CURRENT LITERATURE.
CAMP FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES.
Camp Fires in the Canadian Rockies. By W. T. Hornaday. (T. Werner Laurie. 16s.)—It is with considerable satisfaction that one notes the change that has come over the big-game sportsman within the last half-dozen years. Here is an American naturalist who begins his fresh and spirited narrative of mountain goat and big-horn hunting with some sound advice to the British Columbian Government as to its too liberal game-laws. Mr. Hornaday is Director of the New York Zoological Park, his comrade was a game warden, and two of his guides were men who had participated in the buffalo massacres of the "seventies," but who are now all that guides should be. It is pleasant to travel in such good company and to hear such capital stories, and the photographs of goats taken by Mr. Phillips at distances of twelve, eight, and even four feet would be a feather in any man's cap. This is rock-climbing par excellence; scaling the " house-roof " type of mountains, as Mr. Hornaday calls these Kootenay Rockies, with a camera, and taking snap-shots at goats in the act of charging you. Tho feats of climbing performed by these goats' astonished even the guides, and their coolness when cornered was scarcely less surprising. The Norboe brothers, with that racy and picturesque dialect that comes from the old cattle countries, are delightful ; and the party altogether appears to have had a happy jaunt. We hope that the authorities will take up the question of game preservation conscientiously. But they must be supported by the guides, who ought to be unofficial game wardens themselves, and last, but not least, by sportsmen. It is not pleasant to recollect the number of men who by birth and training should set an example, yet break the laws and bribe their guides to smuggle trophies out of the country. That it should be left to Americans, after killing their own game, to try to preserve ours furnishes a somewhat ironical comment on so- called methods of preservation. Let readers interested in the subject real Mr. Hornaday's book ; it is the best of advocates for true sport and game preservation.
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