FOREST AND STREAM 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Hudson's Shakespeare,—W e can con¬ 
ceive no better plmt for withstanding- the 
mentally and morally enervating influences of 
the flippant literature current nowadays, than 
to present In attractive and oonvoulent shape tho 
masterpieces of English thought. Far too many 
«t the fruits of genius which have attained the 
position of English classics, have attained also a 
present obscurity which, however unmerited, 
belongs to classics. Shakespeare cannot be rightly 
placed In thiB class of unworthily neglected au- 
thurs. Butene drawback even to Shakespeare is 
tho unwieldy bnlk of his complete works, provid¬ 
ed legible type be used. To read the Merchant 
Of Venice, with any enjoyment, wo cannot afford 
to hold a huge volume and strain our eyes over 
the small type besides. Hence separate editions 
of the plays bavo long been popular. Among all 
thoso theltov. H. N. Hudson’s odition, published 
by Ginn & Heath, Boston, takes the front rank. 
The volumos may he carried In one’s pocket; tho 
typo Is clear, and tho notes Just what aro requir¬ 
ed by nine hundred and ninety-nine readers out 
of a thousand. This has come to be recognized 
ns the edition for the people. Wo are not sur¬ 
prized to leant of its very large sale. Each 
play la Issued separately; cloth, 50 cents. 
Forty Years Notes of a Field Orni- 
thologist,—By John Krkler, Philadelphia, 1879. 
Ju these notes the author of Kidder's Sporting 
Anecdotes, abook widely famous among sports¬ 
men,describes the species of birds which he has 
himself collooted and mounted, and whoso nests 
and eggs he has located. Every fact here stated is 
therefore vouched for; it is not hcresay evidence. 
Tho Information is set forth in a concise, avail¬ 
able way, which cannot fail to be of great useful¬ 
ness to ornithologists. Mr. Kridcr has been 
through some curious experiences, ns nil men 
have been who go ontwlth their gun. Almost 
on the IIrst page wo come to a disagreeable ex¬ 
perience with n black vulture, the mother bird 
defending her nest by employing the unsavory 
methods provided for her; and on the next page 
is a funny story of a duck-hawk attempting to 
make off with a decoy duck. 
Brunhild, A Tragedy from the Nib- 
clung Saga. By Emanuel Goibel. Translated by 
George Theodore Dippold. Boston; Ginn & 
Heath, 1879. 
Tho Niboluugen Lied holds the place in the 
literature of the German nation of tho Iliad in 
Greek. It is the grand epic of the race, first 
sung in stirring strains by tho Minuesangei-s of 
thn glorious reigns of Barbarossa and Fred¬ 
erick II. From it German poets and trage¬ 
dians have for centuries drawn then- richest 
material. Gelbel's Brunhild has attained a 
very high plaoe among the modern tragedies 
which draw their material and inspiration from 
the Nibolungcn sagas. Tho tausiator and the 
publishers of the little volume now bofore lis de¬ 
serve high praise for titejr inestimable service in 
presenting the poem to English readers; the 
translator for tho faithful and happy rendering 
Of the original; and tho publishers for the taste¬ 
ful and handy form of the book. Wo can con¬ 
ceive of no good reason why nur youth should 
bo trained to familarity with the actors and 
events of Greolan mythology and poetry while 
kept In ignorance of the not less grand epics of 
their own race forefathers. It has been and Is 
now the custom of our colleges and semin¬ 
aries to dig and toll year after year Into the 
mines of classic loro. We hope to see the day 
when a part of this time, at least, shall be de¬ 
voted to the Sagas of the Northmen, the Eddas, 
and the Nibolungcn Lied. 
Mr. Julius L. Hubbard of Cambridge, 
Mass., has written, and A. Williams & Co. of Bos¬ 
ton, have published a handy little book entitled, 
“ Summer Vacations at MooseUcad Lake and 
■Vicinity." Of making many guide books there is 
no end; they are of all kinds, good, bad and indif¬ 
ferent. The one now bofore us we should place 
under the first-class. It contains many useful 
hints upon camping out, plain directions as to 
routes, etc,, and is embellished with excellent 
photographs of Moosehead scenery. Price 
91,60. _ 
September Magazines.—Wo have re¬ 
ceived from the publishers, " Harper’s," “ The 
Atlantic,” “Scribner's,'’ “Lipplncott's," “Apple¬ 
ton's," “ Popular Scienoe Monthly ” and " St. 
Nicholas." 
Face to the Front. —Sportsmen will be 
interested in the following incident relat¬ 
ing to Colonel F. G. Skinner, so long con¬ 
nected with the Turf, Field, and Farm., 
and afterwards, for a time, with the Forest 
and Stream. It is related by General P. 
T. Beauregard in a recent letter to the Sun. 
It occurred at Centreville, Va., during the 
visit of Prince Napoleon to Manassas :— 
“ General Longstreet’s brigade, one of the 
best then in the Army of the Potomac, was 
stationed at the former town, and hap¬ 
pened to be drilling near the Fairfax turn¬ 
pike as the Prince and party were pass¬ 
ing. Major F. G. Skinner, one of the field 
officers of the First Virginia Regiment, 
who had been educated in France under 
the auspices of General Lafayette, a great 
friend of his father, came to the carriage 
of the Prince to pay his respects to him 
and his BUite. Major Skinner was also well 
,qe<juaint*fl with Count Merrier wjio intro- 
dued him to the party. Just at that ino* 
ment his regiment had arrived close to the 
road in performing some manceuvre and 
presented its back to the carnages. It was 
one of the oldest regiments in the service, 
and its clothes were rather the worse for 
wear, especially about a certain part of the 
body- Major Skinner, rather disconcerted 
at first by tlie appearance of his gallant 
soldi era, soon rallied from his unpleasant 
emotion, and, with French wit, remarked 
to the Prince and party : “Messieurs, vous 
voyez Id la partie de nos soldats que l’en- 
nerni n'a pas encore vueet j’espere neverra 
jamais ! ” which, of course, created a gen¬ 
eral laugh. Major Skinner writes as well 
as ho fought: and, although multilated in 
body he still retains the full vigor of his 
intellect.'’ 
A Canada Cabane.— The Earl of Dun- 
raven says, in the Nineteenth Century, that 
the greatest luxury he ever found was in 
Canadian camp life, “No man who has 
not experienced it.” he continues. “ knows 
what an exhilarating feeling it is to be en¬ 
tirely independent of weather, compara¬ 
tively indifferent- to hunger, thirst, cold 
and heat, and to feel himself capable not 
only of supporting but enjoying life thor¬ 
oughly, and that by the mere exercise of 
bis Own faculties.” The Earl’s directions 
for making such a camp are practical. 
Having selected a level spot, make four low 
walls of two or three small pine logs la d 
one on the other, and on these raise the 
frame-work of the camp. This consists of 
light thin poles stuck into the upper sm'faco 
of the logs, and the tipper ends leaning 
against and supporting each other. The 
next operation is to strip large sheets of 
hark off tlie birch trees and thatch these 
poles to within a foot or two of the top, 
leaving a sufficient aperture for the smoke 
to escape. Other poles are then laid upon 
tlie sheets of birch bark to keep them in 
their places. A small doorway is left in 
one side and a door is constructed put of 
slabs of wood or out of tlie skin of some 
animal. You next level off the ground in 
side and strew it thickly with the small 
tops of Canada balsam fir for a breadth of 
about four feet; then take pliant ash sap¬ 
lings and peg them down along tlie edge 
of the pine tqps to keep the carpet in its 
place, leaving a hare space in the centre of 
tlie hut, where you make the fire. 
Summer Recipes.—W e find the follow¬ 
ing hints in the letter of a Sun corres¬ 
pondent :— 
Mosquitoes can be driven away from 
rooms by the smoke of insect powder, burnt 
on a hot shovel. When it is nob easy to 
get fire, put a bit of gum camphor m a 
shovel, light, and the gum will catch as 
quickly as alcohol: then sprinkle a table¬ 
spoonful of insect powder (pyxethrum) on 
the flame, let it take fire, and blow out the 
blaze, close the windows, and let the smoke 
rise for five minutes, 
Hanging a cloth on which a teaspoonful 
of carbolic acid is poured, at the head of 
the bed, will keep mosquitoes away. 
A remedy for burns by carbolic' acid is 
Canada fir'balsm, spread on the part at¬ 
tacked. 
A wash of fiftoen or twenty drops of 
common carbolic acid i n a half pmt of water 
will immediately relieve the smart of mos¬ 
quito bites, hives, prickly heat, and all 
irritations of the skin common in summer. 
If it causes any burning in a moment or 
so, it, is too strong and more water must 
be added. 
The pain of teething may be almost done 
away with, and the health of the ohild 
benefited, by giving it fine splinters of ice, 
picked off with a pin, to melt in its mouth. 
Instant quiet succeeds hours of fretfuluess, 
and sleep follows the relief. 
A speedy cure for poisoning by ivy is a 
wash of oxalic acid, a teaspoonful of the 
salt to a pint of water, with which the 
poisoned spots are bathed as often as they 
grow troublesome. The lotion smarts se¬ 
verely for a few moments, hut is followed 
by cessation of the poison pain, which 
itches as if one should tear the part to 
pieces. The above may need reducing for 
young children. A dessert spoonful of 
sweet oil taken daily is said to drive the 
poison out of the blood. It should not he 
put in tin, or anything metallic, as it cor¬ 
rodes, and may form poisonous com¬ 
pounds, 
A strong infusion of yarrow (white tansy) 
and boneset is a good substitute for quinine 
in fever and ague, or other malarious com¬ 
plaints. The plants should be gathered 
when in flower, and a double handful of 
each steeped in one quart of boiling water 
and drank freely three or four time a 
day. 
Tlie animal remains found in the Rocky 
Mountains show the gigantic size of the 
monsters of pre-historio ages. The back¬ 
bone of one animal is three and-a-half feet 
wide, and implies a neck fully five feet in 
width. The diplodveus was fifty feet long. 
Dinosaurians were exhumed twenty-five 
feet long. The atlantosurians, a lizard¬ 
footed animal, must have been forty feet 
long when alive. Another animal, m- 
bededin a hard matrix of rock, which was 
removed with difficulty after much blast¬ 
ing, was thirty feet long. Such were some 
of the monsters that once enjoyed them¬ 
selves around the Rocky Mountains. They 
were reptiles, and most of their friends and 
foes were the same, even the birds being 
half reptiles. What eggs some of these rep¬ 
tiles must have laid, may be imagined 
when one female atlantosaurian is described 
as 100 feet long, with thigh bones measur¬ 
ing nine feet, and probably twenty-five 
feet high. 
Beebe’s Automatic Extractor. — Mr. 
Frank N. Beebe exhibited to tlie shooting 
club his invention for extracting auto¬ 
matically the shell from an auxiliary rifle 
barrel to breech-loading shot-guns, so they 
can he taken hold of with the fingers and 
extracted, instead of making it necessary to 
take them out with a sharp pointed instru¬ 
ment, as is done now, tlie way they are 
manufactured. The extractor'worked to 
the satisfaction of all, and with it very 
rapid firing could be done, in all proba¬ 
bility as fast as with any single breech¬ 
loading rifle made, and a sportsman’s out¬ 
fit would hardly be complete without one 
of these auxiliary rifle barrels with the at¬ 
tachment just invented by Air. Beebe. — 
Ohio State Journal, Aug. S3 d. 
The Duke of Sutherland, who is a 
thorough, practical engineer, drove the lo¬ 
comotive attached to the train which con¬ 
veyed tlie Prince and Princess of AY ales 
around the royal agricultural show. 
—According to the Rev. Mr. Scudder, a 
missionary in India, four men bought a 
quantity of cotton in copartnership. That 
the rats might not injure it they bought a 
cat, and agreed that each should own one 
of its legs. Each leg was then adorned 
with beads and other ornaments by its 
owner. The cat accidently injured one of 
its legs, and the owner wound a rag round 
it, soaked in oil. Tlie cat by chance set the 
rag on fire, and, being in great pain, rushed 
among the cotton bales, where, she had been 
accustomed to hunt rats. The cotton was 
totally burned. The tliree other partners 
brought sm’t against the owner Of the in¬ 
valid log to recover the value of their cot¬ 
ton, and the Judge decided that, as the in¬ 
jured leg could not be used, the cat carried 
the fire to the cotton with her three remain¬ 
ing legs. They only were culpable; and 
their owners were required to compensate 
the owner of the injured leg for bis share 
of loss. 
^UiisreUaneous ^flwrtisfmentu 
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Every garment and button is stamped “ Boston Shooting Suit, (l. AY. Simmons & 
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Tents, Army Blankets and Patent Decoys. 
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i. iuttrodge &Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; ILihl.Du- 
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B EAGLE PUPS FOR SALE.—One litter 
of eight, Fanny 5th; one litter of six from 
Beaut,-, second prize winner at Philadelphia 
Kennel Club, 1879. These pups are from Victor; 
he Is from imported stock from the kennel of 
Sir A. Ashbumham, England, now in stud at F. 
Elmore’s, Granby, Conn. These litters are six 
weeks and ten days old. If taken at two mouths 
old will ho sold low. They are nicely marked, 
white, black and tan, and blue mottled. Also, 
one Laverack setter, four years old; one Eng¬ 
lish Pointer, three years old. Both are well 
broken on all kinds oi game, and most expert 
retrievers from laud and water. Will be sold low 
to reduce kennel stock. Address GEO. FOU- 
NALL, Christianes, Lancaster Co., Penn. 
F OR SALE.—A handsome English setter 
pup, or will exchange for cocker spaniel; 
will give hood trade for a prize winner. THLO. 
MEY)3R,3- -- ” ' 
{, 318 Eighth st.. Jersey City, N. J. It 
F OR SALE.— Two Gordon setter bitcheB, 
flvo months old: very handsomely marked ; 
sired by Doan’s Tim. For particulars address 
GEORGE 8. THOMPSON, Box 1B3 Foxhoro'. 
Mass. AugS8-lt 
F OR SALE.—St. Bernard dog Conrad, 
15 months old, rough-coated, 27i Inches high, 
75 inobes long, intelligent, good-tempered and 
kind. Bred by L. Z. Collins from stock imported 
from Rev. J. C. Mncdonn's kennel. For particu¬ 
lars, address ANNA II. WHITNEY, Box 94, Lan¬ 
caster, Mass. 
For Sale or Exchange. 
I AVILL sell for very little money, or ex¬ 
change, a handsome orange and white Eng¬ 
lish setter brood bitch, 8J years old, The dam of 
some fine field dogs, and a bench show winner. 
Will be due in heat within thirty days. First 
class stoek and pedigree, W. H. PIERCE, 
A«g88-Jt PMkSkil), N. T, 
