many illustrations of 
designs and plans of canvas canoes and their parts. 
Two large, full-sized working (24x38) drawings in a 
pocket in a cover. Cloth, 115 pages. Price, $1.25. 
This interesting manual of how to build, cruise and live 
in a canvas canoe is written by one of the most enthu¬ 
siastic of the older generation of canoeists, who has had 
a long experience of cruising on the Shenandoah River, 
and oi building the boats best adapted to such river 
cruising. With the help of this volume, aided by its 
abundant plans and illustrations, any boy or man who 
has a little mechanical skill can turn out for himself at 
trifling expense a canoe alike durable and beautiful. 
Domesticated Trout. 
How to Breed and Grow Them. By Livingston Stone. 
Fifth edition. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $2.50. 
Contents: Trout Breeding Works. Ponds. Buildings. 
Hatching Apparatus. The Nursery. Taking the Eggs. 
Hatching the Eggs. Care of Alevins. Rearing of the 
Young Fry. Growing the Large Trout. Miscellaneous 
Subjects. 
The Spaniel and Its Training’. 
By F. H. F. Mercer. To which are added the Ameri¬ 
can and English Spaniel Standards. Cloth. Illustrated. 
Price, $1. 
Angler’s Guide to Eastern Canada. 
By E. T. D. Chambers. Showing where to fish. Paper, 
122 pages. Price, 25 cents. 
Manual of Taxidermy for Amateurs 
A complete guide in collecting and preserving bird* 
and animals. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated. New 
edition. Price, $1. 
Taxidermy Without a Teacher. 
By Walter P. Wanton. With illustrations. Price 60 
cents. 
A complete manual of instruction for preparing and 
preserving birds, animals and fishes. 
Camp Life in the Woods. 
And the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making. Con¬ 
taining hints on camp shelter, all the tricks and bait 
receipts of the trapper, the use of the traps, with 
instructions for the capture of all fur-bearing animals. 
By W. Hamilton Gibson. Illustrated. Cloth. 300 
pages. Price, $1. 
Contains comprehensive hints on camp shelter log 
huts, bark shanties, woodland beds and bedding, boat 
and canoe building in the woods, and valuable sugges¬ 
tions on trapper’s food, etc., with extended chapters on 
the trapper’s art, containing all the “tricks” and valu¬ 
able bait recipes of the craft. 
The Complete Sportsman. 
A Manual of Scientific and Practical Knawledge De¬ 
signed for the Instruction and Information of all Vo- 
t?, rie , s Pi the Gun. By Howard Gasper. Illustrated. 
Cloth, 277 pages. Price, $2. 
The Still-Hunter. 
A Practical Treatise on Deer-Stalking. By Theo. S. 
Van Dyke. Extra cloth, beveled, 390 pages. Price. 
$1.75. 
“I he Still-Hunter” is a work devoted entirely to the 
subject on which it professes to give instruction. The 
author is a man familiar with the habits of deer and 
antelope, a familiarity acquired by long experience and 
careful observation, and in “The Still-Hunter” we get 
the results of his experience reduced to principles and 
carefully catalogued for ready use on all occasions. 
Training the Hunting Dog for the 
Field and Field Trials 
By B. Waters. Cloth. 281 pages. Price, $1.50. 
This is the latest and best manual on the subject. As 
an owner and handler of field trial dogs, and one having 
had an exceptionally wide experience in the field and at 
field trials, Mr. Waters was admirably equipped to write 
such a work. It has already taken its place as the 
standard authority. 
With Fly-Rod and Camera. 
By Edward A. Samuels. Cloth, 480 pages, 7x9j4 inches, 
147 illustrations. Price, $5. 
The author is known as one of the most devoted and 
expert salmon fishermen of America. For more than a 
quarter of a century he has made annual excursions to 
the famous salmon rivers of Canada and the trout lakes 
of New England. To his experience as a salmon angle! 
he adds exceptional skill as an amateur photographer, 
having for many seasons taken his photographic outfit 
with him into the woods, with special reference to the 
preparation of this work. The illustrations comprise 147 
full-page plates, which are direct reproductions, by the 
half-tone process, of Mr. Samuels’ photographs. 
The Leaping Ouananiche. 
What it is, where and how to catch it. By Eugene 
McCarthy. Paper, 66 pages. Price, 50 cents. 
Contents: What It Is. Where Found. When to 
Fish. How to E'ish. After Sport at Lake St. John. 
Ouananiche and Salmon Akin. 
Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun from 
childhood to manhood; from the killing of little 
fishes and birds to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. 
Illustrated. Price, $2. 
It was a happy thought that prompted Mr. Fred Mather 
to write of his fishing companions. The chapters were 
received with a warm welcome at the beginning, and have 
been of sustained interest. The “Men I Have Fished 
With” was among the most popular series of papers 
| ever presented to Forest and Stream readers. 
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