May q. 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 ta CLARK. 
NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS. 
TACHT BROKERAGE. High Speed Work • Specialty. 
17 Battery Place, New York. 
COX (SL STEVENS. 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects, 
IS William Street, - New York. 
Telephones 1375 and 1376 Broad. 
C. D. CALLAHAN. Naval Architect. 
Designer of Yachts and Motor Boats. Construction supervised. 
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C&Jioe Handling and Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Varieties, 
Practical Management and Care, and Relative Facts. 
By C. Bowyer Vaux (“Dot). Illustrated. Cloth, 
168 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¬ 
structors who communicate their own enthusiasm to 
their pupils. 
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Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their principles. Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain, 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple, untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip¬ 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their uses and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vast amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much 
time and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
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Uncle Lisha's Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, 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.” 
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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 Fred Mather. Il¬ 
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It was a happy thought that prompted Mr. Fred Mather 
to write of his fishing companions. The chapters were 
received with a warm welcome at the beginning, and 
hav« been of sustained interest. The “Men I Have 
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Canoe Cruising and Camping. 
By Perry D. Frazer. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. 
Full of practical information for outdoor people, 
whether they travel in canoes, with pack animals or 
carry their outfits on their own backs. 
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The Origin of the Sail. 
Concluded from page 706. 
“Although the waters of every sea were white 
with her sails and the shores of every land, hos¬ 
pitable or inhospitable, civilized or savage, were 
planted with her colonies or frequented by her 
mariners, no relic of her laws, language or blood 
remains.” 
If she dates from the middle of the ninth 
century, as historians infer, it is not likely that 
her cruisers and merchantmen trusted to matting 
or papyrus for sail cloth The probabilities are 
that sails as utilizers of wind for purposes of 
motive power happen to be some fifteen or 
twenty centuries older than living men imagine. 
Anyhow, oars could not have been relied upon 
for such long voyages, and when these were no 
longer necessary or advantageous sails fell into 
neglect and disuse. 
Another and a much later period in the his¬ 
tory of sails and maritime enterprise begins 
about fifty-five years before the dawn of Chris¬ 
tianity. “Carthage must -be destroyed” seems 
to have been the stimulating influence of that 
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Naval Architect, Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
No. 1 Broadway. (Telephone 2160 RectoD New York 
PIGEON - FRASER 
HOLLOW SPARS 
Hollow Sweeps and Sculls 
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116 Condor Street, East Boslon . Mass. 
W. STARLING BURGESS CO., Lid. 
John R. Purdon, Manager. 
Naval Architects. Engineers. Builders 
Office <& Works. MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 
Brokerage and Insurance Dept.. 131 State St., Boston. Mass. 
Building Motor BoaJs aj\d 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
“HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH FROM PLANS” 
t' , ---- v '-'f "«*«■ yj ** n*c uunuuig ui motor 
boats and the installing, care and running of gasolene 
motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 diagrams, » 
folding drawings and 8 full-page plans. Price, post¬ 
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The author is a builder and designer of national repu¬ 
tation. All the instruction given is defined and com¬ 
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use and care of gas engines should be most carefully 
perused by every individual who operates one. The book 
is well worth the price asked for it. 
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Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A of Practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
Clofh? m PHce, S 5 - By Lint °" H0pe ’ 177 
revival. At all events the renaissance was so 
gradual that total ignorance of the past triumphs 
at sea are quite manifest. Dido did not bother 
her pretty head with a little affair of that de¬ 
scription. She left it for some “mere man” to 
unravel, and the slow accomplishment of the 
task is not, therefore, astonishing. Carthage in 
the interval had so utterly disappeared that even 
her original name is conjectural. Tunis is be¬ 
lieved to be near its site. The rise and advance 
• -* ucsigns ior practical demon 
stration, one of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline and 
the other a cruising cutter of 22ft. waterline. Both de 
signs show fine little boats which are fully adapted tc 
American requirements. Full instructions, even to the 
minutest detad, are given for the building of both these 
boats. I he information is not confined to these yachts 
alone; they are merely taken as examples; but what ii 
?? ld .applies to all wooden yacht building according tc 
the best and most approved methods. 
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of the Carthaginians was prolonged, lasting until 
the year 410. The actual date of the great city’s 
foundation has been so much contested that his¬ 
torians will never be able to agree on the sub¬ 
ject. A very good authority sifts the ancient 
speculations and fixes upon 878. That gives it 
nearly five hundred years of prosperity. Im¬ 
agine how commerce and conquest must have 
gone hand in hand to unqualified success. The 
secret of it is that she was a republic. Hav¬ 
ing perished without leaving a single historian 
to relate the events of her mighty record every 
article in her constitution is unknown. There 
was, however, a senate of three hundred mem¬ 
bers. In all of the contingent provisions that 
constitution—although a subject of much dispute 
among students and scholars—remains too ob¬ 
scure for adequate explanation. No other sails 
brightened the seas for many a long year after 
hers disappeared. The oar and the paddle were 
all that pigmy men needed in the primitive exist¬ 
ence which followed her fall. As long as there 
was no cultivation of the soil, estuaries “and 
rivers yielded a readier harvest than the land” 
and the rude oar was sufficient impulse for the 
little boats then in use. Even Rome neglected 
the lessons her enemy had taught her and suf¬ 
fered her navies to decay. Not until the Vene¬ 
tians went to war with her did she revive the 
maritime spirit of earlier times. Caesar has left 
Ca.i\oe a.nd BoaJ Building. 
A Complete Manual for Amateurs. Containing plain 
and comprehensive directions for the construction oi 
Canoes, Rowing and Sailing Boats, and Hunting Craft. 
B ,y W - P- Stephens. Cloth. Seventh and enlarged 
edition. 264 pages. Numerous illustrations, and fifty 
plates in envelope. Price, $2.00. 
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WOODCRAFT. 
By Nessmuk. Cloth, 160 pages. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. 
A book written for the instruction and guidance of 
those who go for pleasure to the woods. Its author, 
having had a great deal of experience in camp life, has 
succeeded admirably in putting the wisdom so acquired 
into plain and intelligible English. 
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