The Story of Jack, and Other 
Dog Stories 
By Horace Lyte 
There are many people who will 
agree that a really good dog story is 
as fine a piece of entertainment as can 
be found, and all such will delight in 
this unusual group of stories written 
by a man who knows dogs as few do. 
In these stories are humor, pathos and 
real drama, and in each one the chief 
character is a dog, airedale, collie, set- 
ter, or hound. Here is an unforget- 
table gallery of dog portraits: Jack, 
the lovable airedale who liked butter 
cakes and who fought to the death with 
a vicious Eskimo dog in Nome; Sandy’s 
“golf dog,” Bruce, who was allowed 
in the championship match as a caddy; 
Old Frank, the setter, who “held his 
point” while a whirling snowstorm 
nearly buried him; and others equally 
vivid with interest and life. It is a 
book that contains the companionship, 
the affection, the heroism, and the good 
sense that are to be found in dogs such 
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Photo courtesy of Northern Pacific Ry. 
as “Jack,” “Pal,” “Old Frank,” and 
the rest. Published by D. Appleton 
& Co., New York, for $1.50. 

Lure of the Wilds 
By ESTHER NELSON KARN 
A book of charming little verses con- 
cerning the woods, fields and waters. 
The authoress is thoroughly conversant 
with the ways of nature and has the 
pleasing faculty of creating within the 
reader a mood essential to the fullest 
enjoyment of her theme. Her subject 
matter covers a wide range. On one 
page she treats lightly the domestic 
difficulties of a family of frogs; then 
through such chapters as The Mar- 
riage of May, Dance of the Snowflakes 
and Toa Waterlily she leads the reader 
to things philosophic. Of such char- 
acter are the verses Along the Way, 
Maxims and The Hero of Every Day. 
Sentiment rather than sentimentality, 
characterizes the work throughout. 
Published by The Four Seas Company, 
Boston, Mass. Price $2.00. 

Sitting up but not barking. The cook at Lake Camp, Yellowstone National 
Park, is not as friendly to the bears as she appears in the picture. 
Her 
kitchen is fitted with screen doors, but what’s a screen door to a hungry 
bear? 
The ready broom works many times without striking the floor 
during the course of the season. 
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Fresh Tracks in the Belgian 
Congo 
By HERMANN NORDEN 
Interest in Africa seems to be a 
perennial thing if we may judge from 
the number of books published yearly 
having to do with the Dark Continent. 
Occasionally an exceptionally good book 
appears giving us a new slant on the 
ways of the natives, economic condi- 
tions, big game hunting and other 
things strictly African. Such a book 
is Fresh Tracks In the Belgian Congo. 
Profusely illustrated with unusual 
photographs, it is interesting through- 
out its 298 pages of well written, 
printed matter. A map in the front of 
the book describes the course taken 
from the eastern frontier to the river 
itself. Published by Small Maynard & 
Co., Boston, Mass. Obtainable from 
FOREST AND STREAM book department. 

The 20 Bore in New Brunswick 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
| HAVE just read with considerable 
interest in the August issue of For- 
EST AND STREAM an article by Dr. B. 
J. McCary of Norfolk, Va. 
While we have no quail here, we do 
have very good shore bird shooting, 
and the variety consists of black- 
breasted plover, beadle heads, summer 
and winter yellowlegs and _ golden 
plover. These are what the law allows 
one to shoot. They arrive in goodly — 
numbers about August 10th and the 
season opens on the 15th. 
Up until last year I had been shoot- 
ing a 12-gauge Lefever, but bought a — 
20-gauge Ithaca and I find it the best 
gun I have used. No 12-gauge gun is 
required for shore birds, although: I 
would not have agreed with Dr. Mc- 
Cary in 1923, but certainly I do now. 
I kill as many birds as we can use at 
the house, kill them as clean and in a 
more sportsmanship manner. The limit 
is 15 birds, but we do not kill that 
many as we cannot use them. 
I agree with Dr. McCary that soft 
shot is quie the right thing to use, as 
well as No. 10s in size, as the birds de- 
coy close in, possibly no farther than 
the rise of quail over pointing dogs. 
My 20-gauge Ithaca is a No. 1 Grade 
with 26-inch barrels, right barrel cyl- 
inder and left barrel modified choke. 
This boring suits quite well, but I may, © 
at some future date, get an extra set 
of barrels with right modified choke 
and left full choke. 
Here’s wishing every success to For- 
EST AND STREAM, and I hope that more > 
readers will give their opinions on 
guns, etc., in this very interesting de- 
partment, 
















JOHN L. WISHAaRT, 
Wishart’s Point, N. B.- 
