Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol 61, No 411
Articles in this issue
- A monthly calendar of forthcoming sporting events and results across the range of field sports covered by the magazine.
- A practical article on artificial trout propagation and the management of fish hatcheries for sporting estates.
- A historical and prospective essay on the game of billiards, tracing its development and speculating on its future as a pastime.
- A biographical portrait of Colonel Sir John Hardy Thursby, presented with an engraved likeness in the magazine's regular series of prominent sporting figures.
- An essay exploring the art and principles of carriage driving as a sport and pastime.
- The first in a series of essays using the cricket field as a setting for reflections on sporting character and the spirit of amateurism.
- A travel and fishing essay describing angling experiences on a Norwegian lake.
- A piece accompanied by a steel engraving, likely a portrait study or profile of a notable horse or sporting figure named Touchstone.
- A discursive natural history essay questioning whether trout learn from experience and become more wary after being fished over repeatedly.
- A poem evoking the life of the western American frontier and the spirit of broncho riding.
- A sporting anecdote or short story describing a close call in the field.
- A commentary on current affairs within the cycling world, likely touching on club governance, road rights, or racing disputes of the early 1890s.
- A survey of racehorses whose careers were marked by misfortune, injury, or repeated near-misses despite their talent.