Short Stalks, or Hunting Camps, North, South, East, and West.
By E. N. Buxton. (Stanford.)—Mr. Buxton's book is one of the best descriptive books of big-game hunting in many lands we have ever read. He has tried for most of the trophies of the hunter,—elk, chamois, ibex, big-horn, mouffion, tezard, moose, and others, leaving Africa unvisited, except for the Barbary sheep (this tragelaphus). His style is easy and pleasant, not too sporting, and with a keen eye to the scenery of his stalks. Mr. Buxton takes care to explain that he is the best sort of sportsman, de- claring that in all these journeys, extending over more than a quarter of a century, he was personally responsible for the death of less than eighty quadrupeds. The last chapter, a mountain climb, is capital reading. The illustrations are good, and the volume is one most sportsmen will thoroughly appreciate.
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