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The Atlantic Monthly— 1911 
THE PATRICIANS 
A Serial Novel by JOHN GALSWORTHY 
The Atlantic has not published a serial since 1908 . The editors have been waiting for a story 
which seemed to unite marked narrative interest with that finish of workmanship which should 
characterize an Atlantic serial. Such a story is “The Patricians,” a new novel by John Gals¬ 
worthy ; the story of agreeable people living their lives among the shifting problems which 
confront the English aristocracy of to-day. It is fundamentally a love story, and the two con¬ 
trasted heroines will be remembered long after the last chapter is read. 
A JOURNAL OF THE SIERRAS 
By JOHN MUIR 
John Muir left college with little money and less health, and offered his services to a ranch¬ 
man. He was engaged as a herder to help drive some two thousand sheep. This journal is a 
finished record of this unforgettable journey. Besides its exquisite appreciation of the glories 
of the sierras, the journal gives a highly entertaining account of the drive, interspersed with 
philosophy, wit, knowledge, and infinite enthusiasm. 
ROBERT E. LEE 
By GAMALIEL BRADFORD, Jr. 
A series of sympathetic, fair-minded studies of the character of a great American by a writer 
educated in the traditions of Massachusetts’ abolitionists. In the preparation of these papers 
Mr. Bradford has exhausted every source of first-hand knowledge. The Lee he draws is the Lee 
of fact, not the Lee of legend. 
A YEAR IN A GOAL MINE 
By JOSEPH HUSBAND 
The author of this narrative, after graduating from college, sought employment in a coal mine 
of the Middle West. After months of labor in a community of underground workers composed 
of every nationality, a fire broke out, and against it for three months the men fought a series of 
tragic battles culminating in utter disaster. The story is told with great dramatic energy, and 
the pictures of life four hundred feet below the earth’s surface are strangely interesting. 
THE CO-OPERATIVE FAMILY 
By FRANCIS E. LEUPP 
A series casting a white light upon many 
domestic difficulties. Among them will be 
such papers as “The Crooked Stick,” “The 
Problem of Priscilla,” “ The Stranger within 
Our Gates.” 
MAN AND 
Few 
forgotten Mr. 
regular readers 
BIRD AND BEAST 
of the Atlantic have 
H. C. Merwin’s delightful 
paper on “ Dogs and Men.” It is good news 
to announce other papers in the same category: 
“ Horses and Men,” Henry C. Merwin. 
“ My Dog Punch,” Robert M. Gay. 
“ In Praise of Parrots,” Franklin James. 
THE ETHICAL CONDUCT OF 
GREAT BUSINESS 
This is at the heart of the most important 
problems confronting the American people. 
The Atlantic hopes to number among its 
earlier papers on this topic “ The Public and 
the Railroads,” E. P. Ripley, President of the 
Santa Fe;” “Manufacturing and Industrial 
Peace,” Myron T. Herrick, capitalist and 
former Governor of Ohio. 
NEW ARTICLES 
By GENERAL MORRIS SCHAFF 
Nothing which the Atlantic has printed of 
late years has brought a more human response 
than General Schaff’s “ Battle of the Wilder¬ 
ness.” General Schaff is now at work on a 
new series of historical papers for the 
Atlantic. 
THE ATLANTIC CALENDAR FOR 1911 
will be similar in form to the one published in 1910 , the quotations being entirely new. This 
calendar is a storehouse of ideas, exquisitely expressed, and a constant reminder of what is 
best in American literature. Price 50 cents postpaid, or a copy will be sent to new subscrib¬ 
ers sending us $ 4.00 for 1911 . 
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HUNTING BOBCATS. 
In appearance the bobcat (the North Amer¬ 
ican wildcat or bay lynx) resembles a very 
much overgrown house cat minus most of its 
tail and plus a vile disposition. A very large 
one will measure about four feet from tip to 
tip and weigh forty pounds; but the average 
bobcat is considerably smaller. 
They vary enormously in size, says a corre¬ 
spondent of Baily’s Magazine. One full grown 
female that I shot in 1892 weighed only nineteen 
pounds, while another, a male, killed the same 
day, weighed forty-one pounds. 
Usually they weigh from twenty-five to thirty- 
fivp pounds, an animal of the latter weight be¬ 
ing sufficiently powerful when pressed by 
hunger to kill a yearling deer or sheep. 
Their staple diet, however, consists of the 
smaller creatures of the wilderness, a prairie 
dog being a titbit, while even the house cat is 
not taboo. 
They are also extremely fond of lamb, their 
all-too frequent indulgence in this delicacy hav¬ 
ing brought them into ill repute with settlers. 
Sportsmen, too, find them anathema, for the 
havoc they work among game animals and birds 
is in these days of small stocks most serious. 
For this reason they are rightly classed as pests, 
sometimes with a bounty on their heads. 
It is an animal of so sly and retiring a dis¬ 
position that the most skilful hunter might seek 
it unavailingly for years if unaided by a well 
trained dog. Yet in spite of an artfully stimu¬ 
lated scarcity the bobcat is far more numerous 
than it is commonly supposed to be. 
This is due mainly to the fact that it was 
not regarded, to use the American idiom, as a 
sporting proposition. A swift change, however, 
is now being effected in the status of the bobcat, 
and in future these wary beasts are destined to 
become increasingly popular as objects of sport 
for dogs, in which capacity they give as a rule 
a much longer and more brilliant run than their 
big cousin the cougar. 
Although really dangerous and able in fact 
to whip easily the biggest untrained dog, the 
bobcat has never been known to attack a man, 
even when in order to make it sit up and look 
pleasant it has been teased with a short stick 
among the branches of its arboreal retreat. 
SPORT IN THE SOUTH. 
Fair shooting in the lagoons and prairies to 
the westward of Bucktown was had recently by 
several sportsmen who went out and quite a 
number of ducks, mostly brancheurs and teal, 
were killed. A few poule d'eau were shot, but 
without dogs hunting in this section is almost 
useless, as the grass is still so high that the 
game is usually lost. 
Burning of the prairies in many places along 
the lake shore, while hard on the food supply 
of weeds and grass seeds, on which ducks and 
ponies d’eau feed, has made a number of choice 
snipe shooting grounds. Snipe frequent a 
“burn,” as it makes the ground suitable for 
them to work over and furnishes them with 
food. — New Orleans Picayune. 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which liis skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of “Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it original, 
because, as the chapters will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the 
forms of practice followed were his own. This then may 
be termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it 
was successful in his own experience, being here set forth 
simply and intelligently, it will prove aot less effective 
with others. 
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