sists of a waterproof leather case, large enough to contain a canister of powder, a bag of shot, copper caps and wadding, spare powder-flasks and shot-belts, a dozen steel chargers, a silver spirit-flagon and cup, a ditto sandwich-box, extra nipples and wrench, gun-picker, turn-screw, oilskin lock-cover, and loading-rod to unscrew in three joints. In addition to the above necessaries, a pair of Balbriggan hose socks, warm gloves, and strong shoes can easily be stowed away, at once insuring three grand advantages to the gunner-ample ammunition, interior and exterior comforts. A padlock against poachers, and a strap with steel swivel, to affix the case to the game-cart, or throw it across the broad shoulders of a stalwart peasant, complete the

We have been induced to give our invention this high-sounding name, because among other gigantic strides that the march of intellect has made, none is more apparent than the modern system introduced by the self-called "Capelocracy" or shopocracy, of calling their goods by outlandish appellations. Thus we read daily of the Panklibanon Iron Works; Caldarium hydro-forma steam apparatus; Eureka, corazza, sans-pli, and armoza shirts; Minuto piano-fortes; Argentine, albata, and electroplate; Chinese liquid; Atrapilatory, teint-noir, columbian, and czarina instantaneous hair-dye; Ambrosial and Sicilian cream; Lubricant crinilene; Arthur's-seat dew; Niouskrene for the hair; Sire manubrium head-brush; Reticulated perruques; Revelenta arabica food; Torricellian shower-bath; Kalydor for the complexion; Anodyne cement and ivory paste, for the teeth; Diorapha, basterna, amempton, and pilentum carriages; Caligraphic pencils; Antigropholos mud-boots; Quaquaversal glass-stands; Paruphanton black silk; Pannus-corium boots; Parana, Syrian, alpaca, lama, and Kohree paletots: Galvanic belts; Alga marina embrocation; Kalos gensis fish-sauce; Patent opaque gelatine. One man designates his building as the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art; while a grocer in Simmery Axe heads his advertisement with a Latin quotation: Veritas est et prævalebit.

To those who may be at a loss for new names, we would venture to suggest the following:-The Polypogony cream, to promote the growth of the beard; the Trichodium balm for the hair; the Illicium or attractive perruque; the Crypsis or concealed scalp; the Rytiphlæa powder, to remove wrinkles; Psamma wash-balls for the hands; Alexiphormica ointment, to counteract poison; Ectos coat, or outside wrapper; Sporobolus sowing-machine; Acerose needles; Acinaciform or scimitarshaped paper-cutters-all of which, if duly advertised and well-puffed, will, we have no doubt, get into universal repute. As we have already nearly occupied the space allotted to us for our monthly contribution, we shall briefly notice the sportsman's costume, which like other fashions, has undergone considerable change since the days of our grandfathers. We no longer have our legs encased in stiff leather gaiters, or our feet and ankles cramped with half-boots, the buttoning, buckling, and lacing of which occupied no small portion of the morning toilet; our sporting jackets no longer contain the oilskin-lined harepocket, the scent of which in the breakfast room was strong enough to hunt a pack of beagles with. Powder is transferred from our heads to our flasks. Ease and comfort in dress are the characteristics of the day, and ought to be the primary object of the shooter, who we strenuously recommend to employ a first-rate tailor, trowser-cutter, and

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bootmaker; and, above all, to avoid the ready-made articles commonly called "Reach-me-downs," which are to be seen in the windows of the advertising crew. It is all very well for the poet-laureates of the tribe of Levi to describe in flowing verse their choice stock of summer and autumn attire: it sounds extremely pleasant to the ear of the gaping money-loving public to hear of awful sacrifices," "alarmingly low prices," ""under prime cost ;" and it is most gratifying to one's own feelings to come to a resolution "not to pay for others," and to "reform our tradesmen's bills." But depend upon it, however captivating such ideas may be in theory, they will not be borne out in practice. Many of our readers will exclaim, "What! go to Stultz or Cook for a shooting-jacket! to Haldane for a pair of cord trousers! to Thomas for boots?-ridiculous! We can get them fifty per cent. cheaper at other shops!" And so we grant they may; but does the proverb "penny wise and pound foolish" never come across their minds? if not, let me remind them of it, and of another true saying, that nothing good can be got under a fair and reasonable price. Look too at the discomfort of ill-shapen, badly-made gear: a man may as well be in the stocks, as have his body confined, his chest contracted, his arms pinioned down strait-waistcoat fashion; and such will be the inevitable result of those who buy cheap goods, if such a term can be applied to the worst of articles. We therefore boldly assert that in the long run, both for comfort and economy, our plan will succeed. We proceed to suggest for August shooting jacket, waistcoat, and trowsers of tweed, a broadbrimmed straw hat, or drab-coloured wide-awake," and a pair of strong, easy shooting-boots, doubly leathered over the toes. For September, a jacket of jean, nankeen, or merino, waistcoat to match, tweed trowsers, strapped to the knee with thin leather to turn the thorns in scrambling through a hedge. For October and winter shooting nothing can be better than a velveteen jacket, lined with fine flannel, a dark kerseymere waistcoat, cord trowsers, strapped with leather as abovementioned, plain or waterproof beaver hat, according to the season. With respect to pockets, we recommend every sportsman to follow his own caprice. The best way is, when trying on your gear, to bring the hand naturally up to the most convenient places which the "man of measures" can mark with a piece of chalk. Peal's (Duke-street, Grosvenor-square) waterproof boots will keep out any quantity of wet, and answer admirably where much exercise is not taken. Thomas, of St. James's-street, or any other first-rate bootmaker, will turn out every article, from the light shoe for September shooting to the thick doublesoled boot for winter wear. As the late Theodore Hook used to say"Take especial care to have your last made an inch-and-a-half longer than your feet, that there may be plenty of room left for any supplementary tow (toe), without which you may be crippled after one day's work for the whole of the season.

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THE PEREGRINE FALCON.

ENGRAVED BY H. BECKWITH, FROM A PAINTING BY T. WILLIAMS.

The Peregrine Falcon of the naturalist, and the slight falcon of the sportsman, is in every way one of the most noted of the hawk tribe. In the opinion of Mr. St. John, the celebrated naturalist, the former title is the more expressive, as the bird is to be found in all countries. From the same eminent authority we learn that few vary so much in size, though this we imagine depends greatly on the climate, as well as on the manner in which they are reared. In the British isles the peregrine ranks amongst the first of falcons for all those qualities which are valuable to the sportsman. For size, courage, and beauty, as also for tractability of temper and certainty in pursuit of its quarry, we have none more noble; while its power and prowess come in good support to the confidence with which it makes an attack. It must be a strong bird indeed that can withstand the rapid powerful swoop and fierce blow of the peregrine, who will strike the head off a grouse or a pigeon with one blow, dividing the neck as completely as if it had been cut off with a sharp knife.

As well as differing so much in size, the peregrine alters greatly in appearance, in fact so much so from moulting, age, sex, and other causes, as to have been classed by our early naturalists under many separate heads or degrees. The farther research, however, and careful observation of more recent authorities, have cleared up these always unsatisfactory divisions, and left to us the peregrine as a falcon that from its carriage and peculiarly gallant bearing altogether, may be duly if not easily recognised under all the many disguises we have referred to.

When once civilized, or rather indeed when once caught, no bird takes readier to, or becomes a firmer ally of the sportsman-the difficulty is the procuring them, especially when you have to depend on "the woods and forests" alone for your supply. Well-seasoned bait and artfully contrived traps are of little avail here, for with the fine taste and spirit of the sportsman the peregrine will eat no game but what he himself can kill. Grouse, plover, and wild-fowl are his favourite food, though he has been known to descend to rabbits and rats-still but once slain, and in the strictest etiquette of barbarian warfare it becomes a bounden duty to sup of the vanquished, whatever his state or attractions may be. Mr. St. John gives us an amusing instance of this in a tame peregrine of his own, that lived for some years in the most intimate and friendly terms with an owl. Unfortunately, however, they quarrelled one day at dinner-with a single blow the bird of Minerva was prostrate, leaving nothing to tell of his untimely end but a few feathers and an indigestible pair of drum-sticks.