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[April 19, 1888. 



give plenty of exercise. Take your beagle out with an old dog, 

 and he will soon take hold if lie has any hunt in him. 



D. M., Albany, N. Y.—l. How is the best way to keep sparrows 

 out of the eaves of your house? 2. At what time of the year is 

 the fly troui fishing best in Lake George? Ans. 1. You will have 

 to put netting over the eaves. 2. There is no fly-fishing for trout 

 in Lake George. 



C. B., London, Ont.— "Where can I get some information about 

 building a trout pnnd? Have a stream on which a pond could be 

 made, but do not know how to go about it. Ans. Get a hook on 

 the subject or employ a practical fishculturist. We can furnish 

 "Trout Culture," by J. H. Slack, price $1. 



F. B., New York.— Where can I get the Sidereal Messenger, for 

 February, 1888? Also tell me the best way to use vinegar and 

 water in'cleaning a gun, and does not pure vinegar eat the metal 

 if not wiped off? Ans. 1. Write to Wm. W. Payne, Korthfleld, 

 Minn. 2. Of course the vinegar and water must be wiped off, 

 acetic acid does eat metal slightly. 



Lion, Camden.— 1. Do all sporting dogs have the hunting claws? 

 2. Which book do you think is the besc for a study of the birds, 

 Coues's "Key to North American Birds," or Ridgwa.y's "Manual 

 of Worth American Birds"? 3. What are the principal colors of 

 the snowbird? Ans. L They are sometimes seen in all breeds. 

 2. Either one is excellent, but Ridgway's is the latest. 3. Which 

 snowbird do you mean, Junco or PlcctropTienaxi The former is 

 slate-color and white. 



W. H. B., Duluth, Minn.— In stocking a hunting ground near 

 Duluth, Minn., where could I get any partridge, how late should 

 they be let out and how much would they cost? Ans. If by part- 

 ridges you mean ruffed grouse, we do not know where you can 

 get them. If you mean quail (WiniB vlruinianvs), they can prob- 

 ably be had almost anywhere in the Southwest, as they certainly 

 can at the proper season in New York city. They are advertised 

 every fall and winter in our columns. 



G. F. M., Boston, Mass.— Can you tell me where one can find 

 any trout, bass, or salmon fishing near here? I am tied down to 

 my desk every day except Saturdays and Sundays and wish to 

 spend those days in the open air. Ans. We know of no black 

 bass near enough to Boston to enable you to enjoy fishing for 

 them during the time named. For salmon you would have to go 

 to the Merrimack or Penooscot, and for trout down on Cape Cod. 

 We think you will have to content yourself with salt-water 

 fishing. 



R. D. W., Savannah. — I have some ring doves; they are nearly 

 white, with a black ring half circling the neck. They lay two 

 eggs, purely white. They hatch in fourteen days, invariably. 

 Tne original pair I purchased had fifteen young ones last year, 

 and this year the others have commenced laying and hatching, 

 and my aviary, which is lOft.XlOtt. and 9ft. high, will be crowded. 

 Can you give me any information as to the history of the birds, 

 what country they are from? Ans. The ring dove is an Old 

 World species and is common in India, whence, perhaps, your 

 birds may have come. 



A. B., Toronto.— As the trout season is about to open I write to 

 ask you if any of your many readers could inform me through 

 your columns of the best manner of attracting t he trout at tne 

 opening of the season, just after the ice has left. I mean both in 

 lakes and rivers where there are known to be lots of trout and 

 large ones. I ask this because last year a party of us tried a lake 

 and river at the opening of the season and had little sport, though 

 they are pretty good anglers. Perhaps the methods employed in 

 Rangeley or Mair*lakes if explained might help us. Ans. Your 

 inquiry is unsigned. See notice at head of this column. 



HISTORIC WATERWAYS. 



Historic Waterways. By Reuben Gold Thwaites. Chicago: A- 

 C. McClurg & Co. 8vo., cloth. Price $1.25. 



This is a narrative of six hundred miles of canoeing down the 

 Rock, Fox and Wisconsin rivers, by Reuben Gold Thwaites, sec- 

 retary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and, as might 

 be inferred from the professional status of the author, the book is 

 something more than the ordinary narrative of a busy man's out- 

 ing. As a mere narrative of six hundred miles of canoeing on 

 almost deserted waterways, and of chance intercourse with set- 

 tlers and villagers along the rivers' banks, the work would be 

 read with interest, although the writer, with his fidelity to truth, 

 has certainly not pictured many of the settlers and villagers with 

 whom he came in contact in attractive colors. 



But while the author has striven to do justice to his narrative, 

 which he has brightened with fine bits of descriptive scenery and 

 lighted with artistic sketches of the people he met, he has not 

 been content with that, but drawing from the abundant records 

 at his command, he pauses on the way to repeople the h enes 

 through which he passes with the actors of past generations. 

 Here he poiuts out the forest where Black Hawk camped with the 

 white-loving Pottawattomies, and there tne open rolling prairie 

 where Stillman's horsemen won undying shame by their cow- 

 ardice, until finally you enter the Mississippi at the exact spot 

 where Joliet and Marquette discovered it in June, 1673. 



The work coutains abundant historic narrative drawn from the 

 most reliable sources, and the descriptive portion appears to be 

 written rather with an eye for exactitude than for pictorial 

 effect. 



It is a work to be set aside for future reference after it has 

 served its purpose of whiling away a mid-summer's holiday. 



The Flower People, by Mrs. Horace Mann, is one of the series 

 of classics for home and school, published hv Lee & Shepard, 

 Boston. The work is based on the pretty conceit that the flowers 

 talk, "just like other folks," and from this standpoint it is easily 

 conceived that their several narratives and descriptions of them- 

 selves will prove more interesting to the very young student than 

 the dreary accounts of them to be found in the average first book 

 of botany. The authoress has the happy faculty of provoking 

 curiosity in respect of the numerous subjects touched on by the 

 flowers in the course of conversation. For example, the tulips, 

 make many references to Holland, where their family were held 

 in great esteem; flower people of distinction in fact; and the 

 young reader will want enlightenment on this and a hundred 

 other subjects touched on. The book as a first text book of botany 

 contains a fund of exact information on the flower and its sev- 

 eral parts, makes the flowers discuss the several popular and 

 scientific names by which they are known, and express their 

 preferences, and in fact contains quite a fund of general informa- 

 tion on classification, descriptive botany, nomenclature and veg- 

 etable physiology, and on the properties of plants, their economic 

 value as medicines, dyes, etc., all rendered as charming as a fairy 

 tale. There were no such pleasant aids to the studs' of botany 

 when the authoress and her reviewer went to school. The lan- 

 guage is studiously simple, but the authoress has the poet's tem- 

 perament, which, indicated in the nleasant conceit on which the 

 book was designed, displays itself constantly in the rhythmic 

 cadence of her carefully constructed sentences. This is one of the 

 hild classics we can recommend with confidence. 



A Kiss for a Blow, by Henry C. Wright, is another of the 

 same series of Lee & Shepard's classics for home and school. 

 As its title implies it is not designed to enlighten the intellect, 

 but to inculcate the beauty of peace— the spirit of love. In fact 

 to stimulate to that spirit of self-sacrifice, which is always more 

 read y to suffer injury than to inflict it. The lesson is inculcated 

 in a series of some half a hundred very interesting little romances, 

 most of them based on the actual experience of the author m his 

 long connection with children, in the course of which, he tells us, 

 he was an immate of more than a thousand families, and had 

 addressed more than fifty thousand children on his favorite sub- 

 ject, which he illustrated with the stories collected in the volume 

 we are reviewing. One of the quaintest and most charming of 

 these stories is that of the delicate little girl in the crowd, who 

 being asked what children would do when they were filled with 

 the spirit of peace, replied feelingly that "they would not huach 

 when others crowd." 



First Steps with American and British Authors— Albert 

 F. Rlaisdell, already favorably known as the author of "The 

 Study of the English Classics" and other educational works, has 

 new given us a volume under the above title, designed to furnish 

 a systematic first course of literary instruction for voting people 

 by means of judicious selections from the flowers of English liter- 

 ature in prose and verse. The volume begins with the least diffi- 

 cult and most modern authors, and by a systematic study and 

 analysis of the several selections, in accordance with a general 

 system prescribed by the author, to insure a perfect comprehen- 

 sion of the language, and so far as may be, a proper appreciation 

 of the thought. The selections are culled from Longfellow, 

 W ashmgton Irving, John G. Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and 

 all the best American writers in prose and verse, and the best 

 English authors are also laid under contribution. Blaisdell's 

 prescribed methods exact conscientious efficient work from the 

 teachers, but will insure results which in the end will greatly 

 facilitate their labors, to the very appreciable benefit of the 

 students. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 



Papers for Farmers.— What becomes of all the literature 

 published at the cost of the States is a question that suggests 

 itself after the perusal of a series of lectures by Hiram A. Cutting, 

 M.D., Ph.D. and Secretary of the Board of Agriculture of Ver- 

 mont. They treat of plants, fertilization, insects, forestry, farm 

 homes, maple sugar industry, experimental farm work, cattle dis- 

 ease, milk, birds, etc., and bring so much intelligent research to 

 bear on eac.n and all of these subjects, that it is not too much to 

 say that the farmer who has mastered them is blessed with a lib- 

 eral education. But who ever saw any of these works in a Ver- 

 mont farmhouse, who ever met a Vermont, farmer, or, for 

 that matter, a Vermont legislator, familiar with the information 

 which the learned secretary has acquired and striven to make 

 public? There is something wrong about this; papers are valu- 

 able, but their value is potential only. It is very interesting to 

 know that the secretary of a State Board of Agri'culcur is a man 

 of enlightened mind andliberal culture and very creditable to the 

 State to have such a man at the head of the Agricultural De- 

 partment, but the measure of the pratical value of his labors 

 is the extent to which his writings are distributed among the 

 people. There is a vast amount of valuable literature printed 

 in the State presses of the countrs\ and some means should be de- 

 vised to insure its distribution among those who would be bene- 

 fited in health, purse and intelligence by the information it con- 

 veys. 



Spalding's Base Ball Guide for 1888.— It is said that 100,000 

 copies of this excellent work, the first edition, were placed on 

 news stands throughout the country on the first day of April. 



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