Guns and Shooting Gunmaking, etc. 89 



1017. MODERN SPORTSMAN'S GUN AND RIFLE. J. H. Walsh. 

 Vol. I.: "Game and Wildfowl Guns." This is a 

 comprehensive work on sporting guns ; contains full 

 descriptions of many varieties, most being well illus- 

 trated with carefully executed woodcuts. The theo- 

 retical portion is cleverly written, and the value of the 

 results obtained at the various gun and explosives 

 trials promoted by the author is well stated. There 

 is no history of guns. The chief contents are : 

 "Requirements of the Sportsman's Gun for his various 

 purposes," " Trials of the Gun," " Construction of the 

 Gun," "The Hammered Breechloader," "The Ham- 

 merless," "Explosives, Shot, Cartridges and Loading." 

 Book II., "Punt Guns." There is also a Glossary, 

 Appendices on " Siemens' Steel for Gun-barrels " and 

 " Choke-boring by Compression," and a capital Index. 

 The excellent woodcuts are the feature of the work. 

 (For Vol. II. see No. 1102.) Horace Cox, London, 

 1882. Demy Svo, 460 pp. text and 72 pp. advts. 



1018. SOME WEAPONS OF WAR, as improved by recent 

 American inventors. Wallace A. Bartlett. A com- 

 pilation from patent specifications, about fifty pages 

 devoted to small firearms. Republican Press, Washing- 

 ton, D.C., 1883. Svo, 98 pp., zincograph illustrations. 



1019. SPORTING FIREARMS, for Bush and Jungle. F. F. R. 

 Burgess. " Hints to intending griffs and colonists on 

 the purchase, care and use of firearms, with useful 

 notes on sporting rifles, etc." Some commonplace re- 

 marks, rather superfluous advice, and poor illustrations 

 drawn by the author. The last chapter, treating of 

 Indian experiences, is the best. W. H. Allen, London, 

 1884. Svo, 136 pp., 7 plates. 



1020. SHOOTING. Lord Walsingham and Sir R. P. Gallwey. 

 These two volumes of the Badminton Series consist 

 of Vol. I." Field and Covert." A short history of 

 game shooting, hints for beginners, short history of 

 gunmaking, prices of guns, choice of guns, shooters, 



