Vol 4, No 3

Articles in this issue

• Hull and Her Flotilla (opens in a new tab)

  Arthur Hooper Dodd's illustrated account of Hull, Massachusetts: its fishing past and Telegraph Hill, the Hull Yacht Club founded in 1880 and grown to 480 members, its Corinthian rule, the classes of yacht, and the Ladies' Day regatta and ball.
• Miss Sparrow's Husband (opens in a new tab)

  Sophie Swett's story of a fastidious spinster of Cherryfield who has long imagined a lost lover, Eben Sutton, while her maid Marthy Arabella reads tea-grounds and Dr. Bartley presses his proposal; a tin-peddler calling himself Eben Sutton appears, and Miss Sparrow confesses the match is for little Nellie.
• The Great Canada Bicycle Tour. Part II (opens in a new tab)

  L. J. Bates's second instalment of the Grand Tour from London, Ontario through Goderich, Bayfield, Hamilton and Toronto to Lewiston, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, with storm-bound days, a walked hill near Ancaster, a train run to Brantford, the injuries of the riders, and a conclusion on the wheel as a touring carriage.
• An Old Boy's Canoe (opens in a new tab)

  An Old Boy's advice to middle-aged men on the decked canoe: swimming and sleeping out in it, a winter trip down the Ohio and Mississippi, the choice of a 14 to 16 foot river canoe, and a sailing canoe's handling in squalls with centre-boards, reefing and live ballast.
• The Modern Knight-Errant (opens in a new tab)

  Sarah D. Hobart's poem of a rider speeding along a road at sunset and on into the evening, over a rustic bridge, through hazel glades and by vespers-hour meadows, in search of what adventures and wrongs the night may bring.
• En Province à Cheval Mécanique. Part I (opens in a new tab)

  James C. Hume's account of taking his bicycle down the Rhône by steamer from Lyons to Valence, meeting an Englishman who has forgotten his own tongue in a Provençal wine-shop, and riding through a dog-ridden village and a hostile inn to Avignon, Vaucluse and the broken bridge; to be continued.
• Come, Archer, Come (opens in a new tab)

  Samuel Minturn Peck's poem calling the archer to bend his bow at dawn in the woods, where Robin Hood wandered in Sherwood forest and the blossoming woods still offer a rapture no king can know.
• Summer Sweethearts (opens in a new tab)

  Chapters XIX to XXII of Maurice Thompson's serial: Nelville declares his love to Louise Lamar in the woods with Miss Brownby watching; Lamar, fearing that Louis Abbott is dead, finds Longley grieving in the wood; Oliver Mosely confronts Longley over Janet Wilson's supposed kiss; and Longley, learning the kisser was Mosely, declares his own love to Janet.
• Out-Door Life at the National Academy Exposition (opens in a new tab)

  J. R. W. Hitchcock's walk through the spring exhibition of the National Academy of Design as a substitute for out-door life, with fishing, shore, mountain, western and sporting pictures by Bridgman, Moran, Homer, Richards, Whittredge, Beard and others, and Hitchcock's jibes at the picturesque and at the woodchuck hunt.
• A Naturalist in Florida (opens in a new tab)

  E. P. Larkin's February 1884 collecting trip from New York to Fernandina and Amelia Island, past shell-heaps, Fort Caroline ruins and Indian mounds on the St. John's, with Florida Crackers, and the cruise of the sloop Ella down the west coast, ending with the sloop beached on Sanibel in a March gale.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  The editorial department: the League of American Wheelmen's divisive year and its annual meeting at Washington, bicycling and canoeing as democratic sports, the Elwell case that let bicycles brought from abroad pass free of duty, the bill for compulsory steam-yacht pilotage, and the Harvard bicycle races restricted to invited guests.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Readers' letters: 'Nixs Mate' on length measurement against sail-area rules for yachts, H. B. Stephens on camping and trout-fishing in the Laurentides lakes of Quebec by buckboard and canoe, and an unsigned account of the ride from Zürich to Lucerne over the Albis hills.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Reviews of Thomas Hutchinson's diary, Henry Cabot Lodge's Studies in History on colonialism, Albert G. Browne's Growing Power of the Republic of Chili, Mellen Chamberlain's John Adams, Dobson's and Lang's Ballades and Verses Vain, Scribner's Stories by American Authors, and the Tricyclist's Vade Mecum for 1884.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  The department of club news and sport: photographic associations, athletics and lacrosse, the Chicago club's Niagara-to-Boston tour, bicycle club officers across America and Canada, a Nashville ordinance against bicycles that was rejected, English racing and the N.C.U. amateur rule, canoe clubs, Pullman buffet cars, rowing, fish-culture and yachting.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  Light verse and drawing: 'A Tale of Woe', a Scots-dialect poem signed F. F. M. about a laddie who rides to the Dee to win his lassie and is killed by a cauld auld header, and the drawing 'A Dream ... after the First Day on the Road', a sleeping rider dreaming of bicycle mishaps.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  The magazine's own notices: subscription and advertising terms ($2 a year), the 'Our Field' statement that Outing is the literature of out-of-doors, a reader's letter from New Bloomfield, the London office at 98 Fleet Street, and advertisements for the Prospect Park Hotel at Catskill and sporting goods.