Two Books on American Sport

Abstract

BOTH these works belong to the “American Sportsman's Library,” of which Mr. C. Whitney is editor, and both fully maintain the high standard of excellence set by their predecessor in the same series, “Upland Game Birds.” President Roosevelt, whose name appears first on the title-page of the volume on deer, is an excellent type of the best class of naturalist sportsmen, and of his three coadjutors Dr. D. G. Elliot, who writes on caribou, is a zoologist of high reputation, while Mr. A. J. Stone, who treats of the moose, is a famous Alaskan explorer and field-naturalist. Mr. Roosevelt, who contributes a thoughtful introduction to the volume, describes the deer of the Rocky Mountains and Eastern America as well as the prong-horn antelope; while the deer of the Pacific coast fall to the lot of Mr. T. S. Van Dyke. The only disadvantage we see in this arrangement is that the mule-deer is described twice over.

The Deer Family.

By T. Roosevelt and Others. Pp. ix + 334; illustrated.

Salmon and Trout.

By D. Sage and Others. Pp. x + 417; illustrated. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902.) Each volume 8s. 6d. net.