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SENIOR, William, (pseud. Red Spinner), and others.

Pike and perch, with chapter on cookery by A. I. Shand. 1900. (Fur and feather series.)..

SHAND, Alexander Innes.

Shooting. 1902. (Haddon hall library.)

.799 S47

.799 S52

Grouse, hares, partridges, pheasants, roes and rabbits, snipe and wood-
cock, and wild-fowl are treated in separate chapters, and one chapter
each is devoted to rough shooting and mixed bags, poaching, and the
preparation of game for the table.

SMITH, Thomas, master of hounds.

Life of a fox; written by himself, and Extracts from the
Diary of a huntsman. 1896.....

.799 S66

Two famous old hunting books by one of the first and most remarkable
of English fox-hunters. The "Life of a fox" (1843) purports to give
the experiences of foxes in different English hunting counties. The
"Diary of a huntsman" (1838) is a practical survey of all subjects
connected with the chase. Illustrations by the author and colored
plates.

THORNTON, Thomas.

.799 T41

Sporting tour through the northern parts of England and
great part of the Highlands of Scotland. 1896....
Description of a tour undertaken about 1786, in which the author, a re-
markable sportsman, divided his time between hunting, shooting,
angling and hawking. Many illustrations, including some from the
original edition.

WALSINGHAM, Thomas de Grey, baron, & Gallwey, Sir R. W.

Payne-.

Shooting. 2v. 1893-95. (Badminton library.).....

V.I. Field and covert.

V.2. Moor and marsh.

WALTON, Izaak, & Cotton, Charles.

.799 W18

Complete angler. 2v. 1892....

.799 W19

The same.

2v. 1892.....

.1799 W19

Was the first useful treatise on fishing published in England (1653), but
it owes its immortality to its fine literary qualities and to its revela-
tion of the delightful personality of the author.

.799 W 49

WELLS, Henry Parkhurst.

American salmon fisherman. 1886....
Fly-rods and fly-tackle; suggestions as to their manufacture
and use. 1901

.799 W49f

"An encyclopædia in its kind...the authority on its subject [1901]... Tells
us how hooks, rods, reels, lines, flies, and so forth, are made, and lays
down the principles that ought to govern...our choice of them...The
text is plentifully sprinkled with cuts... of the purely illustrative and
useful sort... No angler, however experienced, need fancy that he can
find nothing new in this suggestive (and not too big) book." Dial,
1901.

WHISHAW, Frederick J.

Out of doors in Tsarland; a record of the seeings and doings of a wanderer in Russia. 1893...

Hunting and fishing adventures and entertaining sketches of Russian
life, without mention of politics, nihilism or exile.

..799 W62

.799 W76

WILSON, John, (pseud. Christopher North).
Christopher in his sporting jacket. 1901.

WOLLEY, Clive Phillipps-, and others.

Big game shooting. 2v. 1895. (Badminton library.) . . . . . . ...799 W84

Bibliography, v.2, p.421-424.

YALE, Leroy Milton, and others.

Angling. 1896.....

799 Y13

Contents: Yale, L. M. Getting out the fly books.-Yale, L. M. &

Creighton, J. G. A.

Land of the winanishe.-Macdonough, A. R.
Nepigon river fishing.-Higgins, A. F. Striped bass fishing.-Holder,
C. F. Haunts of the black sea-bass.-Grant, Robert. Tarpon fishing
in Florida.-Yale, L. M. American game fishes.-Cargil, Alexander.
Izaak Walton.

Appeared in "Scribner's magazine," 1889-94.

799.3 Archery

ASCHAM, Roger.

Toxophilus. 1545. (In Arber, Edward, ed. English re-
prints. 1868-71. v.I.)......
....r820.8 A66 v.I

"Dialogue, inculcating the necessity of cultivating the art of archery as
an exercise at once pleasant and patriotic. But its real object is to
show the learning of the author, and his power of managing a dialogue
in the Platonic manner." Craik's English prose.

LONGMAN, Charles James, & Walrond, H.

Archery. 1894. (Badminton library.).

Bibliography, p.472-503.

THOMPSON, Maurice.

.799.3 L83

Witchery of archery. 1879...

.799.3 T38

Historical and practical information on the subject, with a chapter on
English archery practice.

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