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Trinity, Columbia, Princeton, Williams, Cornell, Wes¬ 
leyan, and Dartmouth. Of these the first three have al¬ 
ready engaged training quarters. 
The Saratoga Rowing Association regatta will take 
place August 24, 25, andl26, at Saratoga Lake. It will call 
together representatives from nearly all the amateur and 
professional organizations in the United States. 
The Schuylkill Navy regatta will take place at Philadel¬ 
phia some time in June, and will he open to all clubs in 
the United States and Canada. The Harlem Regatta As¬ 
sociation races will take place on the Harlem River early 
in July. The National Amateur regatta will be open to all 
amateur oarsmen in the United States, and will take place 
at Troy in August. Regattas will also be held on the 
Charles and Mystic Rivers, and Jamaica Pond, June 17, 
and on Charles River July 4. 
Cornell University, 1 
Ithaca, N. Y., March 30, 1874. f 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The crews are in training now in the gymnasium, as far as rowing- 
weights can give training, preparatory to the spring regatta, which will 
probably take place in June. The crew for the Inter-Collegiate regatta 
is not as yet definitely selected, it being lef^till practice in the shell will 
enable a better decision to be made. A paper pair and six-oared shell 
have been ordered of Messrs. Waters & Sons for the use of the “Mary,” 
and we shall now be able to test carefully and thoroughly the two kinds of 
boats—wood vs. paper—and find out which is best adapted to our use. 
J. 
—We are requested by the Saratoga Rowing Association 
to print the following card: 
SARATOGA ROWING ASSOCIATION. 
It is necessary for the Saratoga Rowing Association to have the ad¬ 
dress of every amateur rowing club of good standing in the United 
States and Canada. The Association propose to issue soon its circulars 
concerning its annual regatta, which will be given some time in August. 
Therefore it is to be hoped that all rowing clubs will send their address, 
giving name of President and Secretary, so that none may be over¬ 
looked, nor fail to receive circulars. Address 
SARATOGA ROWING ASSOCIATION, 
Intioml §£u$times. 
The match between A. Gamier and Maurice Daly will 
take place at Tammany Hall on April 3d for $1,000 a side, 
600 points up. 
—Joe Dion is practising with Maurice Daly for his match 
for the championship every evening at the Spingler House 
billiard rooms. 
—There is some talk of having a tournament in Phila¬ 
delphia, as a party is negotiating with four of our leading 
professionals to give exhibitions in that city, and that there 
will be another tournament held in this city some time this 
month. 
—Dean Brothers’ Hall in Fulton avonue was the scene 
of some good billiards on the 26th March, Thursday. 
The occasion was a match game between Mr. Daniel 
Dean, well known in Brooklyn as an old billiard host, and 
Mr. John T. Reeves, of New York. Also a game between 
the Chicago expert, Mr. Bassinger, and Mr. Reeves. Both 
of the games played were the four ball carom, the first 
game 1,000 points up, the second 500 points up. Mr. 
Reeves was the winner of both, beating Mr. Dean readily, 
who appeared sadly out of practice, as his score of but 484 
points in the 1,000 will show. The second game Mr. Reeves 
won by a score of 501 to 435, although he won it out of the 
sheer good nature of Mr. Bassinger, whose manipulation 
of the ivories showed a latent skill which could have done 
far better than the result proved. 
The following is the score of the last game:— 
Reeves—0, 30, 15, 42, 15, 63, 3, 15, 15, 54, 153, 9, 3, 12, 
87; total, 501; winner’s average, 35 11-14. 
Bassinger— 6 , 81, 36, 33, 12, 12, 204, 9, 6 , 12, 6 , 18, 0; to¬ 
tal, 435; average, 43 6-13. 
—The Brooklyn Chess Club’s spring tourney was com¬ 
menced on March 21st, and the result of the first round of 
contests ending March 28t.h, was as follows: 
Player. 
Won. 
Lost. 
Player. 
Won. 
Lost. 
Deimar. 
.... 11 
0 
Phillip. 
. 1 
1 
Dr. Barnett_ 
. 11 
0 
Elwell. 
. 1 
1 
Spence. 
.... 11 
0 
Abraham. 
. 1 
1 
Perrin. 
. 11 
0 
Bagaxt. 
.. .. . 1 
1 
< Turner. 
_ 1 
1 
Ingalls. 
. 1 
1 
Davis. 
1 
All the others lost, more games than they won. 
pw* Will our University correspondents Tdndly send us their most recent 
catalogues. 
—On Saturday afternoon, March 28th, the Nameless 
Dlub, of Brooklyn, mustered up force at the Capitoline 
grounds, and had a practice game between their first and 
lecond nines, which ended as follows:— 
First Nine—5 3 5 1 4—18. 
Second Nine—0 2 0 1 2—5. 
The game was played under the old rules, the umpire not 
>eing posted in the new code. It is time that the amateurs 
jot hold of the new rules and studied them up well. “De 
Witt’s Guide”—Mr. Chadwick’s work—is now out, and 
'here is an explanatory appendix to each rule of the code. 
Certainly the professionals ought to post themselves up in 
-he rules at once, for nearly all are ignorant of the new 
gode. Of the play shown in the practice game of Satur- 
jjfey by the Nameless, the excellent catching of Crosby was 
worthy of special mention. He will make a fine player in 
jj he position, being plucky and skillful in facing and judg¬ 
ing the pitching. Mayhew was wild in his delivery, and 
mder the new rule^of “wide balls” half of his opponents 
would have been sent to bases on wides. Pitchers will 
lave to be careful of this “wide” business this season. On 
-jailed balls more latitude is allowed than before, as only 
ijjvery third ball not over the base can be called. But in 
die case of wide balls every ball out of reach is obliged to 
she called a wide by the umpire whenever delivered, and 
;every ball touching the ground in front of the home base, 
■hr which, touches the batsman’s person, or which is out of 
.fair re:cli of the bat in any way, is a “wide” ball, and must 
she called the moment it passes the line of the home base. 
fThe Nameless club have a fine corps of amateur players to 
choose from this season. On Saturday, though it was “too 
chilly to play ball” for some of the professionals present, 
Uhe amateurs went in for practice with spirit. The game 
'played was marked by thorough good humor, and it was 
fully enjoyed. The second nine played some of their posi¬ 
tions very well, Gray doing some good catching behind the 
bat, and Merritt fielding actively at short field. On the 
other side Smith’s base play was excellent. Carpenter as¬ 
sisted once in good style. They will have to put “Carp” 
•on the nine. 
The Montague club also had a little practice game on the 
upper field on the same day. 
—On Wednesday the amateur clubs were to meet again 
on the Capitoline field, and the Chelseas were to play the 
Davis nine. Jackson, of the Staten Island nine of 1873, 
has joined the Chelseas. 
—On March 30th the Athletic club defeated the Modocs 
in a match game at Philadelphia by a score of 27 to 4. 
—The Atlantics opened play at the Capitoline grounds 
for the season of 1874 on March 30th, when a large crowd 
gathered to watch the proceedings, the weather being pro¬ 
pitious. The Atlantic nine played a strong field ten, with 
the following result:— 
! Field —0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 1 — 6 . 
i, Atlantic —0 1 0 0 7 0 0 1 7—16. 
Umpire, Mr. Chadwick; time, 1:40. 
, —T^ie first grand championship game of the season in the 
^professional base ball arena will take place on Thursday, 
April 16tli, when the Philadelphia and Athletic nines will 
meet at Twenty-fifth and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia. 
| —Three tons of base ball bats have been shipped by a 
[Single Vermont manufacturer to the Boston market this 
winter. 
—The French billiard player, F. Ubassey, will leave for 
.Europe in May. 
[ —A. P. Rudolph, now in Chicago, is expected in New 
La Chasse Illustree. —We would call attention to the 
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the Continent, devoted to the interests of the sportsman. 
Handsomely printed, and profusely illustrated, it is written 
with that exceeding grace which only Frenchmen possess. 
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and originality. On its editorial staff may be found some 
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Unis, is its editor. The subscription is $5 a year. 
—On Tuesday last we inspected at Mr. Blackford’s, in 
Fulton Market, the first salmon from the Oregon rivers 
which have arrived this season in our eastern markets. 
Noble big fellows were they, weighing about 25 pounds. 
In appearance the California salmon differs materially from 
our own fish, being more chunky and thicker through, and 
without those graceful outlines, which render our salmon 
the personification of beauty. Some of our friends, fish- 
eaters par excellence, inform us that the Salmo Quinnat is 
quite as good as the best Canadian fish. At Mr. Black 
ford’s we saw two Maine trout of two and three pounds 
weight.. 
—Forest and Stream has got as far as New Mexico in 
its travels. We have one subscriber in the Territory, and 
now comes the Albuquerque Republican Review, printed half 
in English and half in Spanish, requesting an exchange. 
We have great encouragement to hope for an extended cir¬ 
culation in the land of the Pimos, Apaches and Maricopas! 
--- 
—Over 500 acres of scrub oak and pine land were burnt 
over near Farmingdale, Long Island, last week, involving 
a loss in timber, cattle, fences, &c., of $150,000. This sec¬ 
tion of the country is noted for its quantities of game, rab¬ 
bits especially, hundreds of which must have perished. 
—During a late discussion on a trout bill in the Massa¬ 
chusetts Legislature, Mr. Butterworth, of Brookfield, raised 
quite a laugh by moving to amend by providing that if 
trout less than three inches bite they shall have leave to with¬ 
draw. 
--- 
—The Selma Exposition Jockey Club of Selma, Ala., 
opened on Monday and continued three days. Splendid 
stables from New York, Boston and Baltimore were present. 
The New Orleans and Mobile stables were especially fine. 
—-- 
—A census of the Lake Superior Cliippewas, according 
to the pay rolls, shows an increase since 1856 of 1,182 
souls. 9 
—A devout observer of Lent says that about this time he 
begins to feel scaly. 
—We have several communications in type which will 
appear in our next. 
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Lincoln and Seward. By Gideon Welles, ex-Secretary 
of the Navy. N. Y.: Sheldon & Co. 
It is the duty of every critical reviewer to state in plain unequivocal 
terms the character of the work he reviews; also,if historical or political, 
the animus of the leading characters spoken of in the work. Persons 
reading the life of Abraham Lincoln by W. II. Seward would, if they 
read this little work as a mere narration of facts, be led erroneously to 
suppose that instead of Abraham Lincoln, the President of these United 
States, the live, acting head of the Administration, he was, to a cer¬ 
tain extent, the puppet of W. H. Seward, which, as a fact, has not the 
shadow of truth, as all the acts of Lincoln fully prove. He undoubdtedly 
consulted with the Secretary of State on all occasions, and listened with 
dne deference to the councils of Mr. Seward; but Abraham Lincoln’s 
whole administration, when carefully examined by true history, give the 
lie to the idea that the President was ruled by any “power behind the 
throne.” Mr. Lincoln made sure that his policy was to the best of his 
judgment right; any other opinion, received from whatever source they 
may come, we believe to be untrue and false. Lincoln’s policy was the 
leading policy, and his conceptions of right his own, and he acted upon 
those convictions with an eye single to the interests of a country then 
passing a great and trying crisis of her h ; . _ory. "We think every candid 
reader of this work will give Mr, Lincoln all the credit he is so truly en¬ 
titled to, and not be governed by any of the specious arguments to the 
contrary. 
Martyrdom of Man. Bv Winn wood Reade. N. Y.: 
A. K. Butts. 
Mr. Reade in this work open i ‘he question of the influences which 
have had a tendency to oppress and degrade the standard of 
manhood in the ancient and modern times. The work is one in which 
much ability and careful research and no little analytical power is evi¬ 
dent. We are sorry that the author has not given us a larger work, for 
from a careful reading of the work, w r e think he should have had more 
space to develop his idea. More radical in tone than many works upon 
this subject,, the author is sometimes very severe, if not bitter, in certain 
attacks on what he believes to be erroneous in religion, theological teach¬ 
ings, and every false doctrine. The work is without doubt conscien¬ 
tiously written, and vvflen read with a view of getting good, will, besides 
imparting much useful information to the general reader, prove reform¬ 
atory. For Bale by Lee & Shepard, Boston. 
Robert Carter & Brother, .New York, liave just pub¬ 
lished two juvenile works of much merit, entitled “Between the Cliffs” 
and “The New Schellaus.” Both of these stories are very well told, and 
the ground they cover cannot fail to improve, as well as instruct, our 
young people. Carter & Co. have been quite successful in their selec¬ 
tion of interesting matter for the young, and we are grateful to sec this 
house is to a certain extent making a specialty of this kind of literature. 
Diamond cut Diamond. By T. Adolphus Trollope. 
New York: Harper & Bros. 
In this story of Tuscan life, where all the incidents, like a fine alto re - 
leivo, stand out distinctly, we become at once interested with the most 
minute characters. Domenico Rappi, a fattone or bailiff, one who has 
the oversight and management of landlords, is a resident of the upper 
Arno. His “religious wife,” his two daughters, like their good mother, 
think there is no priest among priests who deserve more implicit service 
than holy father Don Ignazis Vernino. Yet the younger daughter is 
somewhat heretical in her idea, and like her father likes to do her own 
thinking. As may be judged, the forte of the author is found to be in 
his attempt to make a pretty readable anti-G’atholic novel. Quite read¬ 
able,and dealing with ever} day life rather than with monstrous incongru¬ 
ities, all that is here told may have been; there is no shocking of one’s 
conscience; the priest even has a conscience, for a peculiar belief of his 
leads him to consider “God and the church 'to be and to mean 
the same thing, and the service of one to be the service of the other.” 
He schemes, as he supposes, pretty wisely, when he attempts to make a 
home in a convent for one of the daughters preferable to her father’s 
house and care. The story is smpiy and well told, and to sum it up in a 
word, it is one of the many stories of priestly interference with the do¬ 
mestic life and family arrangements so often found in Italy and Tuscany, 
The finale is good; the book pleasant. 
Fables in Song. By Robert Lord Lytton. Osgood & 
Co. Boston. 
All our readers who hung delighted over the sweet poems in “Lucille” : 
will find our anthor has given them, not a pastoral, a ballad, or a story 
of love in “Fables in Song,” but a sober, interesting collection of fables- 
in which birds, as in the olden time, held converse with each other. 
Every poem is finished, and has a moral, such as is easily understood. 
The little things are here cared for, and the grains of sand have their 
lessons and their mission. “The Two Fables,” “Who’s in the Right?” 
give fine illustrations of general effects. Overflowing with specimens of 
shrewd good sense and pleasant style, it is a work that will have many 
readers. It is in Osgood & Co.’s usual tasty style 
Early Lessons in Natural Science. With illustra¬ 
tions. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. Philadelphia. 1874. 
Ship Aiioy. A l r arn in Thirty-six Cable Lengths. Il¬ 
lustrated by Wallis Mackay and Frederick Waddy, N. Y.: Harper 
& Bros. 
When you commence the reading of this hook you may feel assured by 
the first cable length that you will be sure to overhaul every yarn before 
you coil up a single length. This work, we are sure, will have a great 
sale. It has to recommend it to the public a lively naturalness of con¬ 
ception, that gives to it all the elements of a historical romance; and 
alas! there is more truth than fiction in this startling nautical story. Vir¬ 
tue, in the end triumphs, and vice is punished; yet not according to the 
prescribed rules and judgment of men. This work has a fascination 
about it rarely found in sea stories of the kind of “Ship Ahoy” series. 
Finely illustrated with spirited engravings. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
The Life of Charles Sumner. By the Rev. Elias Nason. 
In press, and will be published May 1st by B. B. Russell. Boston. 
Mr. Nason is quite w ell fitted to make a life of the great statesman not 
only true in detail, correct in statements of his eminent, world-wide ser¬ 
vice, but from a long and intimate personal acquaintance and intimate 
relationship, he will make a work every way deserving the appreciation 
of the lovers of the great worth of the venerated statesman so recently 
deceased. We shall refer to this work again. 
Rowing and Athletic Manual for 1874. This concise 
little work gives the record of races,the National Amateur Regatta rules;- 
also an article on the -‘sliding seat,” and other useful information to 
oarsmen and amateur athletics. Edited by James Watson, of Wilkes' 
Spirit of the Times. 
The History of North American Birds. By S. F, 
Baird, T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgvvay. Land Birds. Illustrated. Vol. 
III. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.' 1874. 
—Detroit Free Press: When a Chicago paper, commences- 
an article by saying, “An idiotic, newspaper concern in this 
city.” &c., the seven other papers take it up as a personal 
hit. 
