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FOREST AND STREAM. 



The officers of the club are William V. Tupper, Presi- 

 dent; Charles H. Hunter, Vice Presiden ; Thos. A. Thorn- 

 ton, Secretary; Henry W. Maxwell, Treasurer; William C. 

 Howard, Captain; Daniel Chauneey, Jr., Lieutenant; and 

 Arthur H, Tupper, Coxswain. 



lutiatml HuMiiMS. 



CRICKET. 



The St. George Club held their annual meeting at Del- 

 monico's on January 15th, at which they elected the fol- 

 lowing officers for 1877 : J. T. Soutter, Esq., President; 

 G. T. Green, Esq., Vice-President ; F. Satterthwaite, 

 Treasurer ; M. H. Talbot, Esq., Hon. Secretary. Commit- 

 tee : Messrs. Moeran, Bowman, Sleigh, Mostry and Gilbert. 

 Mr. Soutter has made himself a general favorite by his 

 courtesy and genial style of managing affairs. Mr. Green 

 is a hard worker in the good cause and so is Mr. Satterth- 

 waite. The latter's financial policy in 1876 resulted in a 

 handsome surplus for the season of 1877. Mr. Talbot will see 

 that the press gentlemen are kept posted in the movements 

 of the clubs, and the Executive Committee incltde gentle- 

 men who are in favor of making the season an active and 

 lively one. 



SKATING. 



The Brooklyn Rink is now an established institution as 

 the fashionable resort of Brooklyn for roller skating exer- 

 cises. On Jan. 25th tbe first grand fete occurred, and the 



picturesque in the extreme. The programme of the enter- 

 tainment was as follows : — 



PKOMENADB SKATING DURING FIRST PART OF THE CONCERT. 



1. Boy l>' race, won by P. Wenterson • 2. Pursuit of the 

 butterfly, won by Miss Sadie McCormick ; 3. Figure skat- 

 ing (by gentlemen amateurs), won by Mr. Prance; 4. Be- 

 ginners' race (by novices on skates), won by P. Colson ; 

 5. Ladies' chase. Prize, diamond ring. The prize, borne 

 by a gentleman skater, to be open to pursuit thirty minutes 

 or until caught, won by Miss Minnie Plunkett. These 

 fetes will take place every Thursday night. On these oc- 

 casions subscription tickets do not admit, nor comple- 

 mentary tickets, the press excepted. 



— Carnival day at the Capitoline Lake has been changed 

 from Wednesday to Tuesday of each week. The boys' 

 races ocgui' on Tuesdays and Saturdays. 



— There are boys' and girls' races at the Rink on every 

 Saturday afternoon, open to subscribers ouly. 

 curling . 



Curling Match— Troy vs. Utica.— The match for the 

 Grand National Club medal, between the Utica and Troy 

 Clubs, was played on the rink of the Utica Club, on the 

 2Gth ult., and resulted in a victory for the Utica Club. 

 The ice was in spk-ndid condition, and there was some 

 very fine playing on both sides. Major John A. Hobo 

 way, or' the Caledonian Club, of Buffalo, umpired the 

 game, and at the Close declared the result and presented 

 tne medal to Benj. Allen, ihe President of the Utica Club. 

 The game lasted from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. The following 

 is the score : — 



TROY CLUB. 

 kink no. 1. 



Thomas Hogg 



Joseph Gtilmore 



Junius tin me 



Joseph Uuuie, tkip 2S 



RINK NO. '4. 



W. Burnside 



■Robert Scott 



Alex . Xynocli 



John Campbell, skip 22 



RINK NO. 3. 



Ji. H Lawton 



Thomas Gtilmore 



John Sawyers 



F. Newton, skip 22 



UTICA CLUB. 



KINK NO. 1. 



L V. Beebe 



Or. Hu<?h Sloan 



W. F. Allen 



vV. B. Taylor, skip 30 



rink no. 2, 



Isaac Whiffen 



Thomas Savage 



J ohu McLean 



VV. Mackie, skip 35 



rink no. 3. 



Benjamin Allen 



James G. b ranch 



Major John Peattie 



C. S. Taylor, skip 38 



Total for Utica 103 



Total for Troy r ,"i 



Majority for Utica Club, 2(j. 



Picquet. — In answer to your correspondent's, Mr. Mi- 

 cawber, query anent the game of picquet, a "lurch," or as 

 it is more generally known a "double," counts as two 

 games. When a player fails to score at all his adversary 

 counts three. In answer to Wm. II. S's first query "A" 

 counts for a pique ; to his second, "B" wins the game, the 

 score being marked 1st point, 2d .sequence and 3d quatorze. 

 101 is still the number of points generally played in Eng- 

 land. Abiqde. 



Chicago^ Jan. 26. 



Mr. Micawber himself writes : "In reply to the questions 

 of Mr. "Wm.H. S.," of Bangor, about picquet, restated 

 in your issue of the 18th inst., I quote, substantially, from 

 Bonn's Hand Book of Games, (London, 1850) : 1. A does 

 not count "10 for inchs" (i. e. cards? ) "and 40 for the ca- 

 pot— 50" because "whichever player wins all the tricks 

 wins what is called a eapot, and, instead of 10, adds 40 to 

 his score." And he does not "count also a pique," because 

 a pique is made only "by the counting of 30 in the hand 

 and play." 2. B wins the game, because both the "point" 

 and the "quint," or "sequence," counts before a "quar- 

 torze." I shall be glad to have Mr. "Wm. H. S.," or any 

 of his friends of the game, answer my queries relative to 

 ' 'the lurch. u Mr. Micawbbjj. , 



Jim/ Hublicztipns. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Large Game and Natukal History of South and 



Southeast Africa. By lion. Wm. Henry Drummond. EdinburK, 



1875. 



Here is a Briton of the higher classes, who leaves the easy and pleas- 

 ant lite provided for him in his comfortable little island, and goos to the 

 wilds of Africa, where he lives for years in palm leaf huts, arnoue sav- 

 age negroes, for the pleasure of measuring himself in combat against 

 lions, panthers, elephants, buffaloes, rhinoceroses, crocodiles, etc. He 

 kills all these animals — not sin sly, but in battalions. He is trampled on 

 by the elephant and buffalo, slashed by the tusks of the boar and the 

 horns of tne giant antelope, and is bitten and stung by all the creepimg 

 things of the jungle. He goes alone by night into the woods to meet 

 a man-eating lion. He passes nights alone in the swamp, among wild 

 elephants and crocodiles, and he is hunted by wildogs. A hundred times 

 his life depends on his steadiness of nerve and accuracy of aim, and 

 yet he tells us he never was a particularly goad shot, but that his suc- 

 cess came from his study of the methods of the native hunters, added to 

 j?onsider^blQ bodily strength, and. endurance, His hunting storieg are 



wonderful, but they are told in so plain and unambitious a style as to 

 carry conviction of their truth. 



Here is an aecount of an attack upon his camp by one of those man- 

 eaters, which we commend to the attention of our holiday sportsmen in 

 the Adirondacks. 



The heat was excessive, and unable to sleep, I had been sitting for 

 some time on my mat smoking and looking at the magnificent constella- 

 tions of the Southern hemisphere, when my eye fell upon my favorite 

 gun, which had been placed against the fence within reach of my hand, 

 and I notice! that the boy whose duty it was to do so had omitted to oil 

 it, and to wrap something around the nipples to keep off the dew. I 

 was still in the act of hunting for a piece of rag to tie around the nipples 

 after oiling them, when the terrified yelp of a dog struck my ear, and 

 raising my eyes I saw a tawny yellow mass bound into the opposite 

 camp, and uttering a muffled row like distant thunder, seize the nearest 

 human being and carry him off shrieking in tte direction it had come 

 from. 



It had all occurred in far less time than I take to describe it, and I had 

 neither time nor presence of mind sufficient to do anything; but now, 

 as it passed the outermost fire on its way towards the reeds, I raised the 

 gun, covered the shoulder, and fired, causing it to drop the man, and 

 with a tremendous roar that seemed to shake the ground, to spring up- 

 wards—how many feet I should not like to say for fear of correction 

 from stay-at-home naturalists— and as it did so I put the second barrel 

 in. It fell to the ground, and struggled there, still roaring in the most 

 fear-Inspiring manner, and in its agony tearing up great clods and tufts 

 of grass with those terrible claws. Seizing another gun I fired again 

 right and left, as quick as I could, and then catching up a little small 

 bore rifle, I emptied it also, thus expending my whole battery. 



Shouting to the hunters to fire I hurriedly commenced loadiEg, glanc- 

 ing meanwhile to see what had become of the men. There was a cluster 

 of some dozen round the trunk of the fig tree, impeding each other in 

 their eagerness to place themselves in safety, while its branches were as 

 crowded as it appeared possible they could be. My reiterated cries of 

 "Fire 1 ' were at last responded to by a solitary shot from some hunter who 

 had taken his gun up with him, and the lion, who had never ceased his 

 furious struggle, nor ceased to roar, answered it by regaining his legs 

 and tottering towards the tree. The men around it rushed frantically 

 away in the darkness, but as I rammed my bullet home, I could dis- 

 tinguish the dark outlines of two figures crouching at its roots. The 

 lion staggered on, weak but vindictive, and seemed to me almost to have 

 reached them, when two flashes of red fire blazed out, and he fell with- 

 out a movement, shot simultaneous'y through the heart and brain, while 

 the two hunters, uncertain of the effect of their bullets, bounded away 

 in opposite directions. As soon as I could see that the brute was really 

 dead I went to look after the man who had been seized. We carried 

 him into camp and examined his injuries; the lion had merely bitten him; 

 bad not used its claws at all; but what a bite it was I It had held him by 

 the neck and shoulder, and literally crushed in the whole side of the 

 chest, and had probably damaged the spinal cord, for he never recovered 

 consciousneHs, and breathed his last in a few hours after. 



One day Mr. Drnmmoud being out with his hunters, armed only with 

 spears, discovered a large baboon sitting on an ant-hill . 



"We got within a hundred yards unperceived, and then, as he made off, 

 I had the dogs slipped, and they had him at bay in a quarter of a mile. 

 He got hold of one that ventured too near, and simply tore it to pieces 

 with his great claws. I was the first to reach the scene of action, and 

 running in hurled a epear at him; it missed its mark, but stuck quivering 

 in the tree against which he was, and he instantly drew it out and shied 

 it back at me, though it came crossways and not point first as a spear 

 ought to. In hurriedly trying to throw a second time I slipped and fell 

 but my aim was more true, and it struck him under the forearm, and as 

 the natives declared— I could not see— the brute snatched the weapon 

 from its body and would have stabbed me had not three or four spears 

 been thrown by the Kaffirs, one of which penetrated to the brain and 

 killed him on the spot. A great ugly brute, with a most disagreeable re- 

 semblance to human beings." 



Well for Mr. Drummond that the brain of this poor relation of his 

 was not sufficiently developed to allow him to throw the spear point first. 



S. C. C. L 



A Valuable Book Forthcoming. —We learn that Mr. 



D G. Elliot is about to publish, in London, two valuable monographs, 

 which will, it is promised, be in no way iuferior cither in the beauty of 

 their illustrations or in the importance of the matter contained in them 

 to those which he has already issued. The splendid plates of his "New 

 and Heretofore TJnAgured Birds of North America," and of his "Mono- 

 graph of the Tetraoninae," are so well known in this country as to need 

 no mention. 



The first of these proposed monographs, that on the Felidae, is to in- . 

 elude, besides the living, the extinct members of the tribe, and will there- 

 fore be almost a necessity to every naturalist working in the departments 

 of vertebrate Zoology or Paleontology. The plates have been drawn by 

 Mr. Wolf, well known as a skillful delineator of animals, and will, no 

 doubt, be all that could be desired. The edition, however, is to be 

 limited to one hundred and fifty copies, after which the drawing will 

 be erased from the stones. The work is to be printed by subscription, 

 and is to be issued in parts at £2.10 each. 



The other work to which we have referred is a monograph of the 

 Bucerohdce or Horn bill. This is also to be printed by subscription and 

 will be issued in nine parts at one guinea each. The plates will be drawn 

 by Mr. J. G. Keulemans and will be all colored by hand. The size of 

 the monograph of the Welida will be Royal Folio, that of the monograph 

 of the Bucerotidoe Imperial Quarto. We shall await the appearance of 

 both books with much interest. 



MAGAZINES. 



"We should not be "true to our traditions" did we not give 

 pre-eminence to Mr. Seymour's artice on "Trout Fishing in the Range- 

 ley Lakes" among the contents of the February issue of Scribner^s. If 

 we have a fault to find with it, it is that the statistical predominates over 

 the desoriptive; yet it has one quality which is too often overlooked in 

 articles of the kind. It gives a clear and comprehensive itenerary of 

 the routes by which the locality is to be reached. The giant trout of 

 Raageley were long looked upon as mythical— that is, myths as regards 

 their being simon pure Salmo fontinalis or brook trout. The question 

 is now definitely set at rest, and Mr. Seymour's account of the monsters 

 annually taken will whet with keen desire the appetites of those sports- 

 men who have not yet visited these famed waters. Many interesting ar- 

 ticles on the Rangeley Lakes and stream have appeared in our own ool- 

 umns. Gen. McClellan's "Winter on the Nile" is continued, and we 

 are taken above the cataracts and fairly into Nubia. Dr. Holland's se- 

 rial story entitled "' Nicholas Minturn" increases in interest, and the 

 hero finds himself not only a "hero" but home again after a remarkably 

 short voyage. The other serial, "That Lass o' Lowrie'a," is a capital 

 story, with the characters drawn with remarkable strength. Among the 

 other contributors, particularly of short stories, we find the names of 

 Saxa Holm, Boyesen, Kate Field, and others. The engraving work in 

 bcribner's is capitally and carefully executed. 



St. Nicholas for February provides the usual and anx- 

 iously looked-f or feast for boys and girls. The picture of Major Andre 

 drawing his own portrait with the aid of a looking-glass forms the front- 

 ispiece. Then we have a very funny little rhyme called the "Sandhop- 

 per Jig," followed by a funny story about an old king who lost his 

 treasures, and a smart pastry cook called Joe. Mr. Ernest Ingersoll 

 has a long "Talk About Canaries," wMch is full of valuable hints and 

 instruction to those who keep, or propose to keep, these cheerful little 

 pets. Mr. Trowbridge contributes a very exciting instalment of his se- 

 rial story, "His Own Master," in which the hero saves alfe and perhaps 

 loses another not half so valuable. Prof. Proctor's lessons in Astron- 

 omy are continued, and any boy or girl who reads them carefully and 

 aj&ii for explanations when required, will find, that they are acquiring a. 



deal of useful and interesting information regarding the heavenly bod- 

 ies. Then there are lots of other stories and articles, among which we 

 must not forget to mention Mr. Copeland's faces of Fishes." The very 

 little folks are provided for, and old Jack in-the-Pulpit sits up on his 

 flower and discourses as wisely as ever. As nearly all of the kt. Nicholas 

 articles are illustrated their interest is greatly enhanced. 



In Appleton's for February we find a very valuable paper 

 from the pen of Mr. Ernest Ingersoll, an able writer and an observing 

 naturalist, on "Our Winter Birds," a classification that we do not re- 

 member to have met with before. It is illustrated with cuts of eleven 

 of the birds whose habits are clearly described. A brief abstract from 

 the pages of Mr. Theodore Martin's "Life of the Prince Consort" gives 

 ue an insight into the character of "Albert the Good," and the means by 

 which his marriage with England's Queen was brought about. The pa- 

 per forms a very interesting lesson in British History. George Sand's 

 novel, "The Tower of Percemont," is continued, and a new serial. 

 "Cherry Ripe," by the author of "Comin' Thro' the Rye," etc., is com- 

 menced. It promises to be interesting. The shorter articles are con- 

 tributed by Junius Henry— we beg his pardon, Henri— Browne, who dis- 

 courses of "The Men who Fascinate Women," Charlotte Adams, James 

 Payne and others. Ella Rodman Church (why will not lady writers 

 name their conditions in life and not compel us to be so brusque?) writes 

 very sensibly about "How to Furnish a House." In fact, to young 

 people about to marry we know of but one better piece of advice, and 

 that is Mr. Punch's. 



We miss from the February number of LippincoWs those 

 cherry letters of Lady Barker's, but still cannot complain of the change 

 ef menu when we see the course furnished in their stead. We allude to 

 the new serial of Berthold Aueroachs, whose "On the Heights," and 

 "Villa on the Rhine," have been so extensively read in this country. 

 The title is "Young Aloys, or the Gawk from America." One can im- 

 agine what a fund there is in the subject for the novelist— the emi- 

 grant's son, Americanized and yet thoroughly posted on life in the Fa- 

 therland, returning to his father's native village. Mr. Brooks has cer- 

 tainly translated well, but we would say to Mr. Auerbach that youths 

 of German extraction in this country do not. often wear diamond pins in 

 scarlet cravats. A pleasant little sketch is Mr. McKay's ''Cruise of the 

 Heron," and even more so is "Hebe," by an anonymous writer. Mr. 

 McDonald's story, "The Marquis of Lossie" is continued, bat we con- 

 fess that we prefer reading Macdonald's works when they are comple- 

 ted. The current issue of LippmooW 's is a capital number. 



Speaking of Macdonald, there is a portrait of him 

 forming the frontispiece of the February Eclectic. We had not the pleas- 

 ure of seeing the original when he was in this country recently. It is 

 said, however, to be a capital likeness, and certainly it betokens a man 

 of noble presence and large intellect, such as we know the poet-novelist 

 to be. The table of contents in the Eclectic comprises the following se- 

 lections: "On Popular Culture" by John Morley; "Towards the North 

 Pole." "The Secret Chamber, A Ghost Story;" Automatism and Evolu- 

 tion," by Charles Elam, M. D.; "A Rhymer's Wish;" "Notes on the 

 Turk, by Edwin DeLeon; "Charlotte Bronte, A. Monograph;" "The Ring 

 of Saturn," by Richard A. Proctor, B.A., F.R.S. ; "Henry the Fourth 

 and La Belle Gabrielle;" "A Year Ago;" "The Fabulous in Zoology;" 

 "Toilers of the River;" "Letty's Globe, A Sonnet," by Charles Tenny- 

 son Turner, and the usual copious editorial ^miscellany of literature, sci- 

 ence and art. 



The Popular Science Monthly for February opens with an 

 article of absorbing interest on "The Trial of Galileo." The author of 

 the paper, which is translated from the Revue des Deux Mortdes, finds his 

 materials in the recent publication by Domenico Berti of a M.S. pre- 

 served among the Secret Archives of the Holy See. In the article re- 

 ferred to the history of the MA is briefly given, after which follows the 

 account of the astronomer's movements and sufferings from 1611 until 

 his death. The whole narrative is written in a most moderate and fair- 

 minded tone, and is extremely attractive in its style. "Distance and 

 Dimensions of the Sun," by Prof. C. A. Young, 'Ups and Downs of 

 the Long Island Coast," by E. Lewis, Jr., and the "Physiology of 

 Mind-Reading," by Dr.Berad.are some of the longer articles of this issue. 

 Among the shorter ones are "An American Astronomical Achievement," 

 by R. A. Proctor, "Nature and Life in Lapland," by Mr. Chamberlain, 

 and "Compressed Air Locomotive," by C. M. Gariel. 



"Gas Manufacture and Gas Companies" will be anxiously read by 

 house-holders, aud is indeed one of the most interesting and practical 

 papers of the number. As a whole the MontlUy is fully up to its usual 

 high standard. 



— Carl Rosa is considered the wealthiest operatic mana- 

 ger living. Parepa left him a large fortune, and viis own 

 efforts have been a remarkable financial success. Report 

 says that he is about to marry again. 



Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, Jewelers, and 

 Importers, have always a large stock of sil- 

 ver articles for prizes for shooting, yachting, 

 racing and other sports, and on request they 

 prepare speeial designs for similar purposes. 

 Their timing watches are guaranteed for ac- 

 curacy, and are now very generally used for 

 sporting and scientific requirements. Tiffany 

 & Co., are also the agents in America for 

 Messrs. Patek, Philippe & Co., of Geneva, of 

 whose celebrated watches they have a full 

 line. Their stock of Diamonds and other Pre- 

 cious Stones, General Jewelry, Bronzes and 

 Artistic Pottery is the largest in the world, 

 and the public are invited to visit their estab- 

 lishment without feeling the slightest obliga- 

 tion to purchase. Union Square* New York, 



