April 25, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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ARTHUR BINNEY. 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 
Mason Building, Kilby Street. BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, '‘Designer,” Boston. 
C. Sherman Hoyt. Montgomery H. Clark. 
HOYT at CLARK. 
RAVAL ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS. 
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C*Jioe Handling ai\d Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Varieties, 
Practical Management and Care, and Relative Facts. 
By C. Bowyer Vaux (“Dot). Illustrated. Cloth, 
16S pages. Price, $1.00. New and revised edition, 
with additional matter. 
A complete manual for the management of the canoe. 
Everything is made intelligible to the veriest novice, and 
Mr. Vaux proves himself one of those successful in- 
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Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
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ire devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
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The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip- 
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ill technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
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The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
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thousands of years, than any other country of 
the globe.” * 
China itself is not excepted. Here is a fact 
that may well set us to thinking, for its an¬ 
tiquity is very great and its past must be cor¬ 
respondingly interesting. Often attacked, it was 
never conquered. “Trojan was the only Roman 
emperor who penetrated into the interior.” » 
Arabic literature conveys an idea of polite 
culture almost from its beginning. Mahomet 
was not born until Jew and Gentile had 
quarreled over religious views to the verge of 
war, which weakened ancient faith and afforded 
the false prophet an opportunity to utilize his 
wife’s money for the organization of cavalry 
bandits by whose aid he robbed caravans and 
devoted his plunder to the foundation of an¬ 
other “religion” still. Arabia was his field, and 
he not only occupied it, hut gave it more busi¬ 
ness than English ovens at Christmas. Of 
course, the country “flourished, as never before, 
under the Calir.hs.’ Islam and Christendom 
‘ were nearly equal powers for six hundred 
years after the ‘prophet’s’ death, and it is diffi¬ 
cult, even now, to decide which contributed the 
more to the arts from which modern civiliza¬ 
tion has sprung.” And “yet it does not appear 
that the life of the inhabitants was materially 
changed, or that any growth, acquired during 
the new importance of the country, became 
permanent.” Did anything become permanent 
under Moslem rule except death! If the truth 
was known we would discover that the Caliphate 
destroyed invaluable evidences of Arabian 
progress, _ and that other secrets of vast im¬ 
port remain unknown through the fanatic hatred 
of Christianity which rules the old Seraglio and 
the Yildiz Kiosk. The “reformation” of the 
eighteenth century came very near succeeding, 
and if it had, there would have been “light” 
enough in dark places where, just now, strong 
illumination is most needed. All of the 
“wahabees” are not yet dead! 
The reader who can do so, should take up 
this graphic compilation. I have no time to do 
it justice in these pages. Wellsted’s explora¬ 
tions and adventures are wonderfully interesting. 
He surveyed the south and eastern coasts for 
his government and began to visit the interior 
during the' autumn of 1835. “A single step.” 
says the compiler, “carries the traveler from 
the glare and sand of the desert into a spot 
teeming with the most luxuriant vegetation and 
embowered by lofty trees whose foliage keeps 
out the sun.” Wellsted adds; “Some idea may 
be formed of the density of this shade by the 
effect it produces in lessening the terrestrial 
radiation. A Fahrenheit thermometer, which, 
within the house stood at 50 degrees, six inches 
from the ground fell to 45 degrees. From this 
cause, and the abundance of water, they are al¬ 
ways saturated with damp, and even in the heat 
of the day, possess a clammy coldness.” 
Ibrah is among the hills of the north, and the 
fertility is increased by abrupt limestone ranges. 
“There are some handsome houses,” says the 
8 Page o. 
9 Taylor, page 47: “Wellsted in Oman.” 
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Naval Architect. Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
No. 1 Broadway, (Telephone 2160 RectoD N ew York 
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Building Motor BoeJs and 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
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and digging. 
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