Sept. 14, 1912 
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FOREST AND STREAM 
THE OUTDOOR LIBRARY 
Seasonable books dealing with every phase of life 
in the Open. Handbooks of sport. Books that 
make “roughing it easy.” Books for Fisherman, 
Hunter, Yachtsman, Canoeist, Camper, Nature 
Lover. Books of Travel and Adventure for 
Young and Old. 
ALFRED F. LANE, CHAMPION. 
From practice shooting in the cellar of his 
father’s house up through a string of lesser 
triumphs to champion pistol shot of the world, 
within less than two and one-half years, is the 
phenomenal career, in tabloid, of twenty-year- 
old Alfred P. Lane, of New York, who brought 
home to his admiring parents three gold medals 
representing as many pistol championships won 
against all the world at the Olympic games. 
For several days last month the cables were 
weighted with the achievements of young Lane, 
who successively won the world’s individual pis¬ 
tol championship, the world’s individual duelling 
championship, took high place in the team pistol 
competition at thirty meters, and made a new 
world’s record, 509 x 600, in the team competi¬ 
tion at fifty meters. 
In conferring a gold medal for each of the 
three winnings, the King of Sweden congratu¬ 
lated the youthful marksman on the fact that 
he only, of all the American team, had won 
more than two gold medals. Lane had not only 
made himself indoor pistol champion of the 
United States Revolver Association, but had 
earned three world’s records previous to his 
clean-up at Stockholm. 
The new world’s record maker is not apt 
to do much of his own advertising. Reporters 
who interviewed him at the dock on his arrival 
found a quiet, modest lad. with the steady, light 
blue eye and cool manner of the born marksman, 
but who spoke only when directly questioned 
and then very briefly. 
“No, there is no marked evidence of shoot¬ 
ing ability in my ancestry—any more than there 
was in my own life up to within a couple of 
years ago,” said Lane. “True, my mother’s line 
extends back to Miles Standish, but it’s a long 
way back. In more recent days it is related that 
one of my grandparents, finding it necessary to 
shoot a calf, had a negro hold the animal while 
the execution took place. When chided for his 
poor marksmanship, my ancestor retorted that 
he had positive proof of a reputation as a sharp¬ 
shooter in the fact that the negro had dared to 
hold the calf. 
“My first shooting was done with a .22 cali¬ 
ber rifle in the cellar of my New York city 
home where my father fixed up a gallery for 
me. One day he found me firing a .38 pistol and 
it was then he decided that I would have to find 
another place to practice. The Manhattan Re¬ 
volver Club was nearby and I took up there the 
systematic practice which enabled me later to 
make my way to world’s records. 
“I shoot because I love the sport—I know 
of nothing more certain to produce steadiness 
of hand and eye, poise and ‘steel’ nerves. It is 
also a comparatively inexpensive recreation. 
Anyone in city or country who is interested in 
shooting can readily arrange for practice, and 
usually for membership in an association of 
shooters. 
“Did I enjoy my trio? Well, I certainly 
did enjoy every moment of it. The comradeship 
of the athletes of our team was a continual pleas¬ 
ure and our relations with the teams of other 
nations were almost invariably of the most 
friendly character. We were treated royally 
everywhere. It was an inspiration to see our 
boys get aw T ay with so much of the program 
and I’m happy to be able to bring back part of 
the medals and to have added a few points to 
the American teams’ total.” 
MOTORIST POISONS FISPI BY CARBIDE. 
An American tourist had a peculiar experi¬ 
ence recently in Southern Bavaria. Passing by 
a small stream, after a long trip, he stopped his 
car to empty the old carbide from his acetylene 
generator and refill it. A few days later he re¬ 
ceived a note from the supervisor of the county, 
notifying him of a suit for damages entered 
against him for poisoning the fish in the river 
with carbide. It seems that the part of the 
river had just been stocked with bass, and many 
had been killed by the gases developed by the 
carbide residue. — Scientific American. 
Uncle Lisha’s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Rob- 
insdn. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
i’eggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
borhood used to meet of evenings and dull outdoor days, 
“to swap lies.” 
Hunting Without a Gun. 
And other papers. By Rowland E. Robinson. With 
illustrations from drawings by Rachael Kobinsoft. 
Price, $2.00 
This collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
tributed to Forest and Stream and other publications 
and now for the first time brought together. 
Forest Runes. 
Poems by George \V. Sears (“Nessmuk”). With arto- 
type portraits and autobiographical sketch of the author. 
Cloth, 208 pages. Price, $1.50. 
American Big Game Hunting. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club: Editors: 
Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Illus¬ 
trated. Cloth, 3-i5 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Trail and Camp-Fire. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editors: 
George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt. 
Illustrated. Cloth, 353 pages. Price, $2.50. 
Like its predecessors, the present volume is devoted 
chiefly to the great game and outdoor life of Northern 
America; yet it does not confine itself to any one land, 
though it is first of all a book about America, its game 
and its people. 
American Big Game in Its Haunts. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club for 1904. 
George Bird Grinnell, Editor. 490 pages and 46 
full-page illustrations. Price, $2.50. 
This is the fourth and by far the largest and hand¬ 
somest of the Club’s books. It opens with a sketch of 
Theodore Roosevelt, founder of the Boone and Crockett 
Club, and contains an extremely interesting article from 
his pen descriptive of his visit to the Yellowstone Park 
in 1903 Other papers are on North American Big 
Game; Hunting in Alaska; The Kadiac Bear; Moose; 
Mountain Sheep; Game Refuges, and other big-game 
topics. 
My Friend the Partridge. 
By S. T. Hammond. Cloth, 150 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
An inimitable study of ihe noblest of our game birds, 
following the ruffed grouse deep into his haurts, de¬ 
tailing the experiences of more than 60 years in the 
field, and throwing much light on the habits, life history 
and habitat of the game. A most delightful reminder 
of happy days with upland game. 
Inter-Ocean Hunting Tales. 
By Edgar F. Randolph. Cloth, 200 pages. Postpaid, $1.00. 
A collection of stories such as are told about the 
camp-fire. Mr. Randolph offers a hunting experience 
bounded only by the two oceans, replete with incident, 
interesting from its novel viewpoint, and dealing with 
every kind of game that falls to the rifle of the American 
sportsman. 
The Spaniel and Its Training. 
By F. H. F. Mercer. To which are added the American 
and English Spaniel Standards. Cloth. Illustrated. 
Price, $1.00. 
Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun 
from childhood to manhood; from the killing of little 
fishes and birds to a buffalo hunt. By F'red Mather. 
Illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
Training the Hunting Dog for the Field and 
Field Trials. 
By B Waters. Cloth, 281 pages. Price, $1.50. 
This is the latest and best manual on the subject. As 
an owner and handler of field trial dogs, and one having 
had an exceptionally wide experience in the field and at 
field trials, Mr. Maters was admirably equipped to write 
such a work. It has already taken its place as the 
standard authority. 
American Duck Shooting. 
By George Bird Grinnell. Cloth, 630 pages. With 58 
portraits of North American Swans, Geese and Ducks, 
Plans of Boats and Batteries. Fifty Vignettes in the 
text and a chart of the topography of a duck's piumage 
Price, $3.50. 
My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, 
Trading and Indian Fighting. 
By W. T. Hamilton (“Bill” Hamilton). M'ith 8 full- 
page illustrations by Chas. M. Russell. New York. 
Cloth. 233 pages. Price, $1.50. 
Manual of Taxidermy for Amateurs. 
A complete guide in collecting and preserving birds 
and animals. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated New 
edition. Price, $1.00. 
“The Long Shooters” and the Origin of 300 
Yards Revolver Shooting. (New.) 
By YVm. Brent Altsheler. Price 75 cents. Postage 4 
cents extra. 
Interesting alike to civilian and soldier, amateur and 
professional. A neatly bound volume; illustrated from 
photographs of shooters and shooting scenes. 
Woodcraft. 
By Nessmuk. Cloth, 200 pages. Illustrated. Postpaid. 
$ 1 . 00 . 
No better book was ever written for the help and 
guidance of those who go into the woods for sport and 
recreation. It is simple and practical, and withal a 
classic, written with a rare and quaint charm. 
Houseboats and Houseboating. 
By Albert Bradlee Hunt. The book contains lorty 
specially prepared articles by owners and designers of 
well-known house-boats, and is beautifully illustrated with 
nearly 200 line and half-tone reproductions of plans and 
exteriors and interiors. A most interesting chapter is 
devoted to houseboating in England. Extra heavy paper, 
buckram. The price is $3.00 net. Postage, 34 cents. 
Some Native Birds for Little Folks. 
By Dr. W. Van Fleet. Illustrated by Howard H. 
Darnell. Cloth. 146 pages, with 14 photogravure 
plates. Price, $1.00. 
Describes the wood duck, the great horned owl, ruffed 
grouse, killdeer, plover, bobolink, blueiay, chickadee, cedar 
bird, meadow lark, robin, woodcock, kingfisher, crossbill, 
and nuthatches. 
The Anglers’ Workshop. Rod Making for 
Beginners. 
By Perry D. Frazer. Cloth, 180 pages. Four full-page 
illustrations, 60 working drawings. Postpaid, $1 00. 
A complete, simple and thoroughly up-to-date work 
for the guidance of the amateur rod maker, carrying him 
from first principles through all phases of successful rod 
making. There is no theorizing or speculation. All 
terms are simple, and all kinds of rods and woods are 
treated of. 
Modem Fishculture in Fresh and Salt Water. 
By Fred Mather, author of “Men I have Fished With,** 
with a chapter on Whitefish Culture by Hon. Herschel 
Whitaker, and a chapter on the Pike-Perch by Jame* 
Nevin. Illustrated. Price, $2.00. 
My Angling Friends. 
A Second Series of “Men I Have Fished With.” By 
Fred Mather. Cloth, 369 pages, with 13 illustrations. 
Price $1.50. 
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