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EEVIEWS OF HEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the "Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Fields . ] Sporting Adventures in the New World . By Lieut . Campbell Hardy . Hurst and Blackett . 1855 . —The loyers of wild sport will
have a great treat in perusing Lieat . Hardy ' s interesting volumes . In a very modest preface , he disclaims all pretension to be a practised scribe ; his principal desire being , he says , to afford gratification to such brother sportsmen as feel pleasure in those amusements , and to describe a species of hunting very little known to Englishmen . Having made his notes on the spot , while everything was fresh in his memory , he has endowed his pictures with a life-like aspect seldom found in common books of adventure . He warns future travellers
not to be dismayed at the appearance of the country round Halifax , as the soil there is sterile and the vegetation stunted ; but about fifty miles farther , near the town of Windsor , the panorama is glorious . The land is well cultivated , and numerous herds of cattle are seen feeding on rich and flowery meadows . In many parts the ^ whole resembles a vast orchard . In some districts of Nova Scotia the
forests extend over thousands of square miles , intersected at intervals by a bush-road , and enlivened by a wayside inn . The trees in these woods are partly evergreens and partly deciduous ; one of the most beautiful is the hemlock , which grows more than a hundred feet in height , and is , as a rule , respected by the timber-merchant , ita bark being of great use in tanning . It generally grows in low and marshy situations .
On the rising grounds are vast groves of birch and maple , the bark of the latter being greatly in request among the natives for covering the frames of their canoes . Lieut . Hardy gives much valuable information on the resources of the country , its splendid timber , its game of all descriptions , and its lakes and rivers alive with fish . His canoe-voyage down the Uestigonche to the St . John river is well and
graphically described . He appears to have been delighted with the life he led in the woods , and its freedom from restraint , and speaks in enthusiastic terms of its exhilarating effects on the spirits . The icebound winter , the fresh spring , the fragrant summer , and the gloriously-tinted autumn , seem to have been equally enjoyed by him . All is written in a hearty spirit , free from pedantry and affectation . His account of camp life is delightful .
After trudging under our load through a swampy piece of ground , into which we sank every now and then up to our knees , we arrived at Paul's old camp , by the side of Ship Harbour Lake . No time could bo spared , for the camp wanted a good deal of ' fixin . ' Beds had to be picked and arranged , firewood cut , and a mass of snow which had fallen in through the top of the camp , shovelled
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Reviews Of New Books.
EEVIEWS OF HEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the "Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Fields . ] Sporting Adventures in the New World . By Lieut . Campbell Hardy . Hurst and Blackett . 1855 . —The loyers of wild sport will
have a great treat in perusing Lieat . Hardy ' s interesting volumes . In a very modest preface , he disclaims all pretension to be a practised scribe ; his principal desire being , he says , to afford gratification to such brother sportsmen as feel pleasure in those amusements , and to describe a species of hunting very little known to Englishmen . Having made his notes on the spot , while everything was fresh in his memory , he has endowed his pictures with a life-like aspect seldom found in common books of adventure . He warns future travellers
not to be dismayed at the appearance of the country round Halifax , as the soil there is sterile and the vegetation stunted ; but about fifty miles farther , near the town of Windsor , the panorama is glorious . The land is well cultivated , and numerous herds of cattle are seen feeding on rich and flowery meadows . In many parts the ^ whole resembles a vast orchard . In some districts of Nova Scotia the
forests extend over thousands of square miles , intersected at intervals by a bush-road , and enlivened by a wayside inn . The trees in these woods are partly evergreens and partly deciduous ; one of the most beautiful is the hemlock , which grows more than a hundred feet in height , and is , as a rule , respected by the timber-merchant , ita bark being of great use in tanning . It generally grows in low and marshy situations .
On the rising grounds are vast groves of birch and maple , the bark of the latter being greatly in request among the natives for covering the frames of their canoes . Lieut . Hardy gives much valuable information on the resources of the country , its splendid timber , its game of all descriptions , and its lakes and rivers alive with fish . His canoe-voyage down the Uestigonche to the St . John river is well and
graphically described . He appears to have been delighted with the life he led in the woods , and its freedom from restraint , and speaks in enthusiastic terms of its exhilarating effects on the spirits . The icebound winter , the fresh spring , the fragrant summer , and the gloriously-tinted autumn , seem to have been equally enjoyed by him . All is written in a hearty spirit , free from pedantry and affectation . His account of camp life is delightful .
After trudging under our load through a swampy piece of ground , into which we sank every now and then up to our knees , we arrived at Paul's old camp , by the side of Ship Harbour Lake . No time could bo spared , for the camp wanted a good deal of ' fixin . ' Beds had to be picked and arranged , firewood cut , and a mass of snow which had fallen in through the top of the camp , shovelled