. Review of reviews and world's work. e-brates, — an era thatfor dare-devil, daunt-less courage far sur-passes anything inthe border warfare ofEngland and Scotlandor sea fights of the oldNorth Sea much better did themakers of that heroicera build than theyknew, so much betterdid the reality provethan the dream, that they left an empire wherethey found a wilderness. It is said that the tradeproducts of what is known as the great North-west are four hundred times greater in a singleyear than the purchase price of Louisiana. Forthose practical people who wonder what theexposition is al
. Review of reviews and world's work. e-brates, — an era thatfor dare-devil, daunt-less courage far sur-passes anything inthe border warfare ofEngland and Scotlandor sea fights of the oldNorth Sea much better did themakers of that heroicera build than theyknew, so much betterdid the reality provethan the dream, that they left an empire wherethey found a wilderness. It is said that the tradeproducts of what is known as the great North-west are four hundred times greater in a singleyear than the purchase price of Louisiana. Forthose practical people who wonder what theexposition is all about and pooh-pooh all hero-ism but what can be expressed in terms of thedollar bill, this is a fact to be remembered. Itmay give point to their respect for glory-seekersof those old heroic days, for Bering and Cookand Grey and Heceta and Ledyard coming fromthe AVest eastward, and for Radisson and Mar-quette and La Salle and La Verendrye andLewis and Clark going from the East westward,and even for the poor slave-squaw SOOTY TERNS, TAKEN ON BIRD KEY, DRY TORTUGAS. (Thousands of them thus hover over the heads of visitors.) BIRD-HUNTING WITH THE CAMERA. BY HERBERT K. JOB. (Author of Among the Water-Fowl and Wild Wings [forthcoming; Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New Yorkand Boston]. Photographs by the author, selected from Wild Wings.) THE true sportman goes hunting not becauselie loves to kill, nor (ordinarily) because helusts after the fleslipots. Interest in the observ-ing of wild life enters also as a factor, togetherwith the satisfaction of matching wit againstwit in the chase as a game of skill. Why, then,need one employ shotgun or rifle as the imple-ment when there is another which, to say theleast, fulfills all these requirements and has otheradvantages besides.—the camera ? I wish, at the outset, to enter the claim that Iwrite as a sportsman, not as a fanatic, in hon-estly advocating the substitution of the camerafor the gun in the greatest possible
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