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angler. Between the lines the reader finds a 

 splendid plea for fair play and a high standard 

 of sport. Half of the book is devoted to the 

 author's experiences in the Florida Keys and 

 the rest to the California, Texas and New- 

 England coasts. Published by Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass. 



Hitchcock's revised edition of "Every Man His 

 Own Lawyer; Everybody's Law Book " is adapt- 

 ed to every State in the Union. When published 

 some years ago "Every Man His Own Lawyer" 

 was sold to the number of hundreds of thousands. 

 The thousands who remember that book will 

 want the new one, and any one, for that matter, 

 will find the revised edition a valuable addition 

 to the library. Hitchcock Publishing Company, 

 New York. 



"Practical Rowing," by Arthur W. Stevens, 

 and "The Effects of Training," by Eugene A. 

 Darling, M. D., and published in one volume by 

 Little, Brown & Co., Boston, are an excellent 

 addition to the literature of aquatic sports. Mr. 

 Stevens takes up the definition of the terms used 

 in coaching, the way to handle and steer a shell, 

 the work of the men in an eight-oared crew as 

 individuals and later as a crew from the point 

 of view of the coach. A chapter devoted to 

 sculling will be found helpful to beginners. Dr. 

 Darling's contribution is an official study of two 

 Harvard University crews at close range and 

 includes observations of football training and 

 overtraining. Charts are given showing effects 

 of training on heart, temperature and weight, 

 with deductions and suggestions — altogether an 

 invaluable contribution to a subject of which 

 there is still far too little general understanding. 



"The Race of the Swift, " by Edwin Carlile 

 Litsey, is one of the few commendable nature 

 books telling the life histories of wild animals. 

 Mr. Litsey is a keen observer and he manages 

 to write forcefully without departing from 

 reasonable probability. Nor does he declare in 

 preface that his stories are true chronicles of the 

 lives of certain wild animals of his acquaintance. 

 Published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 

 Mass. 



"The Book of Boats" is a little volume by 

 Raymond Cavanagh in which the author dwells 

 at greatest length on the queer prototypes of 

 the modern small boat, and concludes with a 

 chapter on modern types. It should prove 

 interesting to those who, being boat lovers, 

 desire to know something of primitive methods 

 of building man-handled craft. Published by 

 Raymond Cavanagh, St. Paul, Minn. 



In "The Complete Golfer" Harry .Vardon, the 

 celebrated professional, in addition to a most 

 thorough course of instruction for playing the 

 game, gives a very entertaining history of his 

 experience as a golfer. The chapter on "The 

 Construction of Courses" should be of much 

 value to clubs in embryo, Mr. Vardon's wide 

 experience fitting him to write authoritatively 

 concerning this most important phase of starting 

 a golf club. There are some fifty handsome 

 illustrations from photographs and pen-and-ink 

 diagrams, which are invaluable as showing the 

 best methods of play. The rules of the game 

 are given in an appendix. Published by Mc- 

 Clure, Phillips & Co., New York. 



"Bob s:rd the Guides," by Mary Raymond 

 Shipman Andrews, might have been a better book 

 if "Bob" (who, by the way, is Paul Shipman 

 Andrews, and seemingly a youthful brother-in- 

 law of the author) had written it himself, 

 although too much cannot be said for the grace , 

 the spirit and the unvarying skill with which 

 the story is told. No woman can fully under- 

 stand a boy, and least of all one of those rugged 

 chaps, like "Bob," who take to the woods as 

 naturally as a young terrier takes to chasing cats. 

 Another fault of the book is that the narrative 

 is snatched away from the boy and handed over 

 to his big brother when the book is but half 

 finished, and there are chapters, among them 

 "Bill the Trapper," which was a magazine 

 short story once and concerns a city lad who 

 trapped his big sister's beau in a city park, that 

 seem to have been sneaked in to eke out a 350- 

 page book. "Bob" is manifestly more of a 

 success as a boy of the flesh than Mrs. Andrews 

 has been able to make of him in book form. 

 Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New 

 York. 



"A Self- Supporting Home, " by Kate V, Saint 

 Maur, will prove of value to city wives that are 

 turning to the country for a better lot in life. 

 It narrates the experiences, sometimes costly 

 but always interesting, of the author in estab- 

 lishing a self-supporting home near Chatham, 

 N. J., and takes the reader through the twelve 

 months of the year, making valuable suggestions 

 and giving rules for the care of pet stock, 

 poultry, bees, the family cow and the family 

 horse, and for raising vegetables. While it will 

 hardly be accepted as a text-book by the country 

 bred, there is perhaps no book published which 

 will be of equal value to those unlearned in the 

 ways of country life. Published by The Mac- 

 millan Company, New York. 



