Vol 5, No 5

Articles in this issue

• The Mont Blanc of Our Switzerland (opens in a new tab)

  J. R. W. Hitchcock describes the trek from Wilkeson to the Puyallup glaciers of Mount Tacoma: a rail and wagon approach, a camp and night among wasps, Crater Lake, a near-fatal scramble down a cañon wall to the North Puyallup glacier and the South Fork ice-cave, with the mountain set against the Alps.
• A Glow-worm (opens in a new tab)

  Frank Dempster Sherman's poem addresses a glow-worm found in the grass beside a dusty road at night, asking whether it is a beacon for insect ships or a star dropped from the summer sky.
• Out-Door Life in Louisiana (opens in a new tab)

  Norman Walker surveys sport around New Orleans: the swamp wilderness, a yachting cruise from the Southern yacht club to the Chandeleurs and the Florida coast, duck and snipe shooting at Barataria, trout and red-fish fishing, torch-lit alligator hunting, fox-hunting in the Florida parishes, and raquette, base-ball and rowing.
• The Luck of Canadarago Camp (opens in a new tab)

  A Country Parson's idyll of a fishing outing on Canadarago Lake near Cooperstown, New York: the Senior M.E. and Sir George ride out, fish with the boatman 'Old Blimpkins', hear the legend of the Sunken Isle, and celebrate a romance that begins when the Senior's grandson Charlie rides up with a girl with raven hair.
• His Majesty's Ultimatum (opens in a new tab)

  Louise Stockton's story of Hildegarde Allison, her cousin Ralph and Conrad Weber among the Fijian islands, where the chief Sanoa holds the party at Mbau and insists that Hildegarde marry before they may leave, after she has rescued a woman from a ritual burial alive.
• Matin (opens in a new tab)

  Minna Caroline Smith's poem sung by a rider on a three-wheel, who speeds through dew-kissed woodland roads as the moon fades and the east brightens toward dawn.
• Down the Merrimac (opens in a new tab)

  K. C. Atwood narrates the Pelicans' three-day canoe cruise from Lake Winnipiseogee down the Merrimac, past Lake Village, Laconia and Tilton, through the rapids and over Sewell's Falls to Garvin's Falls and home to Manchester in heat of 98 degrees.
• Tangle-leaf Papers. III (opens in a new tab)

  Maurice Thompson's essay on out-door verse runs from Virgil and Chaucer through Emerson, Whitman, Lanier, Swinburne and Edgar Fawcett, and asks why no Southern poet has yet caught the warm, fruitful life of the South.
• How to Construct a Model Yacht (opens in a new tab)

  R. B. Forbes gives practical instructions for a 25-inch pine model sloop: hollowing the hull, fitting the deck and mast, a leaded keel, a hardwood rudder and tiller, the boom and gaff, the rigging and cotton sails, and the cockpit and bitts.
• By Wheel to the Hub (opens in a new tab)

  Veracity's humorous account of a June 1884 bicycle trip from New Haven to Boston by Veracity, the Inebriate, Sprite, Goggles and No. 4, through deep sand, a broken handle-bar, and the Worcester baggage quarrel that lands Sprite and No. 4 in the police cells.
• A Song of the Breeze (opens in a new tab)

  Charles Richards Dodge's poem sung in the voice of the wind, which chases gulls and dolphins over the sea, kisses a fair girl, sweeps the meadows and the ripening harvest, and leaves a wheelman climbing the hill.
• Snow-shoeing in Canada (opens in a new tab)

  John C. Martin describes Montreal's snow-shoe clubs and their weekly tramps: the Snow-shoer's Retreat on Mount Royal, the leader and whipper-in on a night run of twelve miles, the bouncing of novices, the club colours and tuques, the Molly Bawns' mixed club, and Lewiston, Maine's first United States club.
• The First Froste (opens in a new tab)

  Paul Pastnor's short poem in mock-archaic spelling compares the first white frost on the earth to the pride of a sweetheart, who keeps her once-dared kiss out of reach.
• Editor's Open Window (opens in a new tab)

  The editorial column argues that the present is better than the past, quoting the St. James's Gazette's 'Ballade of Contentment' and Constance Fenimore Woolson's East Angels, then turns to the brutality of college football, Dr. Dudley Sargent's lecture on professional athletics, and the case for a Boston canoe-cruising club.
• Glances at Our Letter-File (opens in a new tab)

  Correspondence on model yacht clubs and regatta committees, a mocking reply to a Tribune editorial on 'lawn-tennis elbow' with a list of bicycle complaints, A. E. Hammer on skate-sailing, L. B. Graves's Kennebec tour of July 1884 (151 miles by cyclometer), and 'Buck' on the New York Canoe Club's dinner at Miss Parloa's cooking school.
• Among the Books (opens in a new tab)

  Unsigned reviews of Julian Hawthorne's Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, W. H. Bishop's Choy Susan, Hugh Conway's Bound Together, Clinton Scollard's Pictures in Song, the Concord lectures on Emerson, Alfred J. Church's Roman Life in the Days of Cicero, Hamerton's Human Intercourse, Sidney Lanier's Poems and Melville's In the Lena Delta.
• Our Monthly Record (opens in a new tab)

  A monthly round-up in sub-sections: bicycling (a January Bermuda excursion, the Massachusetts Club's new house, Harry D. Corey on English tracks, Ormiston refused Central Park privileges by the C.T.C., Woodside's 50-mile record table, Pennell's Italian tour and Copland's Australian run), canoeing, fishing, shooting, tennis (Pettitt's stick match with Fiske Warren) and yachting.
• Amenities (opens in a new tab)

  Two light pieces: Edwin A. Start's poem 'Love One', in which a lady at a tennis court asks to be loved alone, and Captain Cuttle's 'The Mermaiden Marina', in which a sea-king's daughter rides a bicycle with dolphins at the treadles until a witch's spell sends her off for ever.
• The Publisher's Basket (opens in a new tab)

  Publisher's notices: subscription and advertising terms, the 1885 Volume IV binding, the Mont Blanc photographs by O. C. Yocum of Portland, the coming Oliver canoe cruise and Thomas Stevens's Across America on a Bicycle, the Florida Annual and a run of advertising puffs.