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FOREST AND STREAM. 

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FOR THE HOLIDAYS—RICH BOOKS, ETC. 
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We resume our special list of booksellers,and have the pleasure to pre- 
sent to notice at this time, D. Appleton & Co.’s rich and valuable list of 
books for the holiday season. All our friends will give them a callon 
this New Year season. It willbe richly worth a tarry of an hour in this 
great book mart. Many of our readers who have neyer had a peep within 
this great warehouse of literature, shonld visit this place and take the 
boys and girls with them, and please them for once again at this season 
for holiday presents. For the older young men, place in their hands 
William H. Seward’s ‘“Travels Around the World.” For the younger 
readers vou can select from the magazines and monthlies. First, the 
Science Monthly, with all its illustrated papers, fitting present for our 
college presidents, a8 well as our first scientists. A perfect library of 
the rich and rare are here to select from; works of different kinds in 
Natural History, Chemistry, the Arts, and amusing miscellany of all 
prices to suit all purses, from the magnificent and costly ‘‘Picturesque 
America” to the modest $1 treasures of knowledge,too numerous to men- 
tion, are here invitingly spread before you, for the good of all who may 
desire to while away an hour in their delightful rooms. 
The last, though not least in tasteful,execution and beauty of illustra- 
tion, we note as the book par eacellence for the gift of the Christmas and 
New Year season, is the “Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” and although the 
subject may have been a dream, this fine dijow is a reality, such as any 
one would be glad to receive. It will rank a No.1 among the finest 
books for presentation. We regret the short limits of our holiday notes 
will not allow us to say all we wish of this fine artistic work. 
G. W. Carleton & Co., as usual are prepared to fill 
orders forall the nice books and magazines in the market. Among 
their last we have ‘“‘The Little Wanderers,’’ a fine book for our little 
folks; delightful stories are there for old and young. ‘‘Fanny Fern,” a 
memorial volume, by James Parton,full of deeply interesting reminiscen- 
ces for all who loved to read the ever-bright and healthf ul truths of Fanny 
Fern. A well written, well compiled book, and it will be well received 
by her many friends. 
Among other attractive works we notice, as deservedly popular, 
‘A Wonderful Woman,” ‘‘Trueas steel,’ “Kenneth, My King,” an ex- 
ceedingly interesting new novel by Miss Sallie A Brock, that ranks 
among the very best works of modern American fiction. Price $1 75. 
“Purple and Fine Linen,” a remarkable new novel by Edgar Faw- 
cett. The dramatic vigor, brilliant style and fearless manner with 
which the most delicate subjects are handled, places this author at 
once in the frontrankof modern nevelists; $1 75. ‘‘Clifford Troup,”’ 
anew novel of absorbing interest by Mrs. Westmoreland of Georgia, 
anthor of ‘Heart Hungry,” which had such an enormeus sale last 
year; price $1 75. “Love” (L’Amour). A translation of Michelet’s 
wonderful book (L’Amour), author of “Woman’’(La Femme). Such 
audacity and delicacy, sueh vigorous analysis and tender sentiment, 
were scarcely ever before so artistically combined; $1 50, and many 
others. 
J. B. Lippincott & Co., 715 and 717 Market street, 
Philadelphia, and 25 Bond street, New York City, offer many of the very 
first-class works for the New Year, and for the quoted prices will send at 
sight any of their books, among which wecan recommend as deserving 
particular notice, the following worthy new books: 
“World of Anecdote Library,” by Edwin Paxton Hood. Anecdotes of 
Things Popular, Scientific, Professional, Moral and Religious. 4 
vols. 12mo, bound in extra cloth, $6 the set. “Ferdinand and Isa- 
bella.” Complete in three volumes, being the first of an en- 
tirely new and revised edition of Prescott’s works, now being issued 
in monthly volumes. 12mo. With plates, Elegantly printed, and 
bound in extra cloth, with printed ornamentation; $% 25 per volume. 
“Lady Bell... A story of the last century. By the author of ‘‘Cito- 
yenne Jacqueline,” “Sheridan’s Works.’’ With memoir and portrait. 
6vo. Printed from large, clear type, extra cloth, $3 50. 
Lippincott & Co.’s shelves are full of the best variety of books, 
suitable to the coming season, and if our friends will please procure a 
catalogue of their books, they will find arich variety from which to make 
a selection. 
Dodd & Mead have a large array of timely, pleasant 
fireside companions for Christmas, bearing curious, quaint, and taking 
titles for,their patrons, old and young. Among their nice books we 
commend to our readers, as just the book for a present, “The Women of 
the Arabs,” and dedicated to Christian women, a really beautiful and 
valuable work. ‘Kit Carson”’ is one of a series of volumes to appear in 
good style and illustration, called the ‘‘Pioneer Series,’’ and these books 
will sell wherever the adventurous and patriotic sons of America are to 
be found. Dodd & Mead’s books are always considered among the best 
in the book market, and you can here expend your $1 or your $100, 
with the assurance of always obtaining your money's worth. All the 
very latest novels and holiday presents of the season may here be found 
awaiting your orders. 
SILVER AND Gotp. By Dr. R. W. Raymond. New York: 
T. B. Ford & Co. : 
This is a valuable scientific work, containing a very full and concise 
account of mining and metals im the United States, the precious metals 
and the manner of working the mines, and much other information not 
to be obtained from any other source. This worx comprises three parts. 
The first gives you a very plain and true statement of the mining indus- 
tries of California, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Arizonia, 
New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This is by no means a dry sub- 
ject; the reader will find topics of great interest to him in the very first 
part of the work. Part second treats of the grand results of the working 
of all these metals, amalgamation of gold ores, and the production of 
native silver, with many other subjects of interest to the casual reader. 
The third part isthe “Miscellaneous,” so called, and here you haye in- 
formation not to be obtained from any other source. There is much 
thought in this finely written work; our hope is that no “small potato” 
“red tape” economy shall be suffered to throw obstacles in the way of 
such valuable researches as Dr. Raymond here so briefly sketches. Give 
him means to pursue his interesting explorations, to the end that the 
Government may reap some of the benefits of his arduous labors. 
Sourn Spa Ipyis. By Charles Warren Stoddard. 1 vol. 
18mo. In “The Saunterer’s Series.” $150. Boston: J. R. Osgood 
& Co. 
Upon first taking up this book we are ata loss to determine whether 
we are dealing with fact or fiction. As we progress, however, like the 
searcher after hidden pearls, we catch » glimpseof the sparkling ore be- 
yond. The work isa series of sketches of life in the Sandwich Islands. 
It is not a biography, or an individual delineation of one man or family, 
but it tells us ofq roving nomadiacs, who appear to us more like spirit- 
nal or shadowy beings, than real material men. Here the disciple of 
pleasure, the lover of a dreamy life, of a Mahomedan heaven, can revel 
to their heart’s content, can live in no fears of a to-morrow, for here the 
joys of to day give no thought of the future. ‘‘Live while you live” is 
the motto of this book, and a bountiful nature pours out her rich treas- 
ures at the feet ofthe explorer. Here rich fruits bend the boughs of the 
trees to the touch of the eater. The various kinds of sea fish are quite 
willing to be caught; green mossy banks woo to repose, and song and 
dance give him the most pleasurable emotions. An almost oriental para- 
dise opens its doors to him. The book is filled with curious, quaint ad- 
ventures. Barring some faults of grammatical construction and crude il- 
lusions, the book, asa whole, is one that may be truly called amusing 
and readable. 
Dome His Best. By J. T. Towbridge. Illustrated. 
16mo, Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co, © + 
This, like all of our friend Towbridge’s works, is a live book, and 
written with an aim to amuse and instruct. The story of ‘‘Jack Haz- 
ard’’ is continued, and Jack is shown to be a live Jack im his various oc- 
cupations during his school and agricultural life. Who will not laugh 
over his circus adventure and its amusing finale? Everyone—the boys 
in particular—will be pleased with this book. We opine our versatile 
author, J.T. T., had this very thought in his mind: “I will give the 
boys a Christmas treat,” and well has he done it. He has depicted the 
big elephant, the caravan, and the numerous other stories for boys, in 
his own inimitable, hamorous manner, and you can’t help laughing 
whether you will or not. The finale of the elephant show is a serio- 
comic episode, a passing accident that occurs once, perhaps in a boy’s 
life, and is a healthful story, well told. 
Miss Forrester. By Mrs. Annie Edwards.  8vo. 
New York: Sheldon & Co. 
Miss Forrester is unfortunatcly the daughter of an English gambler 
and a French woman, whose early education was much of it received in 
the streets of Paris. She, by fortunate circumstances, reached the posi- 
tion of a ballet dancer, and later in her career she was induced to accept 
the very equivocal one of a gay decoy to a celebrated gambling house in 
Hamburg. These scenes soon tired upon her restless disposition, and a 
dislike to her surroundings induced her to leave this unsatisfactory mode 
of life. Leaving Hamburg, we next find her the companion of a wealthy 
English lady. Here the old vole 1s again enacted. She resolves to take 
a position in life, ‘‘Why should I not?’? is the burden of her thought. 
She is not longin making up her mind that Henry Bryanstone, a rich ar- 
istocratic gentleman, is just the man to make her happy, and she soon 
seeks means for an introduction to him. The friends of Bryanstone are 
not particularly willing he should marry Miss Forrester, and hs knows 
just what they think of the game she is playing. However, he marries 
her, and they haye been married but ashort time when the husband 
hears unmistakable and unpleasant rumors concerning his wife, and here 
commences plot and counterplot, which constitute the interest of the 
book. 
WANDERING Wining. New York: Scribner, Armstrong 
& Co. ‘ 
This quiet, idylic story of English humble life, is full of natural 
pathos and exquisite pen painting; in some of its parts almost painfully 
intensified. Caleb’s wooing may be read with profit; it isin deed and in 
truth a beautiful love story. Everyone who carefully rcads this must 
love Elfida, that noble, strong-hearted maiden, so very unlike most other 
maidens, so true to every noble principle of womanly character and re- 
fininginstincts. ‘Willie’ isa very good character, yet we perceive not 
the least appearance of perfection in this good boy. He is, however, 
“too good” for ahero. The story in allits points is good and well told. 
NortHern Lieuts. Stories from Swedish and Flemish 
authors. Translated by Selma Borg and Maria A. Brown. Phila. 
Porter & Coates, 
As we open the covers of this new candidate for public favor, we find 
it one of the higher class of romantic stories for the young and children 
of a larger growth. Hans Christian Anderson is a name to hold in reyer- 
ence. The good man who tells so many glorious old stories and moving 
tales comes before the literary public as a benevolent Santa Claus, the 
Christmas story-teller, the good genius of the New Year. A rare book is 
“Northern Lights.’ Full of sparkling stories of the first water, and 
most clearly translated, and published in elegant style and illustrations. 
AFTERMATH. A new volume of Poems. 
Wadsworth Longfellow. 16mo. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co, 
This work is destined to be well received, being a third and final series 
of ‘Tales of a Wayside Inn,” a very varied and most charming collection 
of stories, asevery one knows. This book will much confirm the fame of 
its well known author, and lay the reading public, and all lovers of good 
poetry, under new obligations to him. 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
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Tur PuinosopHy or Epucatron; or Pedagogics as a sys- 
tem. By Dr. Karl Rosenkranz, Professor of Philosophy in the Uni- 
versity of Konigsberg. Translated from the German by Anna C. 
Brackett: Gray, Baker & Co., St. Louis, Mo., 1873. 
Scribner, Armstrong & Co. Library of choice fiction. 
“The Burgomaster’s Family,” a very delightful picture of Dutch life. 
Hans BRINKER; or The Silver Skates. A story of Hol- 
land. By Mary Mapes Dodge. Miss Dodgeis the editor of Scribner’s 
new magazine, the St. Nicholas. 
Wonrus; or The Corps of Observation. By Col. Wm. 
M. Runkel. A very humorous novel: J. B. Lippincott & Co., Phila- 
delphia. 
Bauiaps FoR Lirrire Forks. By Alice and Pocbe 
Cary. Collected and published by Hurd & Houghton. A nice holi- 
day book. 

— Happy now are the children whose thoughtful parents have bought 
for them ‘‘Avilude, or Game of Birds.” They gather around the table 
with bright eyes and smiling faces as it’s announced, ‘‘We are to havea 
game of Avilude.”” A whole winter of enjoyment combined with in- 
struction, for seventy-five cents. Sent post paid on receipt of price, by 
West and Lee, Worcester, Mass. 

—Along the line of the Grand Trunk Railroad, between 
the Island Pond Station and the French village of Canti- 
cock, in Canada, a distance of eighteen miles, the country 
is almost an unbroken forest, and wild animals are fre- 
quently seen beside the road staring in wonder at the pass- 
ing trains, while deer, foxes, lynxes, and wolves often 
bound across the rails in front of the locomotive. Some 
years since the latter animals were remarkably plenty, 
sometimes appearing in droves of a dozen or twenty. 
One evening, late in the autumn, a young man had occa- 
sion to pass along this lonesome way on foot, and had not 
accomplished more than half the distance when he heard 
a crackling in the bushes at the side of the track, denot- 
ing the presence of some wild animal. Thinking to fright- 
en the creature he threw a stone towards the place where it 
appeared to be. 
This was answered by a-howl from the wolf, for such it 
was; and what added to the discomfort of the situation, 
various other howls were echoed and re-echoed by wolves 
from all sides, and they soon began to close in around the 
now thoroughly frightened man, who started on a run, but 
was soon obliged to slacken his pace from sheer exhaustion. 
Although the packfof wolves now numbered about twenty, 
they still, for some reason, failed to attack him, but sur- 
rounded him at the distance ot a few paces, each moment 
growing bolder and bolder. In his desperation he picked 
up stones and threw toward them, at which they would 
scatter for a brief period, and he would make another effort 
to escape them, which, however, would prove useless, for 
as soon as he turned to run they would again surround him, 
and the only method by which he could keep them at bay 
was to keep up the shower of missiles, shouting at the top 
of his voice. 
By Henry . 

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. | 
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This paper is a model of typographical neatness, and its contents are 
sufficiently varied and interesting to secure forit a cordial reception 
from that class of the public to whose taste it caters.—[New York Times. 
It is a handsome sheet of sixteen large pages, and is filled with a va- 
riety of very interesting reading.—[New York Sun. 
There is need for a new advocate to make the American people more in 
love with outdoor life, and Forest AND STREAM promises to do the work 
admirably. The various departments are edited with knowledge and 
skill.—[New York Journal of Commerce. 
The publication of a new sporting journal, Forest AND STREAM, is 
another evidence of the increasing love of our people for the sports of 
the field and athletic exercise. There is every evidence that good fortune 
awaits the new-comer. That this should be so is a source of congratula- 
tion.—[New York Express. 
Its preposessing appearance is no slight confirmation of its claim to a 
high and manly tone in its conduct—[Home Journal. 
It is tastefully arranged and handsomely printed, and seems to be well 
adapted to persons of cultivated tastes.—[New York Tribune. 
Mr. Hallock is an enthusiastic sportsman, a good writer, and compe- 
tent to make a ‘‘sporting paper” fit for household reading.—[New York 
Commercial Advertiser. 
We commend with special earnestness the claims of FoREST AND 
Stream to favorable attention.—_[The South. 
We may safely predict its success. —[New Orleans Home Journal. 
It is neat as to typography and varied and interesting as to contents. 
—[Hartford Times. 
The matter of the sample number is both appropriate and interesting. 
—[Brooklyn (E.D.) Times. 
It is a necessary publication, and we welcome its birth with open arms. 
It occupies its own position, intruding upon no pre-occupied ground, but 
it is an elevated position. To sportsmen of the gun and fishing-rod it will 
pve inivaluable.—[Brooklyn Review. 
Got up in a handsome manner, both as to presswork and arrangement 
of contents.—[Philadelphia Ledger. 
It is decidedly the most recherche thing of the kind ever issued in this 
country, and so far as we know is the peer of anything similar in Eng- 
land. All its departments show a practical and intellectual filling up 
which challenges general favor.—[Germantown Telegraph. 
Judging by the number before us we can unhesitatingly recommend the 
Forrest AND STREAM to all who take an interest in out-door recreation 
and physical culture. It will no doubt merit the patronage of our sport- 
ing gentlemen.—[Every Evening, (Wilmington, Delaware). 
The terms are very reasonable for sucha large and necessarily expen 
sive paper. We commend it to oursportsmen friends most heartily. We 
like the ring of its editorials, evidently written by the true loyer of nature 
in its multiplied and beautiful forms.—[Niagara Falls Gazette. 
There is a standard of excellence and usefulness not yet attained by 
any sporting paper in the country, and Forest AND STREAM will find its 
success at the top of the ladder.—[New York Graphic. 
It covers ground not occupied by any other journal.—[Waterloo (New 
York) Observer. 
Sincerely hope it will live long and prosper. 
success. —Springfield (Mass.) Union. 
Health, longevity, and happiness largely depend upon such open air 
pursuits, and a journal like this is the best means to effect the object.— 
Portland (Me.) Argus. 
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. 
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I hope you will meet with entire success in your project. My days of 
active life in the field and forest have gone by, but I recall my experience 
with pleasure, and I feel that I owe my health in a good degree to early 
habits of free exercise in the open air in forests and along our streams. 
—[Horatio Seymour. 
There is a demand for just sucha paper as this. It will give me very 
great pleasure, indeed, todo allI can tohelp your journal.—[Professor 
S. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institute. 
I have no doubt that Forest AND STREAM Will have a large circulation. 
Consider me a subscriber.—[George A. Boardman, Naturalist. 
Such a journal, conducted upon the principles and with the spirit which 
you announce, will certainly find warm support.—[Rey. J. Clement 
French. 
I have.no doubt you will make it a marked success.—[Hon. J. D. Caton. 
I wish you the best sort of success in your effort to make a journal of 
out-door sports such as a gentleman can read and write in.—[{Charles D. 
Warner. 
I doubt not it will be a great success. 
for.—[Major John H. King, U.S.A. 
I have long wished just such a journal to receive into my family, that 
my boys may learn from a better teacher than myself the best way in 
which to follow the sports that in years past haye given me so much plea- 
sure.—[Henry W. Abbott, Boston. 
Under your management it ought to be a success.—[W. H. Venning, 
Inspector Marine and Fisheries, Canada. 
You shall have all the aid and comfort Ican give you in your enter- 
prise.—[Com. L. A. Beardslee, Washington Navy Yard. 
I must congratulate you on the very attractive appearance of your 
paper. Keep it up to the standard you have marked out for it, and it will 
become an assured success.—[Rey. Charles F. Deems. 
Nothing but the exigencies of my roving life have prevented me from 
starting, or trying to start, just such a journal as yours. You shall have 
my hearty co-operation.—[Professor Elliott Coues, Smithsonian Institute. 
Your paper is just what we have long wanted, and will take well in the 
Southern States.—[Dr. R. P. Myers, Savannah, Ga. 
The editorial matter, the contributions, and the make-up and general 
appearance of the paper are just suchas Fishrod and Nimrod admire. 
—[(Genio C. Scott. 
Tam glad to hear of your literary enterprise. It will give me pleasure 
to put you, or any one else representing the ForEsT AND STREAM, in the 
way of getting information for your paper.—[Andrew H. Green, Comp- 
troller, and Central Park Com’r. 
‘‘T take the heartiest interest in Forrst anpD STREVM. I have always 
thought that an Americvn ‘“‘ Land jand Water’’ was needed, and that 
many valuable observations are yearly lost, through the want of some 
such medium of communication between field-naturalists.”.—Prof. G. 
Browne Goode, Middletown Unviersity . 
I wish the Forrst AND STREAM every success, and will be most happy 
tolend any assistance in my power to make it so.—Hon. Robert B. 
Roosevelt. 
Success to your enterprise. I think the field isa broad one, and not 
yet occupied to any good purpose.—Prof. N. A. Newton, Yale College. 
You have got a handsome paper, and one admirably made up. I hope 
you will continue in your success.—J. M. Bailey, Editor Danbury News. 
It certainly deserves 

It is wanted, and must be called 


—‘‘That single barrel gun killed for me this morning six 
rabbits. The other club I have promised to start is looking 
well. If it takes two months to get in the Sharpe rifle I 
shall besatisfied. As a start I send you $25 and names.” 
This is from a young gentleman in Boston. A Prize given 
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