Game, Bag

AN ARTIST'S GAME BAG--Lynn Bogue Hunt--Derrydale ($15).

People who can afford Hardy trout-rods and Purdy shotguns can afford books like this. In fact, 25 such persons may spend $125 each for a leather-bound autographed copy of Artist Hunt's sketch book and put it away for their grandsons to look at when buffleheads, woodcock, black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat exasperate his customers by including only four color prints, and one of those a too-streamlined conception of canvasback, but the black & white pages are made warm by the artist's pencilled notes, ''Yellow Legs, Fire Island--The Good Old Days!"; "Wings of the River Ducks, Monroe Marshes, 1909. All Drakes"; "Pintails--They come in like no other ducks." Best picture in the book: "Woodcock--October Flight," a plate with the violet of early evening on swamp alders, and the big yellow moon coming over the mountain, easily a match for Rex Brasher's more meticulous rendition of the same ghostly little subject.

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