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Nov. 29 



The St. Aitgiistine Y'\oht Club. —The extent 

 of John Bull's territory is proverbial ; doubtless 

 the intensely English Englishman may sail his 

 own yacht on loyal English waters in every clime 

 of the globe. Rather suggestive Is it, too, of the 

 extent of Brother Jonathan's yachting waters, 

 that, just now, while northern yachtsmen have 

 snugly housed their craft ere the rigging shall 

 become stiffened with ice and the decks whitened 

 with snow, their amateur brethren of the craft 

 in another part of the country are but preparing 

 for the season's sport. And what a delightful 

 harbor the St. Augustine Bay is for a regatta, 

 too, with the quaint old town, far stretching sea- 

 wall and Spanish fortress on the one side of the 

 course, and on the other the low- lying marsh, 

 white sand hills, and the breaking surf beyond. 

 And fully as unique in their way are the sports 

 that in the olden times used to fill up the pro- 

 gramme of the day. We wonder if they have de- 

 parted with the glory of other days ? The greased 

 pole with eager youngsters climbing up for the 

 ham or purse on its top; the chase and scramble 

 for the well greased pig ; the diminutive darkies 

 attempting to nose out pennies from a barrel of 

 flour ; and all those other contests equally dear 

 to the heart of the natives and of the stranger 

 within their gates. But these reflections of the 

 past must give place to the facts of the present. 

 Of the present success and workings of that en- 

 ergetic organisation, the St. AuguBtino Yacht 

 Club, with many of whose members we are per- 

 sonally acquainted, we learn from the St. Augus- 

 tine Press of a late date : 



Very notable and agreeable improvements have 

 been wrought in and about the building of the 

 St. Augustiue Yacht Club during the past few 

 weeks. The principal room of the interior has in 

 particular undergone quite an essential change, 

 having been enlarged by the carrying back of 

 partitions upon the Bhoreward side, and superb- 

 ly lined and panneled npou the inner faces 

 with selected samples of our native pine, whi^h, 

 as oiled and polished, give to the whole an ap- 

 pearance decidedly antique and baronial. A 

 substantial ^nmney, with broad fire place, has 

 been built up at centre of the room Upon the 

 north side, panneled around iu like manner 

 with the walla at large, while at front, above 

 the tilings of the hearth and jambs, appears a 

 mantel (also of native wood), which for har- 

 mony of proportion, and general artistic merit, 

 is a sample of workmanship to admire. Over- 

 head a light tint of pearly gray has been laid on, 

 with a dark shade for rafters- and braces, afford- 

 ing a pleasant effect. A fine tank of iron has 

 been provided for the side rooms for a supply of 

 water, and other accomodations needful and "de- 

 sirable. At the south or wharf side as you 

 enter, as also at the east and northern fronts 

 new-doors have been placed, double and glaced! 

 and with toplighta, giving fine lookouts and full 

 ventilation and air. In addition, a broader and 

 more ample window lets in at the southern aide a 

 flood of light for the benefit and convenience of 

 readers of the numerous papers and magazines 

 with which the club will be supplied during the 

 season . Without, and opened upon by the doors 

 at the north and east, a substantial piazza has 

 been established, supported from beneath by 

 pillars of the cabbage palin— impervious to borers 

 or other vermin of tbo sea— and capable of sus- 

 taining" all the company, both of ladies and gen- 

 tlemen, that may crowd npon it during regattas 

 or other displays or entei tainmeuts by the club. 

 Steps leading downward to the water "at the Bay- 

 front afford facilities for entoring or landing from 

 lesser craft of whatever sort. Altogether the 

 provision thus made for comfort or convenience 

 of members of the St. Augustine Yacht Club to- 

 gether with friend s or guests has been success- 

 fully as well as most tastef ullv carried out, ren- 

 dering the club building witlfita accessories still 

 further an ornament and acquisition to the city. 

 The Secretary of the club, Dr. J. H. Janeway, tj. 

 8. A., has exercised no little good taste and 

 judgment in the general direction of the 

 changes made, and certainly deserves well of the 

 organization for his pains and attention . Mr, 

 Kinzie has been chief carpenter m charge, dis- 

 playing, with his assistants, capacity and skill at 

 all points. Ingraham, colorist, stain er and var- 

 nisher, cannot ordinarily be surpassed by the best 

 of oity workmen from any quarter. That the 

 success of our yacht olub may be equal with its 

 efforts in all regards, to establish and maintain 

 itself among us, is the wish of all . 



— Ervison, of Williamsburgh, has just built for 

 W. L. Alden, of the N. Y. Ganoe Club, a canoe 

 of a new pattern which the owner believes to be 

 far better for cruising purposes then is any canoe 

 hitherto built. The Shadow combines all the best 

 features of the Nautilus, Rob Roy and Rice Lake 

 models, with none of their faults. It is fifteen 

 feet in length, twenty-eight inches beam, and 

 weighs sixty pounds ; and will draw when fully 

 loaded not" more than three inches. The keel 

 and bunks are oak, the planks are white cedar 

 and the deck Spanish cedar. Mr. Alden is well 

 enough known as the writer of the cleverest ar- 

 ticles in American journalism, but what the 

 public are not as well acquainted with is that 

 the American "Sixth Column Man" of the New 

 X ork Timet is a distinguished canoeist, 



4lffv §nbUmfrana. 



MAGAZINES. 



Perhaps the most noteworthy contribution to 

 the December monthlies is Longfellow's poem, 

 "Keranios," in Harper's. The subject is one 

 which affords abundant scope for the fancy and 

 imagination, and the poet has given us a poem 

 of which the burden is the idea of change. The 

 turning and moulding of the clay in the potter's 

 hand is typical of the ever changing fashion and 

 thought of the race : 



Turn, turn my wheel 1 All things must change 



To something new, to something strange : 

 Nothing (hat is can pause or stay: 



The moon wilt wax, the ruoou will wane, 



The mist and cloud will turn to rain, 



The rain to mist and cloud again, 

 To-morrow be to-day. 



The illustrations, which are by Abbey and Fred- 

 ericks, add to the text instead of detracting from 

 it, as is too often the case. The magazine opens 

 with Milton's grand "Hymn on the Nativity,'' 

 illustrated by Fredericks. As a Christmas poem 

 nothing could worthily compete with it. Other 

 illustrated papers are, "Elizabethan and Later 

 English Furniture," a study by Mrs, Harriet 

 Prescott Spofford of the Decorative Art in Eng- 

 land Since the Ronassance; "The Metropolitan 

 Newspaper," by Mr. William H. RKleing, a writer 

 who not only selects good subjects, but treats of 

 them in an effective way. The paper is illustrat- 

 ed with twenty-seven illustrations, including 

 views of the principal newspaper offiaea and 

 prominent New York editors. Mr. M. D. Con- 

 way contributes a description of a recent visit to 

 Jamrach's, the famous London animal depot. It 

 will be remembered that Mr. Jamrach's estab- 

 lishment was some time ago described in Fosest 

 and Stheam. This number is especially rich in 

 fiction. Among others, Miss Thackeray begins a 

 new story, "Da Capo ;" E. E. Hale concludes his 

 Btory, "Back to Back;" Rebeooa Harding Davis 

 has a short tale, " The Man in the Cage.'' 



In Sci'ibner's, R. H. Stoddard contributes a 

 valuable paper to the study of English literature 

 in a paper on Keats. The paper is partly bio- 

 graphical and partly analytic of the poet's genius, 

 and the writer assigns the poet to a very high 

 rank. Mr. Stoddard's thorough study of his 

 subject and his eminent qualifications for his 

 task, have conspired to make the present paper 

 worthy the careful attention of every student of 

 the English poets. Col. Waring's spirited arti- 

 cle on "The Thoroughbred Horse" contains 

 many valuable suggestions about training for the 

 turf and riding to hounds, and a picturesque des- 

 cription of .an English fox-hunt. Among the illus- 

 trations are several reproductions of Leech's fa- 

 mous cartoons in Punch. Speaking of the re- 

 lation of the American farmer and the fox-hun- 

 ter, Mr. Waring says : 



The question that arises iu this country, when 

 the introduction of fox-hunting is suggested is 

 that of the opposition of the farmers. The 

 sport involves the protection of foxes, resulting 

 in a certain amount of damage to poultry, aud 

 more or less injury to fences aud crops"; but 

 these objections could probablybe removed by 

 some proper Bystem of compensation. What is 

 here more serious would probably be the ques- 

 tion of trespass ; and certainly, aB farmers are 

 their own landlords and are subject to no restric- 

 tions, such as are imposed in the almost univer- 

 sally prevalent leases of England, it would, of 

 course, be in the power of any farmer, or other 

 land-owner, to forbid entering upon his land. 

 One or two objectors in a neighborhood would 

 suffice tp make anything like satisfactory work 

 impossible. This could be overcome, if at all. 

 only by establishing Buch relations between the 

 hunter and tho farmer as exist almost every- 

 where in England. There, farmers themselves 

 enter very eagerly into the Bport, and enough of 

 them ride regularly to establish a public senti- 

 ment in its favor, and to drown any objection 

 that might aiise in their own class. When dam- 

 age is done to poultry or to fenees or to crops, 

 compensation is always given by the master, bnt 

 it if considered not at all the thing to aBk dam- 

 ages unless the injury has been quite serious. 

 After all, the account is found to be very largely 

 in favor of the farmer, even though be 1b sub- 

 jected to some Iobb from the causes referred to 

 above. Fox-hunting invariably brings iuto the 

 country a very large number of horses, creating 

 a demand for forage on which the extra profit 

 over the price it would bring in a distant mar- 

 ket is very far beyond the damage done. In 

 Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, where 

 fox-hunting is still kept up, no serious difficulty 

 has ariBen, largely for the reason that the whole, 

 or nearly the whole, of the hunt is made up from 

 the ranks of the farmers themselves. 



" The Wooden Age " is a description, by Chas. 

 D. Robinson, Esq., of the lumber tr&de of the 

 United States. The life of the lumberman, with 

 all the exciting and novel features of his life, are 

 excellently portrayed. The paper also contains 

 Borne statistics worthy of attention among those 

 who see in the not far-off future the destruction 

 of our great forests. The total luugjer products 

 of the country Mr. Robinson estimates at the 

 almost incredible amount of 10,000,000,000 

 "American Oyster Culture" is the title of an- 

 other paper in which another American industry 

 — the culture of the succulent bivalve — is treated 

 in an appreciative spirit by James Richardson. 

 Besides the statistics, which are not obtrusively 

 prominent, there are excellent descriptions of the 



whole system of oyster planting and gathering, 

 with much valuable and entertaining information 

 about the life of that selfish shellfish. Another 

 contribution to natural history is the paper of 

 Mrs. Herrick on "Ants," which, as usual with 

 her essays, is accompanied with excellent illus- 

 trations from her own pencil. Lieut. E. W. 

 Sturdy, of the TJ. S. Naval Observatory, has a 

 scientific paper on "Mars and his Moons." The 

 travel sketch this month is from the pen of Hen- 

 ry Eckford, who tells us of a journey " From the 

 Atlantic to the Andes." In the department of 

 fiction the serials are continued. By a curious 

 coincidence, the reader is enabled to compare the 

 picture of early Indiana life, as given by Mr. 

 Eggleston in "Roxy,"with the reality, as des. 

 cribed by Robert Dale Owen in his interesting 

 reminiscences of public and private life in the 

 same part of the State. There are other sketches 

 and stories and several poems, among which we 

 may call attention to "Hesperus" in whioh Mr. 

 Charles De Roy gives a new treatment of the 

 theme of immortality. 



With this issue the Galaxy completes its twen- 

 ty-fourth volume and the twelfth year of its ex- 

 istence. It started to be the foremost literary 

 magazine in the country. Entirely discarding 

 mere pictorial attractions and strictly local con. 

 nections, its aim has been to present each month 

 the choicest possible literary bill of fare to its 

 readers. It has aimed to be thoroughly up to 

 the times in the choice of subjects which it has 

 discussed, and most of the live questions of the 

 day are ably treated in its pages. Its liberal 

 policy aud high literary tone have drawn to it 

 contributions from some of the ablest of our 

 statesmen. Many of these contributions are of 

 the greatest importance, aud give an inside view 

 of our current history which could not otherwise 

 be obtained. Secretary Welles has given its 

 readers an inside view of our naval operations 

 during tho rebellion, and in bis series of papers 

 on Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward, has given many 

 exceedingly interesting revelations as to the po- 

 sition, views and acta of Mr. Lincoln and the 

 leading members of his Cabinet on the great 

 questions which engaged their attention. 



The opening paper this month is by Robert P. 

 Porter, who seeks to give "The Truth About the 

 Strike;" Gideon Welles continues his papers on 

 the "Administration of Abraham Lincoln;'' 

 "The Florentine Arithmetician " is a Shakespe- 

 rian study, by Richard Grant White. "The 

 Youth of Charles Sumner" forms a subject for 

 Lucy C. White. There are a number of histori- 

 cal, biographical aud literary papers, poems and 

 stories, book reviews and scientific notes, which 

 combine to make this a bright and valuable num- 

 ber. 



Lippincotl's for December opens with an inter- 

 esting and richly illustrated article on Sicily, by 

 Alfred T. Bacon. "Captured by Cossacks," is 

 the title of another illustrated paper, detailing 

 the adventures of a French officer who served 

 under Davoust iu 1813. The new serial, "For 

 Perciyal," also illustrated, continues to form one 

 of the most attractive features of the magazine. 



An article which cannot fail to attract much at- 

 tention and excite a lively interest, is one contain- 

 ing the reminiscences of a venerable lady ("M. 

 T.'O belonging to the highest circles of Washing- 

 ton society, who was the guest of Madison, an 

 inmate of the White Houbb during the presidency 

 of Jackson, aud an intimate friend of Washing- 

 ton Irving, John P. Kennedy and other celebri- 

 ties. The paper, whioh is fall of lively descrip- 

 tions and amusing anecdotes, is entitled "Days 

 of My Youth." 



T. S. Perry, the well-known Boston critic, dis- 

 cusses Ouida's novels, and explains the causes of 

 their immense popularity, despite their glaring 

 faults and the censures of reviewers. William 

 OwenB writes entertainingly on the "Folk-Lore 

 of the Southern Negroes," and Olive Logan gives 

 an account of "English Domestics and their 

 Ways." There is a story of French International- 

 ism, "A Portrait," byltaAniol Prokop. Mrs. R. H. 

 Davis' powerful novelette, and Will Wallace Har- 

 ney's tale of Southern manners, "A Kentucky 

 Duel," are both concluded. Among the poems, 

 "Selim," by Annie Porter, deserves notice; and 

 the "Gossip," besides much other lively and 

 agreeable reading, has a description of the de- 

 parture of the Imperial Guards by a Moscow cor- 

 respondent. 



This number concludes the twentieth volume 

 and the tenth year of the issue of this magazine. 



Appleton's is rich in notes of travel. The 

 opening pages are devotad to an illustrated arti- 

 cle descriptive of a trip to " The Head Waters of 

 the Rhine," S. G. W. Benjamin writes of "A 

 Trip to the Bermudas," those isles of tho sum- 

 mer sea, "where people do not die, but dry up 

 with old age and blow away;" and Chas. H. 

 Woodman has a Bketch of "New Egypt," or the 

 Egypt of to-day. The stories are, as ever, good 

 and for the nlost part told by approved story tel- 

 lers. They are i "A Night in the mountains," 

 by Rebecca Harding DaviB; " Mountain Harry, a 



Character Sketch," by Ernest Ingersoll; "The - 

 Master of Rushen," by Amelia E. Barr :" rt His 

 Western Catharine," by Ella Rodman Church 

 and the serials, " By Celia's Arbor," and "Cherry 

 Ripe." The Editor's Table deals with a variety 

 of timely topics, and the reviews of books of the 

 day complete the number. 



In the Popular Science Monthly, Prof. R. H. 

 Thurston continues his essay on "The Growth of 

 the steam engine," treating in the present paper 

 of the period of development- "Star or Star 

 Mist," by Professor Proctor, is reprinted from 

 the English Mechanic ; and there is a second in- 

 stallment of Prof. Elias Scheider's paper on 

 "The Tides." "Modern Superstitions" is au 

 interesting paper on a fascinating subject. 

 "Language and the English Civil Service " is dis- 

 cussed by Prof. Alexander Bain. The most im- 

 portant article in the magazine is the lecture on 

 "Evolution; Its Origin, Progress and Conse- 

 sequences," recently delivered by Prof. John W. 

 Draper before a minister's institute at Spring- 

 field. Mass. 



{To be Continued.) 



Fox Hunting Gobstj?.— The London corres- 

 pondent of the New York Times writes enter- 

 tainingly of the chase as indulged in by English- 

 men, high and low: 



Touching " the chase," I am reminded that the 

 hunting season in England is now occupying tbo 

 attention of that class of sportsmen who have 

 been sung and glorified in many a hunting song, 

 and whose adventures have been celebrated by 

 many a novelist past and presen t but by none more 

 truthfully than Lover, Whyte Melville. Trohope, 

 and Hawley Smart. The love of the chase in 

 England has come down to us from the very 

 earliest days. The Norman Kings of England, 

 old writers tell us, carried their passion for it to 

 such an excess at one period of our history aa 

 to involve every civil right iu general ruin; 

 though there was not half as much hunting in 

 the eleventh century as there is to-day, in spite 

 of the vast decrease of open spaces, the cutting 

 down of forests, and the efearauce and cultiva- 

 tion of waste lands. In England and Wales at 

 tho present time there are not less than 150 

 separate hunts. In one-fourth of the districts 

 the "meets " are four times a week, and iu some 

 cases the master of the hunt turns out a pack 

 every five days in the week. The hardest rideis 

 in England are the followers of the Pvtchley 

 hounds, the Duke of Beaufort's hounds, the 

 Belvoir and the Cheshire packs, and the Lin- 

 colnshire ; though there are many other hunts 

 almost as famous, including the Worcestershire, 

 after which the Duke d'Aumale used to ride two 

 or three days a week at this season of the year. 

 South of the Tweed the fox is hunted in this 

 little i3land 500 times a week from Oclober till 

 March. Setting aside the work of our various 

 packs of harriers and stag-hounds, it is hardly 

 possible that tho Norman barons did as much 

 bird riding as all these " meets ' represent. At 

 least 15,000 foxes are killed every season, a pret- 

 ty big crowd of wild animals in a country so 

 small that Americans may well wonder, with our 

 railway spe^d, that we don't run off it. A re- 

 liable authority assures me :hat hunting is more 

 general and systematic iu England than it was 

 twenty-five years ago, aud that England of the 

 eighteenth century could not for a moment 

 . show sport by the side of the present genera- 

 tion ot hunters and shooters. A century and a 

 half has not elapsed since dogB were trained to 

 hunt foxes only— a fact which I don't think haB 

 been used by Darwin in his beautiiul illustra- 

 tions of the perpetuation of acquired habits in 

 animate. When Squire Western rode out with 

 Tom Jones after a hare. Fielding had never 

 seen 400 horsemen following a pack of houuds. 

 At the present day 100 pacKs at least are turned 

 out in the English counties every week to hunt 

 the stag, the fox, aud tho hare, followed by an 

 army of atout 10.000 Bplendidly-mounted riders, 

 as keenly interested in the chase as the dogs 

 themselves. Englishmen are not more earnest 

 in war than they are in the chase. Hard as 

 "the Iron Duke" was, he had a pack of hounds 

 with him and hunttd his enemy's country 

 during the Continental wars. Four hundred 

 years before Wellington, Edward III., of Eng- 

 land, had sixty couples of stag-hounds and a\ 

 many harriers with him during bis brilliant cam- 

 paign in France. The music of the hounds in 

 chaBe was delightful to the ears of Homer. The 

 late Lord Derby translated the "Iliad" and 

 gloried in a lively run. Among literatures of 

 the present day. Trollope stillfollows the hounds. 

 Leech, who diew such admirable hunting cariot- 

 tures in Punch, made his sketches from real life, 

 Kingsley followed the hounds. Whyte Melville 

 delights in the chase. Fielding, the "most realis- 

 tic writer of the eighteenth century, huntedreg-s- 

 larly. Palmerston, the judicious Minister, en- 

 joyed the sport. 



—On the 17th of this month in London, Wil- 

 liam Gale completed the terrible task of walk- 

 ing 4,000 quarter miles in 4,000 consecutive 

 periods of ten minutes eaoh. Ibis idiot has 

 then walked for 27 days, 18 hours and 33 miu- 

 ntes. The Lancet oalls such efforts "Suicide by 

 Pedestrainism." In reference to Gale's last per- 

 formance the Lancet says : '' There are several 

 ways of attempting suicide. The undertaking, 

 alike absurd and peculiar, now being carried 

 out at the Agricultural Ball by Gale, is one of 

 them, and cannot be too soon or too sirongly de- 

 nounced. It is not pedestrianism so much as in- 

 terference with the demahd for sleep, which is 

 just as imperative as the demand for food. If a 

 man deliberately set himself to abstain from feed 

 for six weeks, the law would soon let him know 

 that he ia not to do so. Why should the law act 

 differently when a man shows his insanity by 

 perilously abstaining from rest ? Such feats are 

 not entitled to be regarded with any respect. 

 We should be glad to hear that Mr. Cross had 

 given notice to all concerned that, in tho event 

 of any serious results, they would be held re- 

 sponsible. It is with great regret we find a 

 member of the medical profession according the 

 sanction of his presence and support to the pro- 

 ceedings, 



