The Portland daily press., 1886-07-21
DOES THE DOG RETURN TO HIS WON'T
Charleston IS. CA News and Courier
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

How to Handle and Edncate Vicious
Horses, together with Hints on the Training
and Health of Dogs. By Oscar R. Gleason
(New York: Orange Judd & Coz. Mr..
Gleason is the man who gained so much no.
toriety last winter by his exhibitions of
horse training in New York. He has had
long experience in the management of
horses, and this work contains the
deductions from that experience. The
work is practical one and the
directions can be readily understood and en-
forced by an ordinary person. Rules for
curing all sorts of tricks to which the horse
is addicted are given, and there are some
sensible remarks on the general management
of horses and on their diseases. The book
ought to be in the hands of every man who
deals with horsefesh.
The American Salmon Fisherman. By
Henry p. Wells, author of Fly Rods and Fly
Tackle New York: Harper & Brothers;
cortland Loring, Short & HARMONY. This
work is especially addressed to the novice
in salmon fishing, though the veteran will
probably find good many hints in it that
will not come amiss. 1t contains a list and
maps of the rivers where salmon may be
found, directions for the selection or manu-
facture of rods. reels and gait; what kinds of
flies are best and howthey should be thrown;
and the way to land the salmon after he is
Fastened The directions are clear and ex-
plicit and the book should be at the head of
the list of the outfit of the salmon fisherman
1t is profusely illustrated.
The Percheron Horse in America, by M.
C. Weld. In France, by Charles Du Hays.
New York: Orange Judd Coz Probably
the Percheron breed of horses has no superb
or as draft horses in the world. A great
many of them have been imported into this
country already, and every year the number
increases. M. Du Hays's work ON this ami
NAL was first published in 1868 and a great
many editions of it have been issued since
that time and proved of great service to the
draft horse production of this country. In
the volumes before us Mr. Hays's work is
prefaced by a brief history of the introduce
ton of the Percheron horse into the United
States, by M. C.sWeld.
The Fergus Printing Company of Chicago
has issued a neat volume containing a dis
course on the Dearborns delivered ON the
occasion of the eighteenth anniversary of the
occupation of Fort Dearborn and the first
settlement of Chicago before the Chicago
Historical Society, by Daniel Goodwin, Jr.,
with remarks by Hons. John Wentw orth, j.
Young Scammon, E. B. Washburn, and l. N.
Arnold. The discourse is accompanied with
portraits of Gen. Henry Dearborn. The vol
ume also contains an address before the
Bostonan Society, in the Council Chamber
of the Old State House on May II, 1886, by
Daniel Goodwin Jr., entitled Provin cial Pic
lures by Brush and Pen.
The Yachtsnan's Guide, by Capt. Howard
Patterson, instructor in navigation in the
New York Navigation School should be in
the hands of every yachtsman. 1t contains
great amount of information, well classified
and arranged and of a practical character.
Everything that yachtsman need to know
for the successful navigation of his craft he
can find in this book. By no means the least
important part of the work is that relating
to yacht discipline contained in part third.
The price of the book is $3.
Recent volumes in Harper's Handy Series
are Alton Locke, by Charles Kingsley; Gym
ic Fortune, A Tale of a Man with a Con
science, by D. Christie Murray, author of
First Person Singular; The Open Air, by
Richard Jeffries; and A Daughter of the
Gods, by James Stanley. In Harpers
Franklin Square Library the latest number
is War and Peace, An Historical Novel, by
Count Leon Tolstoi For saleaby Loring,
Short &;Harmon.)
Book of Mock Trials. By J. p. Ritter, Jr.,
and William T. Call. New York: Excelsi-
or Publishing House) The book contains
fifteen original examples of humorous court
scenes, adapted to performance by amateurs
or professionals. All these trials, the au-
thors tell us, are founded on actual occur
rences in the courts Of this country. Many
of them are very funny, and in proper hands
can be made to furnish a very interesting
evenings entertainment,
Shore Life in Song, by William Hale bid
deford, printed at the Biddeford Journal Of
fee, is collection of short poems by Mr.
Hale, mostly ON the sea or ON matters per-
tanning thereto. Many of them sing the
praises of charming and romantic spots along
our Maine coast. AS a rule they are of more
than ordinary merit, and some of them de-
serve a wide circulation.
Recent volumes in CasselPs National Lii
brary are Egypt and Scythia. described by
Herodotus; Hamlet; Nature and Art, by
VIM. Inchbald; and Voyagers' Tales, from
The Collection of Richard Hakluyt. (For
sale by Loring, Short & Harmon).