Dec. 29, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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A FOREST AND STREAM will be a reminder 52 times a year of you and your' affection. Another good presenfis a book relating 
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tinues to give pleasure. The FOREST AND STREAM’S list of books contains most of those suited to the tastes of men and 
women who are fond of outdoor life. Our illustrated catalogue will be sent free on application. 
It is well to order your books early, for the last weeks and days before the holidays are times of great stress and hurry. 
Uncle Lisha's Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.26. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
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 evening and dull outdoor days, 
“to swap lies.” 
Sam Lovel's 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. 16mo. 
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, $1.00. 
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 1 Have Fished With,” “Adirondack 
Fishes,” and “Modern Fishculture in Salt and Fresh 
Water.” With portrait of the author. Cloth, $1.50. 
Forest Runes. 
Pcems by George W. Sears (“Nessmuk”). With arto- 
type portrait and autobiographical sketch of the author. 
Cloth, 208 pages. Price, $1.50. 
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 opens 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.. 
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, 360 
pages. Price, $1.00. 
Trap-Shooter's Ready Reckoner. 
For ascertaining at a glance the Division, of Moneys in 
Trapshooting. Paper, 25 cents. 
There are forty tables, covering varying entry fees, 
prices of targets and number of entries, and it is the 
work of only a moment to determine the purses in the 
various events. Such a reference book as this is as use¬ 
ful to the trapshooter as his interest tables are to the 
bank clerk. 
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. 
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, cook¬ 
ing 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, $2.60. 
Jack, the Young Ranchman; 
Or, A Boy’s Adventures in the Rockies. By George 
Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. Cloth. Price, $1.25. 
Manual of toe 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, $1.26. 
Domesticated Trout. 
How to Breed and Grow Them. By Livingston Stone. 
Fifth edition. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $2.50. 
The Spaniel and Its Training - . 
By F. H. F. Mercer. To which are added the Ameri¬ 
can and English Spaniel Standards. Cloth. Illustrated. 
Price, .$1.00. 
Angler's Guide to Eastern Canada. 
By E. T. D. Chambers. Showing where to fish. Paper, 
122 pages. Price, 25 cents. 
Modern Fishculture in Fresh and 
Salt Water. 
By Fred Mather, author of “Men I Have Fished With,” 
with a chapter of Whitefish Culture by Hon. Herschel 
Whitaker, and a chapter on the Pike-Perch by James 
Nevin. Illustrated. Price, $2.00. 
My Angling Friends. 
A Second Series of “Men I Have Fished With.” By 
Fred Mather. Cloth, 369 pages, with 13 illustrations. 
Price, $2.00. 
As the delightful character sketches which Mr. Mather 
wrote for Forest and Stream were among the best 
things ever printed in that journal, so the volume made 
up of the first chapters of the series has had wide pop¬ 
ularity and taken a secure place among the classics of 
American angling literature. The welcome given that 
book has prompted the publication of a second one, con¬ 
taining almost all of the chapters not included in the first. 
Familiar Fish and How to Catch 
Them. 
A Practical Book on Fresh-Water Game Fish. By 
Eugene McCarthy. With an introduction by Dr. David 
Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Junior Uni¬ 
versity, and numerous illustrations. Price, $1.50. 
With Fly-Rod and Camera. 
By Edward A. Samuels. Cloth, 480 pages, 7x9$£ inches, 
147 illustrations. Price, $5.u0. 
Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun irom 
childhood to marfhood; from the killing of little 
fishes and birds, to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. 
Illustrated. Price, $2.00. 
It was a happy thought that prompted Mr. Fred Mather 
to write of*his fi>hing companions. The chapters were 
received with a warm welcome at the beginning and have 
been of sustained interest. The “Men 1 Have Fished 
VV ith” was among the most popular series of papers 
ever presented to Forest and Stream readers. 
Manual of Taxidermy for Amateurs 
A complete guide in collecting and preserving birds 
and animals. , By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated. New 
edition. Price, $1.00. 
Taxidermy Without a Teacher. 
By Walter P. Manton. With illustrations. Price, 60 
cents. 
The Complete Sportsman. 
A Manual of Scientific and Practical Knowledge De¬ 
signed for the Instruction and Information of all Votaries 
of the Gun. By Howard Gasper. Illustrated. Cloth, 
277 pages. Price, $2.00. 
The Still-Hunter. 
A Practical Treatise on Deer-Stalking. By Theo. S. 
Van Dyke. Extra cloth, beveled, 390 pages. Price 
$1.75. 
“The 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. 
The Gun and Its Development. 
With Notes on Shooting. By W. W. Greener. Breech¬ 
loading Rifles, Sporting Rifles, Shotguns, Gunmak¬ 
ing, Choice of Guns, Chokeboring, Gun Trials, 
Theories and Experiments. Fully illustrated. Cloth, 
770 pages. New edition. Price, $3.00. 
“The Gun and Its Development” is the standard work 
of the age on projectiles and all relating to them. 
American Duck Shooting. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Cloth, 630 pages. With 58 
portraits of North American Swans, Geese and Ducks, 
Plans of Boats and Batteries. Fifty Vignettes in the 
text and a Chart of the topography of a duck’s plumage. 
Price $3.50. Edition de luxe, price $5.00. 
My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trap¬ 
ping, Trading and Indian Fighting. 
By W. T. Hamilton (“Bill” Hamilton). With 8 full- 
page illustrations by Chas. M. Russell. New York. 
Cloth. 223 pages. Price $1.50. 
Hunting Without a Gun 
And other papers. By Rowland E- Robinson. With 
illustrations from drawings by Rachael Robinson. 
Price, $2.00. 
This is a collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
tributed to Forest and Stream and other publications, 
and now for the first time brought together. 
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