Vol 4, No 5

Articles in this issue

• Art in August (opens in a new tab)

  Charles E. Pratt's poem on midsummer art: the pull of wheels and feet, cool sea breezes, schooners and marshes, and art and the heart meeting in August.
• Tricycling Trips in Tokio (opens in a new tab)

  Frank S. Dobbins rides a tricycle around Tokio: the jinrikisha and the streets, Asakusa temple and its toy-shops, the Uyeno temples, the Mikado's bamboo garden, the Shiba tombs, the Kameido plum garden and the Sengakuji grave of the forty-seven Ronin.
• A Strange Idyl. Part I (opens in a new tab)

  Arlo Bates opens his serial: at Glencarleon on Long Island Sound, Columbine Dysart nurses a shipwrecked stranger who has lost his memory, and who recalls only that he is called Tom.
• Swiftly We Fly (opens in a new tab)

  James Clarence Harvey's poem to the cycle: a rider and his steel steed speed through woods and corn-fields, racing squirrels and sunbeams.
• Yachting around Cape Cod (opens in a new tab)

  Sarah Leslie describes a cabin cruise in the schooner Idler from Boston past Minot's Ledge, through fog to Provincetown, the Race Point, Highland and Nauset lights, a Hyannis squall, Edgartown and Tarpaulin Cove.
• A Run in Rhode Island (opens in a new tab)

  H. P. recounts a ride by two students from Providence over Gaspee Point and the Squantum shore to Warren and Bristol, a dog chase, a ferry across to Rhode Island and a visit to the Herreshoff works, ending in Newport.
• A Homeward Cruise (opens in a new tab)

  Charles A. Neide tells the canoe fleet's return from the Stony Lake camp: down the Otonabee to Peterborough, Rice Lake, Belleville and the Bay of Quinte, the St. Lawrence and Thousand Islands, Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain, to Ticonderoga and Lake George.
• In Maiden Scorn (opens in a new tab)

  Harold Van Santvoord's rondo: a maiden who scorned a suitor a year ago, Cupid's arrow at sunset among apple blossoms, and a heart that now beats no more.
• The Shaybacks in Camp. Part I (opens in a new tab)

  S. J. Barrows describes the Shayback family's summer camps on Lake Memphremagog: Owl's Head and the Elephantis, the shipping of tents and stores to Georgeville, the Eden of a family camp, and the daily round of cooking, boats and bathing.
• An Unlucky Trip (opens in a new tab)

  H. B. Stephens's ride by bicycle from Montreal along the St. Lawrence to Three Rivers, the old forges, a forest fire near St. Etienne where he is thrown into hot ashes, and a bear and caribou hunt from Perch Lake that ends with a broken arm.
• Scraping Acquaintance with the Birds (opens in a new tab)

  Bradford Torrey's essay on learning birds after a robin on Boston Common, with the redstart, yellow-crowned thrush, veery, winter wren, white-eyed vireo, red-headed woodpecker and the birds of Washington.
• Polyphemus (opens in a new tab)

  Forsitan's story of a windy picnic at N where the owner of the giant 'Polyphemus' wheel rigs a barge into a sail, and of the narrator's night ride home downhill in a gale, a near collision with the wreck and a fall in front of his own house.
• Quatrains (opens in a new tab)

  William H. Hayne's two short poems, 'The Mocking-Bird', the tuneful optimist of April, and 'The Owl', the winged pessimist of the evening.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  Editorial department: 'Purpose in Recreation' on the camera as a means of studying nature, 'Cruising Boats' against racing-rig yachts in favour of safety and comfort, and paragraphs on the rise of the tricycle, the summer exodus and railways that welcome wheelmen.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Correspondence department: C. L. Norton on a spring foot-steering gear for canoes, Edmund Boviere on boys in Burlington bicycle clubs, Nessmuk's letter on the coming summer, G. A. Long on an 1763 hand-propelled velocipede in Northfield, Mass., and B. H. W. on a tricycle livery at summer resorts.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Reviews: Dr. J. T. Rothrock's 'Vacation Cruising' on Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, Mrs. Elizabeth Karr's 'The American Horsewoman', recent fiction (Crawford's 'A Roman Singer', Kirk's 'A Midsummer Madness', Stockton's stories and others) and F. Warner Jones's 'A Treatise on the Tricycle'.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  Department of club and sport news: amateur photography, athletics (the Harvard-Columbia race and the New York Athletic Club regatta), bicycle and tricycle race meets and club runs from Boston, Chicago and Woodstock, Ontario, with reports from Berlin and Frankfurt, English long-distance records by H. R. Reynolds and E. Tegetmeier, canoe and yacht regattas, pleasure travel, shooting, fishing and tennis.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  Department: a masthead plate with four Bellew cartoons, 'Red-Hot Balls, and How to Take Them' (the baseball catch), and Henry Baldwin's dialogue poem 'The Walking-Leaf' between Mollie and Jack on a botany walk.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  Department of publisher's notes: subscription and advertising terms, an invitation to the Boston office, a St. Lawrence guidebook, a call to club secretaries, reader praise of the July number and a preview of the September issue with Shaybacks Part II and A Strange Idyl Part II.