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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 14, 1912 
T ^HE following is a selected list of Forest and Stream’s books which are most suited to the taste 
of men and women who are fond of outdoor life—Shooting, Fishing, Natural History, Camping, 
Canoeing, Yachting. A good book does not wear out, but continues to give pleasure. 
Catalogue giving full list of books will be sent on application. 
American Duck Shooting. 
By George Bird Grinned, cloth, 630 ages. With ob 
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. 
American Game Bird Shooting. 
By George Bird Grinnell. This companion volume to 
“American Duck Shooting” treats of the upland game 
which American sportsmen shoot over dogs—woodcock, 
snipe, all the quail, grouse and turkeys. The volume is 
illustrated by colored plates of ruffed grouse and quail, 
and 48 full-page portraits of different game birds and 
hunting scenes, with a number of cuts in the text. 
Cloth. About 575 pages. Price, $3.50 net. Postage, 25 
cents. 
My Sixty Years on the Plains, 
Trading and Indian Fighting. 
By W. T. Hamilton (“Bill” Hamilton), 
page illustrations by Chas. M. Russell. 
Cloth. 223 pages. Price, $1.50. 
Trapping, 
With 8 full- 
New York. 
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. 
Hunting in Many Lands. 
The Book of the Boone and CrocKett Club. 
Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. 
Illustrated. Cloth, 448 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Editors: 
Vignette. 
Trail and Camp Fire. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett CIud. Editors: 
George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt. Illus¬ 
trated. 353 pages. Price, $2.50. . , . . 
Dike its predecessors, the present volume is devoted 
chiefly to the great game and the outdoor life of Northern 
America; vet 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 front 
his pen, descriptive of his visit to the \ ellowstone 1 ark 
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, and 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. 
Uncle Lisha’s Shop. ^ _ 
Life in a corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth, 187 pages. Price, $1.25 
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 cf evenings and dull outdoor days, 
“to swap lies.” 
Danvis Folks. . , , „ „ c 
A continuation of “Uncle Lisha s Shop and Sam 
Lovel’s Camps.” By Rowland E. Robinson. 16mo. 
Price, $1.25. 
Uncle Lisha’s Outing. J .. 
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 I Have Fished With,” “Adirondack 
Fishes,” and "Modern Fishculture in Salt and Fresh 
Water.” With portrait of the author. Cloth. Price, $1.50. 
Forest Runes. 
Poems by George W. Sears (“Nessmuk”). With arto- 
type portrait and autobiographical sketch of the author. 
Cloth, 208 pages. Price, $1.50. 
The Angler’s Workshop, Rod Making for 
Beginners. 
By Perry D. Frazer. Cloth, ISO pages. Four full-page 
illustrations, sixty working drawings. Postpaid, $1.00. 
A complete, simple and thoroughly up-to-date work for 
the guidance of the amateur rod-maker, carrying him 
from first principles through all phases of successful rod 
making. There is no theorizing or speculation. All 
terms are simple, and all kinds of rods and woods are 
treated of. 
Modern Fishculture in Fresh and Salt Water. 
By Fred Mather, author of “Men I Have F'ished With,” 
with a chapter on Whitefish Culture by Hon. Herschel 
Whitaker, and a chapter on the Pike-Perch by James 
Nevil. Illustrated. Price, $2.00. 
My Angling Friends. 
A second series of “Men I Plave Fished With.” By 
Fred Mather. Cloth, 369 pages, with 13 illustrations. 
Price, $1.50. 
Rhymes of the Stream and Forest. 
By Frank Merton Buckland. Cloth. Heavy laid paper. 
Sumptuously bound. Postpaid, $1.25. 
A charming collection of verse by an author who 
knows and loves nature well. A particularly pleasing 
gift for fishermen, closely simulating in form and orna¬ 
mentation the standard fly-book. 
Jack the Young Ranchman; 
Or a Boy’s Adventures in the Rockies. By George 
Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. Cloth, 304 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Jack Among the Indians; 
Or a Boy’s Summer on the Buffalo Plains. By George 
Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. Cloth, 301 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Jack in the Rockies; 
Or a Boy’s Adventures with a Pack Train. By George 
Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. Cloth, 272 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Jack the Young Canoeman. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. 278 pages. 
Price, $1.25. 
Jack the Young Trapper. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. Trice, $1.25. 
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Jack the Young Explorer. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Price, $1.25. 
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, $1.50. 
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. 
Houseboats and Houseboating. 
By Albert Bradlee Hunt. The book contains forty 
specially prepared articles by owners and designers of 
well-known houseboats, and is beautifully illustrated with 
nearly 200 line and half-tone reproductions of plans and 
exteriors and interiors. A most interesting chapter is 
devoted to houseboating in England. Extra heavy paper, 
buckram. The price is $3.00 net. Postage, 34 cents. 
The Art of Shooting. 
An illustrated treatise on the art of shooting. By- 
Charles Lancaster. Illustrated. Cloth. Price, $1.25. 
Gas Engines and Launches. 
By Francis K. Grain. A few pages are devoted to 
launches in general, with some excellent advice to the 
prospective owner of a motor boat; but the author’s at¬ 
tention is given chiefly to explaining the principles, work¬ 
ing and practical handling of the marine motor for the 
amateur, who does not care to trouble his head with in¬ 
volved technical information. Cloth. Illustrated. 123 
pages. Postpaid, $1.25. 
How to Build a Launch from Plans. 
By Charles G. Davis. A thoroughly practical guide 
for the amateur. Shorn of all blind technicalities, it con¬ 
siders displacement, good construction and faulty stabil¬ 
ity, setting up the keel, framing and planking, with 
careful explanations. Each step is followed up to the 
care and running of the gas engine. Cloth, 9 folding 
drawings, 8 full-page plates, 40 smaller diagrams, 170- 
pages. Postpaid, $1.50. 
Fetch and Carry. 
By B. Waters. Tells minutely of the methods by which 
a dog, young or old, willing or unwilling, may be taught 
to retrieve either by force or “natural” system. Cloth. 
Illustrated. 124 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
Nursing vs. Dosing. 
By S. T. Hammond. A most practical book for the 
dog fancier, based largely on Mr. Hammond’s observa¬ 
tion that dogs, and particularly house dogs, suffer from 
too much medicine. Contents—Nursing, Cleanliness, 
Diet, Other Foods, Kennel and Exercise, Common Ail¬ 
ments, Diarrhea, Convulsions, Epilepsy, Distemper, 
Eczema, Need of Proper Care, Stomach, Vermin, Ear, 
Mange, Nervous System, Colic, Worms. Cloth. Illus¬ 
trated. 161 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
Training vs. Breaking. 
Or Practical Dog Training. By S. T. Hammond. The 
author tells how to bring out the wonderful intelligence 
of the dog by kindness, as opposed to force. A clear, 
explicit work, which will appeal to dog lovers. Contents 
—First Lessons, Charge, Canine Accomplishments, The 
Whistle, Quartering, Retrieving In the Field, Working 
in Company, Raising Puppies, Training Pet Dogs, Con¬ 
clusion. Cloth. Illustrated. Postpaid, $1.00. 
Training the Hunting Dog for the Field and 
Field Trials. 
By B. Waters. Probably the most comprehensive 
work on the subject written, covers every phase of trairv 
ing and field trial preparation with reasons. Kennel 
Management, Breeding, Kenneling, Points of Judging. It 
is a work well calculated to enable the amateur to be¬ 
come a successful breeder and trainer. Cloth. Illus¬ 
trated. Postpaid, $1.50. 
Woodcraft. 
By Nessmuk. No better or more delightful book for 
the help and guidance of those who go into the wild for 
sport or recreation was ever written. No one ever knew 
the woods better than Nessmuk or succeeded in putting 
so much valuable information into the same compass. 
Camp equipment, camp making, the personal kit, camp 
fires, shelters, bedding, fishing, cooking, and a thousand 
and one kindred topics are considered. Beyond this, 
the book has a quaint charm all its own. Cloth. Illus¬ 
trated. 160 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
Log Cabins and Cottages. 
By William S. Wicks. This book covers building for 
the woods from the simplest shelter to the most elabor¬ 
ate cottage, cabin or house, and their furnishing and 
fitting. The details and directions are at once simple 
and comprehensive, and the illustrations are numerous 
and illuminative. Cloth. Illustrated. 44 full-page plates 
and numerous text illustrations. Postpaid, $1.50. 
My Friend the Partridge. 
By S. T. Hammond. A delightful reminder of crisp 
autumnal days in the covers. It tells of sport with the 
noblest of game birds, the habits and habitat of the 
ruffed grouse, with just the right touch of reminiscence 
and personal experience. Cloth. Illustrated, 150 pages. 
Postpaid, $1.00. 
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