To those who stay at home and those who have traveled, the" SCENES FROM EVERY LAND," recently published by Mast Crowell and Kirkpatrick, alike appeal. This collection of 500 illustrations, made from actual photographs, possess the advantage of accuracy; the descriptions are charmingly written and contain a surprising amount of information. The system of indexing used renders the information relative to any city, country, building or scene readily accessible, thus making it a valuable work of reference. It contains many fine photographs of famous paintings and statuary in the art galleries of London, Paris, Florence, Rome. Dresden and other great cities. The publishers have wisely devoted considerable space to American scenery. Publishers generally illustrate other lands to the neglect of our own. 'Tis a volume that is a pleasure and an education merely to turn the leaves.

"CAP AND GOWN" is a neat little volume of college verses selected by Joseph La Roy Harrison. Many of these short poems are of high literary merit, but their chief value is in their close association with happy college days, the sentiments of which are here versified with buoyancy and youthful vigor. The verses are chosen from college journals, in which they appeared, and are wholly the work of undergraduates. [Joseph Knight Company, Boston.]

"W. E. GLADSTONE," is a little sketch of the political and social life of England's great commoner, in which the author does not attempt either criticism or close analysis of the acts of his life, but rather adheres to the anecdotal and historical. The book is neatly bound, and contains many interesting incidents relating to Gladstone that escape the pen of the political [Fleming H. Revell Company, New York and Chicago.]

historian.

"ALADDIN IN LONDON " is a bold attempt to utilize the classic fiction of the Arabian Nights in the construction of a modern romance. There is neither originality in the story nor strength in its character. It is no less a fairy tale by the introduction of English people and the well dressed slave performs magic mandates with less grace than the conventional fairy goddess. Instead of Aladdin's lamp the hero is endowed by fate with a less bulky talisman-a ring containing a lapis lazuli on which is inscribed in Sanscrit, 44

Brahma wills it." At the wearer's bidding, Janshah, the slave of the ring, supplies wealth to the limit of twenty million pounds, although the actual source whence it. is so readily procured at a moment's notice is left unexplained. [Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.]

"NAPOLEON," an historical drama in six acts, by R. S. Dement, may not be suitable for the modern stage, which of late years seems to shun even the lines of Shakespeare, yet it forms a book that will be read with great interest and pleasure. The author adheres closely to history, selecting from the life of Napoleon the strongest scenes and situations. [ Knight, Leonard & Co., Chicago.]

"QUABBIN," a story of social life in a typical New England town, by Francis H. Underwood,

is the result of minute and keen observation which memory has transplanted under the husbandry of an artistic pen. As a study of life and character under the wholesome chill of Puritanism the book is both instructive and fascinating. There is no blindness to the faults of the Puritans. In a certain sense they were the salt of the New World, and yet their theocratic polity operated as a formidable barrier to the advance of civilization. The author understands all this, and condemns it at need, but not in the unmeasured terms of certain modern writers,-he has penetrated too deeply into the Puritan spirit for that. The closing chapter, on "The Return of the Native," will find its responsive echo in the heart of every man who, after an active life in the world, has once more sought the town of his birth, and has vainly endeavored to make fact fit with memory. The author feelingly and beautifully expresses the gentle pathos of this situation, and his closing paragraphs will not easily be forgotten. [Lee & Shepard, Boston.]

"BARON MONTEZ," by Archibald Clavering Gunter, utilizes the material suggested by the recent Panama scandal and introduces to the reader scenes of the isthmus, of New York at the time of the blizzard, and of Paris. The story is entertaining, romantic and highly sensational. [The Home Publishing Co., New York.]

of Octave Thanet's brightest stories. In depict"STORIES OF A WESTERN TOWN" contains six ing scenes from Western village life and introducing to the reader the strong, quaint, and fascinating people of that section, the author displays her talent to the best advantage, as is well known to the many readers of her charming works of fiction. [Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.]

BOOKS Received: "A Father of Six," by N. E. Potapeeko, The Two Countesses," by Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach. [Cassell Publishing Co., New York.] "PIETRO GHISLERI," by F. Marion Crawford. [Macmillan & Co., New York.]

ANSWERS TO "OUTING" CORRESPONDENTS.

Captain N. B. C.-There is no good book, to our knowledge, in which are laid down rules for the guidance of captains of boat clubs. You must be guided chiefly by your own judgment and by the unwritten experience of others. Perhaps you would be helped by the perusal of the rules of old and well-established boatclubs, copies of which you could no doubt obtain upon application. We frequently make suggestions in our rowing department which you may find useful. First of all, perfect your organization and adopt your "stroke," or system of rowing, which we should advise you to model upon that of Yale, if you wish the best. Next, maintain strict discipline, and only have one boss. Even though your crack oarsman should kick," leave him out of the boat rather than have a lack of discipline there.

J. E. S., Detroit, Mich-The best book for you is J. R. Judd's "Key to Health and Strength," $1.50. We can supply you with it.

W. H. W., Rahway, N. J.-If Boland was second to Bucholtz in the trial heat the fact would best have been stated under the head of his last three performances, in order to give the handicapper all possible pertinent data. If he ran in the finals the fact should certainly have been stated. In our opinion, however, the authorities did right in giving Boland the medal; because the omission on the entry blank-as it appears from the facts stated to us-would scarcely have effected Boland's handicap. Nevertheless, any one disposed to hold to the strict letter of the law might hold Boland's entrance fraudulent, whether or not he had run in the finals against Bucholtz. Boland had stated his last and only race in competition there was no need of going further, for by no construction of the word could a race in which he did not get any place in a trial heat or in the finals be called a performance.

If

F. L., Brooklyn, N. Y.-The Naval Militia is governed by the same laws and rules as are the other branches of militia, and, therefore, any man who is eligible to join the militia is eligible for the Naval Militia, subject to certain conditions, including a physical examination. The expense varies. In the Massachusetts brigade there is a mustering fee of $5.00, and monthly dues of fifty cents. Any officer of the Naval Militia in your vicinity will give information.

E. B. H., New Brunswick, N. J.-The best book we know of on the general subject is the volume of the Badminton Library on Rowing," written by W. B. Woodgate, a famous Oxford oarsman, which can be procured through OUTING You will find in The New Review of November, 1892 (an English publication), a good description of the Oxford style of rowing in an article by Mr. R. C. Lehman. The Oxford style is practically identical with that of All England, the difference being only in minor details. We think these two authorities may be of assistance to you-the former especially.

B., New Orleans.-Malcolm Ford's "Distance Running," in OUTING for June, 1891, will give you the desired information,

A. G. M., Box 954, N. Y.-Read Lenz's article in OUTING for April, 1892, and get a good road map, which you can do at Messrs. Spalding's, 241 Broadway, N. Y.

A Past Master of Ocean Steamships.”The proper definition of starboard and port tacks, given in "Luce's Seamanship," the class book used in the United States Naval Academy (p. 447), is, "If the yards are braced up by the port braces, having the wind forward of the starboard beam (that is, on the starboard side), she is then close hauled on the starboard tack," or " has her starboard tacks aboard” (conversely, of course, for the port tack). That is good authority for Americans, but perhaps you are English and do not recognize American authorities. If so, we beg to refer you to Mr. Clark Russell's Sailor's Language," p. 137. "A ship is on this (the starboard) tack when she is sailing with the wind blowing over the right-hand bow." Other authorities need not be quoted; they all agree. Colonel Norton used the words "with the wind blowing against the starboard side " because he thought that would be more easily comprehended by a landsman than would a more technical form. Starboard tacks aboard means nothing to a "fore-and-after," unless he happens to have had some square-rigged experience, but anybody can tell against which side of the boat or over which bow (the same thing in different words) the wind blows.

H.H. Ellerslie on the Hudson.—Mr. Bennett has always had his yachts built in this country. His sloop Rebecca and his schooners. Henrietta and Dauntless, were of the good old American type. His first steam yacht, the Polynia, was built by Ward Stanton & Co., of Newburg, on the Hudson. His second steam yacht, the splendid Namouna, was built by the same firm in 1881 from designs by St. Clare Byrne, of Liverpool, who designed the auxiliary yacht Sunbeam, immortalized by the graphic pen of Lady Brassey. The Namouna, when launched, was the largest American yacht afloat. But then came the Alva, the Nourmahal, and the Atalanta, all of which were larger. The Namouna is 226 feet 10 inches over all and 217 feet on the load water line. Thus the new yacht will be 114 feet longer than Mr. Bennett's old one, and of course much more beautiful and costly. His Sereda, which he uses on the Seine, was constructed abroad. She is only 93 feet long, and is in fact nothing more than a luxuriously appointed steam launch. Mr. Bennett in patronizing American industries sets a good example to his brother millionaires, whose dollars have all been made in this country. W. K. Vanderbilt's steam yacht Valiant, which will be quite a splendid specimen of naval architecture, is well advanced at the yard of the Lairds at Birkenhead, near Liverpool-the same firm, by the way, that built the Alabama. She will not make her appearance in these waters in time for the cruise of the New York Yacht Club.

B. J.-Yes, You can buy anything in the line of Archery or Tennis at very reasonable rates, and be sure of very best goods, of Hinrichs & Co., 29-33 Park Place, N. Y.

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"STARTING."

SEVERAL facts with regard to "starting" have come to my notice since I wrote the article on "Starting and Starters," which appeared in the May issue of OUTING, page 151. I have shown in that article that attention and practice reduce the time required for the mind to react upon the pistol, but I omitted to caution the starter against such things as tend to increase the reaction time. Of these many exist. Some starters maintain that loss of sleep sets the nerves on edge and makes the mind act more quickly. In rare cases loss of sleep may be of advantage to phlegmatic natures; but even for these it is at best a kill-or-cure remedy, which no competent trainer would countenance. Where in one case it would succeed, in nine others it would make the phlegmatic mind duller than ever. The use of stimulants should be avoided above all things, for they weaken the nerves, making the mind slow to react. I once knew a starter of the very greatest promise who ruined his nerves by using strong coffee to keep him awake for longcontinued study and as a mental stimulant before races. Another case in point is that of John L. Sullivan, who, though a man of extreme quickness when in training, so deteriorated his mind by the use of stimulants that, as the psychologist's experiments showed, he was, when out of training, one of the slowest strikers examined.

With regard to the relation between starting and sprinting, an interesting fact has come to light. It will be remembered that T. R. Fearing is a middle and long distance runner of the highest possibilities, and that he is one of the strongest candidates at present for the Harvard 'Varsity crew. Nevertheless, in a sprint race he "breaks at thirty yards, when his stride goes to pieces obviously, the difference in his strides being even audible to men ahead of him in the race; and, though a quick starter, he is from this point as much out of a sprint race as Green and Harding are at seventy-five yards. With regard to Harding, too, it will be remembered that he is an excellent man for the twotwenty-yard hurdle race. Accordingly, though jumping and running do not seem to be incompatible, starting and sprinting may be. At any rate, the problem here suggested is of extreme interest scientifically and of no slight importance to the athletic trainer.

I should point out, in conclusion, that the illustration of E. B. Bloss, on page 153, of my article in OUTING for May, is of that gentleJOHN CORBIN.

man in the theoretical start.”

BASEBALL.

THE scheme of the recent National Intercollegiate baseball series at Chicago has been severely censured. It has been called a sideshow to the World's Fair, got up more for gate money than in the interest of amateur sport. It has been urged that for the colleges to accept their expenses of the Chicago Management was a decided step towards professionalism; and that if such a championship was held, it ought for this reason to have been managed by the colleges themselves. Beyond question there is a kernel of truth in each of these charges. Yet I am inclined to think that, as the series resulted, it did no harm to amateur baseball. The fact that it was a side-show to the World's Fair was by no means against it, provided that it was not identified with any of the catchpenny side-shows; and in point of fact it paid so poorly that the managers were hard pressed to raise the money to hold the deciding game of the series. As for the management, it takes two to make a professional bargain; and as yet there is no reason to suspect either Mr. Stagg and his supporters or the colleges competing. Finally, in view of the fact that the colleges have never yet shown themselves able to manage even their private series peaceably, it appears an act of public spirit for an outsider to conduct a national tournament. The most valid objection, it seems to me, has yet to be raised, namely, that unless a large number of representative teams entered, the championship should not have been held. The absence of Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan was a very serious flaw.

The defects of the tournament are accordingly of a doubtful or negative kind. Not so with its virtues. The champions of the South have met and defeated their rivals of the West; and though the leading nine of the East was absent, both Yale and Amherst defeated all opponents from outside of New England. Thus the supremacy of the East is established beyond a doubt. This fact is in itself, of course, of minor importance; but to the true sportsman there is no incentive like square defeat; and it will be strange if the rising athletic spirit of the West and South is not aroused to the utmost. And now that the idea of such a championship series has been broached and put in practice, however feebly, it will not fail to suggest itself again at the first opportunity; and in the light of the experience of the present season cannot fail of a far better realization. Not that an annual national championship is possible or even desirable. Far be it from any true lover of sport to increase the already too jealous rivalry of American colleges. All that I look for is now and then a series of games, like the one just