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New Craft.— The builders are designing and 

 constructing quite a number of new yachts for 

 the coming season, among which we hear of a 

 schooner-yacht about the size of the Comet, 

 which Mr. Sam Pine is to build for Mr. Pierre 

 Lorillard. Mr. Pierce, of the Atlantic Club, has 

 contracted with Mr. Gorman, of Brooklyn, for a 

 centre-board sloop-yacht, forty-six feet long. 

 Mr. Gorman is also to build a sloop-yacht, forty- 

 eight feet long, for Mr. John Dimon, of the 

 Brooklyn Yacht Club, who has just sold his sloop, 

 the Wave, which Mr. Gorman built for him last 

 year. Mr. Fred May and his brother, of the 

 Seawanhakas, have a sloop-yacht 31 feet long, 11 

 feet beam and 3 feet 10 inoheB deep, built by Mr. 

 John Munn, of Brooklyn, from a model by Mr. 

 A. Carey Smith. The same builder has also 

 nearly ready for launching a centre-board sloop- 

 yacht for Mr. James Smith. She is 33 feet long, 

 13 feet beam and 3 feet 7 inches deep. Mr. 

 Munn has built since the close of the last season 

 three cabin yachts, 29, 26 and 23 feet long re- 

 spectively, and three open racing yachts, 20, 18 

 and 16 feet long respectively. All these six he 

 haB on hand ready for purchaser at the opening 

 of the season. Mr. Bhodes, of Brooklyn, has 

 nearly completed a 28-feet racing yacht, which he 

 has built for a member of the Atlantic Yacht 

 Club. Mr. Jacob Schmidt, the builder of the 

 Pluck and Luck, Dare Devil, etc., is building a 

 catamaran. As he has sailed frequently in the 

 John Gilpin, Ms proposed boat may be expected 

 to embody all the advantages of the Herreschoff 

 model with any improvement which may suggest 

 itself to a builder like Mr. Schmidt. Mr. J. 

 Lennox, Brooklyn, is building for Mr. J. Buchan- 

 an Henry, of Staten Island, a centre-board yacht. 

 Her dimensions are 37 feet long, 14 feet beam 

 and 5 feet deep. She will be cat-rigged, but the 

 main boom will not come to the taffrail, and 

 abaft it she will carry a jigger. Mr. William 

 Watte, of the Williamsburg Yacht Club, has 

 nearly complete, at Greenpoint, a centre-board 

 sloop-yacht i2 feet long, 17 feet 6 inches beam 

 and £ feet C inches deep. Mr. Richard Wallin, 

 at the foot of Court street, has completed a rac- 

 ing yacht for ex-Commodore Noble, of the Co- 

 umbia Yacht Club . 



The DAtraTLESS Sold.— James Gordon Bennett 

 has sold his famous sohooner-yacht Dauntless to 

 a member of the New York Yacht Club, for 

 $15,000. 



—The steam-yacht which is building for Mr. 

 Dion Boucicault is to be of iron, and is being 

 constructed at Chester, Pa. 



—Mr. J. Buchanan Henry's new yacht will be 

 called the Cruiser. Jt will fly the pennant of the 

 New York Yacht Club. She is thirty-five feet 

 over all. 



—Mr. O. Iselin has sold his racing yacht Dare 

 Devil to Mr. Dillworth, of Hoboken, and she 

 will be enrolled in the New Jersey Yacht Club. 



—Mr. John Dimon, of the Brooklyn Club, has 

 sold his sloop-yacht Wave to Mr. E. B. Underbill 

 of the same club. 



struction of yachts. The first of the serieB 

 was given at Delmonioo's last Saturday even- 

 ing, and was upon the sheer, half-breadth and 

 body plans of a yacht. The speaker illustrated 

 his lecture with capital black-board drawings. 

 The next lecture, Jan. 26, will be upon the cal- 

 culations involved in yacht-designing, tonnage, 

 draught, etc. 



TormiST.— The steam-yacht Tourist, owned by 

 Commodore Charles A. Cheesborough, of New 

 York, Capt. J. S. Simmons in command, arrived 

 at Wilmington, N. C. , on the 12th inst., en route 

 for Jacksonville, Florida. 



National Association of Amateur Oaesmen.— 

 At the annual meeting of this Association, held 

 in this city last Saturday evening, Alexander 

 Krumbhaar, of the Philadelphia Barge Club, of 

 Philadelphia, Pa., was elected chairman. There 

 were present the following named gentlemen : 

 O. M. Remington, Narragans'ett Boat Club, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. ; Robert L. Reade, Nassau Boat Club, 

 New York ; H. E. Buermeyer, Athletic Club, New 

 York ; H.W. Garfield, Mutual Boat Club, Albany. 

 N. Y; T. W, Kennedy, Passaic Boat Club, New- 

 ark, N. J. The next regatta will be held next 

 August at Newark, on the Passaic River, the 

 Newark citizens to place $500 in the hands of the 

 executive Committee, as a guarantee, before the 

 second Saturday in June, the next regular meet- 

 ing of the Association. There was a lively discus- 

 sion upon ihe attempt to disqualify the Dauntless 

 and Columbia College crews for rowing last Octo- 

 ber against theArgonautas. The lattercontained 

 a professional, Mr. Ed. Smith, and a rule of the 

 Association is that any man rowing in a contest 

 where there is a professional shall be from that 

 time excluded from the Association. No club 

 has made any application for the dismissal in 

 this case, and nothing was done. The Atalantas 

 sent in their resignation, and it was accepted. 

 Messrs. Reade and Buermeyer were appointed to 

 draw up a definition of "junior sculler." 



Eccentric— East Newark, N. J., has a new 

 boat club called the Eccentric : Pres., Whitefield 

 Stull ; Vice-Pres., Sidney Astley ; Sec, E. E 

 Smith: Treas., Frank Hedden; Capt. John Evans- 

 Lieut., George Meclure : Log Keeper, John P.' 

 Mead. 



Detroit Boat Club.— This club has now a 

 total membership of 281. The log shows a 

 total of 625 miles rowed in 191 trips. Officers 

 for the ensuing year : Pres't., Henry Russell.; 

 Vice-Pres't., Addison Moffat; Sec, C. L. An- 

 drews ; Treas., H. M. Campbell ; Capt., John 

 M. Hinchman. 



The English Championship.— The rowing- 

 match for £200 a side and the Newcastle Chroni- 

 cle championship of England Challenge Cup be- 

 tween John Higgins, of Shadwell, and Robert 

 Boyd, of Gateshead, on the River Tyne, from 

 High Level Bridge to Scotswood Suspension 

 Bridge, Jan. 14th, was won by Higgins on afoul. 



&ftv §ublimtions. 



Bonaparte. The illustrative notes and life of 

 Wilson by Sir James W. Jardine. 8 vols. Mua- 

 trated in colors. New York : J. W. Bouton, 706 

 Broadway. 1877. 



Brooklyn Yacht Club.— At the regular meet- 

 ing of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, Jan. 9, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: Commodore, J. Lester Wallack, of the 

 schooner-yacht Columbia ; Yice-Commodore 

 Charles B. Hall, of the schooner-yacht Mystic ■ 

 Rear- Commodore, John B. Norris, of the sloop- 

 jacht Sadie ; President, Charles W. Blossom • 

 Secretary and Treasurer, William T. Lee • Asst - 

 Secretary, George G. Dunning ; Measurer, John 

 W. Sawyer ; Fleet-Surgeon, Samuel Hall, M. D • 

 Judge-Advocate, Henry C. Place; Trustees' 

 Samuel MeElroy, D. S. Hines, W. R. Wadsworth 

 and Geo. R. Randolph ; Committee on Member- 

 ship, S. L. Blood, W. R. Ringwood and F W 

 JenkinB; Regetia Committee, H. W. Turner' 

 Henry Hentz and R. J. Cortis. 



Quaker City Yacht Club.— This club, of 

 Philadelphia, has elected the following officers 

 for the ensuing year: Com., A. F. Bancroft, of 

 the yacht Lillie ; Vice-Corn., L. Coleman, of the 

 yaoht S. Josephs; Rear-Corn., Paul Klotz, of the 

 yacht White Wing of Chester, Pa.; Pres't N 

 B. Boyd; Sec, Chas. S. Salin ; Asst.-Sec. J. J. 

 Baughman; Treas., Robt. Baird; Meas. Capt 

 Jno. C. Vanderslice; Regatta Com"., Chas. S.' 

 Austin, Jno. S. Pomeroy and Jno. M. Seigel. 



Lectures on Naval Architecture.— Mr. A. 

 Carey Smith, the well known yaoht builder ia 

 delivering a course bf leotures before the Sea- 

 wanhaka Yacht Club, on the modelling and oon- 



Boating at Harvard.— For the University 

 crew of 1878 twelye men are now in training. 

 Of these six were in last year's crew, namely : 

 Bancroft, Captain, '78, Cambridge ; Smith, '79, 

 Worcester ; Schwartz, '79, Bangor, Me.; Crocker, 

 '79, Fitchburg; Brigham, '80, Salem; Littauer, 

 '78, New York city ; Allen, the last year's cox- 

 swain, is to be coxswain foe the coming race. 

 The new men are Stowe, '80, San Francisco ; 

 Parker, '78, Lancaster ; Trimble, '80, New York 

 city ; Taussig, '79, St. Louis. From these Mr. 

 Bancroft feels he can select a capital crew. The 

 weight of the candidates averages about 187 

 pounds. Their average age is 20 years, which 

 is about the age of the average Harvard crew. 

 In their race with Yale the crew will use a 

 paper boat of the same length and build as 

 that of last year. Harvard is also so well satis- 

 fied with the present system of eight-oared crews 

 that she will probably not return to the six- 

 oared system. The interest in boating is not 

 nearly so strong as it was a few years ago. 

 The 1,400 students connected with the Universi- 

 ty furnish only twelve candidates for places on 

 the crew, and the enthusiasm of the club crews 

 is in a sad state of decline. Then- prospects, 

 however, in the coming race are as encourag- 

 ing aa ever they were, and under the ener- 

 getio and efficient control of Capt. Bancroft we 

 shall expect a good record from the Crimson next 

 summer. 



Oxford's Challenge to Columbia.— Oxford 

 University has challenged the Columbia College 

 four to row a race from Putney to Mortlake 

 for the college championship of the world. If the 

 Columbia crew defeats Oxford a second race 

 with Cambridge is proposed. The Columbia 

 boys very sensibly disclaim representing any- 

 thing more than their own college in this -con- 

 test, and while expressing their willingness to 

 let all America and all American colleges par- 

 ticipate in her victory if she wins, they do 

 not wish to involve any other oarsmen in their 

 defeat. 



Atalantas.— At the thirty-first annual meet- 

 ing of the Atalanta Boat Club, of New York— 

 the oldest rowing club in American waters— 

 the following officers were elected for 1878 : 

 Prea., George B. Dean, Jr.; First Vice-Pres., 

 Frederick H. Clark ; Second Vice-Pres., Edward 

 C. Ripley; Sec, John E. Eustis; Treas., Henry 

 S. Sproull; Financial Sec, J. H. Kent; Board 

 of Trustees, ex-Pres. Ransom Parker, Jr., John 

 King, Seth H. Noyes, A. Byron Cross, Charles 

 Devoe; Lieutenant, George W. Young; Log- 

 keeper, P. Brennan. 



Tritons.— The officers of the Triton Boat Club, 

 of Newark, N. J., for the ensuing vear are • Pres 

 A. W. Oonklin (Mr. L. E. Saunier" declining a re- 

 election) ; Vice-Pres., J. W. Morrell ; Sec, Caleb 

 Crockett ; Treas., Frederick H. Bhipman : Capt. 

 Frank Phillips ; Lieut., Frank M. Peters : Log 

 Keeper, Charles B. Campbell. MeBsrs. H. C 

 Rommel, C. S. Glaze, J. C. Littell and J. W. Van 

 Ness, were chosen trustees. • 



Eurekas.— The Eureka Boat Club, of Newark, 

 S. J., has elected the following officers for the 

 ensuing year : Com., John Young ; PreB., George 

 Clark ; Vice-Pres., Watson Ryno ; Sec. Mannins 

 Force ; Treas., John P. Contrell ; Capt., Peter 

 loung j Lieut., Fred Fisher ; Log Keeper, Adam 



—The annual meeting of the New York Yacht 

 Club will be held Feb. 7th. 



Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the 

 United States: by A. Pope, Jr. Published 

 by Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York, 1878. 

 As publishers of one of the leading magazines 

 in the United States, Messrs. Scribner, Arm- 

 strong & Co. have in a measure revolutionized 

 American illustrative art. In Upland Game 

 Birds and Water Fowl, theBe enterprising pub- 

 lishers have shown their capabilities of carrying 

 out successfully a new branch of art. Familiar 

 as we should be with ornithological books, of 

 which Andubon is the most remarkable in a pic- 

 torial sense, the publication now under review 

 certainly forms an era in illustrative natural his- 

 tory. Mr. Pope's work may be described as ex- 

 actly that happy conception of artist and sports- 

 man combined, where the form, contour and 

 general color of the' bird is caught. We may re- 

 mark just here that the naturalist pave el simple, 

 does not often possess the true artistic feeling. 

 If it is a fish he draws or paints he necessarily 

 proceeds in a quasi Chinese manner. He depicts 

 every spine, every scale. If it be a bird he wishes 

 to portray, each wing feather must find its place, 

 and he is inclined to insist on the distinctions of 

 plumules, serniplumw or filoplumce. In his anx- 

 iety for absolute scientific accuracy, artistic 

 effects and finish are sacrificed. That admirable 

 collection of forms of plaster fish, with then- 

 exact colorings, due to the labors of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, are rigorously correot. An 

 iclhyologist would delight in Buoh an assemblage 

 of fish, but the artist- would find but little pleas- 

 ure in thorn. The aesthetic principle is what is 

 wanting. A carefully modeled wax figure recalls 

 the man, but a statue or picture embellishes, 

 through the taste or genius of the artist, the 

 human form. Mr. Pope is an artist in water 

 colors, of marked merit, who has given careful 

 study to the buds he paints, and Messrs Scrib- 

 ner, Armstrong & Co. have taken hia sketches 

 aud reproduced them in colors. Each illustra- 

 tion is mounted on card-board some 22x28 inches. 

 There are two such pictures in each number, 

 and the letter press is printed on heavy paper 

 the descriptions being compiled from Wilson's 

 American ornithology, Audubon's Birds of Ameri- 

 ca, Baird, Coues and all well-known authorities. 

 The two pictures in the present number show 

 the American Snipe and the Green Winged Teal. 

 As much care has been taken with the birds as 

 with then- surroundings. In the snipe the round 

 pretty head, the lustrous eyes of the Gallinago 

 wilsoni are carefully hit off. Effects of plu- 

 mage are wonderfully truthful. In the illuatration 

 of the teal one bird is down and hit hard, while 

 the mate bird, with affrighted wing, shoots off 

 like a bullet through the sedge and underbush 

 which fringes the water side. We can hardly 

 fancy more agreeable pictures for the sportsman 

 or naturalist than to take these illustrations and 

 to place them either in a portfolio for reference, 

 or having them framed to ornament his walls 

 with them. As to what is called " registering " 

 in color printing these pictures are absolutely 

 perfect, and those not familiar with this art will 

 wonder how by mechanical means such exact 

 copies of the painter's skill can be produced. 

 Upland Game Birds is to be published in ten 

 parts, five of which are now announced, and 

 will be sold by Bubsoription, and then only for 

 the entire series. 



The American Naturalist.— The recent change 

 in the ownership of this journal has developed, 

 as might have been expected, no little dissatis- 

 faction among leading naturalists, who seem to 

 think that its usefulness is thereby greatly di- 

 minished. Heretofore many of our best known 

 workers in science have contributed to its pages, 

 and it was regarded as an impartial medium for 

 communication with the public ; but the feeling 

 against the change is bo strong that it is result- 

 ing in the gradual withdrawal of those who have 

 hitherto been its most influential supporters. 



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