SPORTS BOOKS

With the summer weather come thoughts of outdoors ... and outdoor sports.  So volunteers spent some time this week looking for Bullis books on that subject.  Here's what we found.

For those of you interested in activities for young men, we suggest you take a look at:

Athletic Sports and Recreations for Boys

by J. G. Wood, 

published in London & New York,  Routledge & Warren, 1861

However, if you're an adult who likes the outdoors, you might want to spend some time with these books, the first of which was written by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains

by Theodore Roosevelt

published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905 (c. 1885)

Wild Northern Scenes: or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod

by S. H. Hammond

published in Philadelphia by John E. Potter & Co, 1863

And for those of you who are very adventuresome, this may be the book for you.

Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries, during

four years' wanderings in the wilds of  southwestern Africa.

by Karl Johann Andersson

published in New York by Harper & Brothers, 1856

Happy reading!  

War of 1812

Yesterday we received notice of a Bicentennial Symposium on the War of 1812 in Oswego NY .  And we started wondering what materials we might have in the Bullis Book Collection that were on that topic.  To our surprise there were several.  They will be on display in our Bullis display case.  One of them includes the transcript of Major-General James Wilkinson's trial on charges of neglect of duty and unofficer-like conduct.  He has included that in his 3 volume Memoirs of my own times.  Another is Thomas Wilson's The Biography of American Military and Naval Heroes.  In this little two volume set you will find the biography of the "Hero of Lake Erie", Captain Oliver Hazard Perry.  Theodore Roosevelt has written two volumes titled The Naval War of 1812.  Willis J. Abbot has a wonderful book titled The Naval History of the United States with 150 illustrations.  The above photo is from that book. Lieut.-General Winfield Scott had a long military career which is written about in Mansfield's The Life and Military Services of Lieut.-General Winfield Scot.  There's a great drawing of him tearing down the British flag at Fort George.  In Lossing's A Centennial Edition of the History of the United States(1876) we have an engraving of Perry on Lake Erie.  In another of Lossing's books, The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 (1868), we find more info on Major-General James Wilkinson , lots of engravings, and good information.  In another book, Mastery Units in American History (1936) by Maurice B. Rovner, we find a really concise explanation of the War of 1812.  We also found that the student who owned this book had class on Monday morning and that "Washington said to stay out of all permanent alliances" (a pencil notation on the title page.)  A tourism book by Silliman, A Gallop Among American Scenery (1881), takes us to the Battle of Lundy's Lane.  It appears that General Scott was there.
 So if you would care to visit these will all be on display, along with the invitation to the Symposium and "The War of 1812: A Bicentennial Resource List" by Preston Pierce, the Regional Archivist for the Rochester (NY) Regional Library Council. 

THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY

This week, volunteers put together a new display in the case outside the Bullis Room., display celebrating diversity and suggesting that viewers resolve to read a variety of new topics and discover new authors in the coming new year. Some of our suggestions are:

Rupert, by the Grace of God

the Story of an Unrecorded plot set forth by Will Fortesque

Edited and revised by Dora Greenwell McChesney, published in 1899

Two Little Savages

Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

Written by Ernest Thompson Seton, published in 1917.

Thomas Hart Benton--American Statesman

Written by Theodore Roosevelt, published in 1886.

Hugh Wynne--Free Quaker

Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington

Written by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D.L.L.D.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Written by Charles Dickens

Birds Every Child Should Know

Written by Hamilton Wright Mabie, published in 1917

Over the Teacups

Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, published in 1891

Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians

Edited by M. G. Humphreys, published 1913

The Religions of the Ancient World

Written by George Rawlinson, M.A., published 1883