Plain Directions For Acquiring The Art Of Shooting On The Wing

With Useful Hints concerning all that relates to Guns and Shooting, particularly in regard to the art of loading so as to kill. To which has been added several valuable and hitherto secret recipes, of great practical importance to the sportsman. - By An Old Gamekeeper. - 12mo, cloth.............75 cents.

This book contains a novel and most valuable feature found in no other work on this subject. This is a series of graduated lessons by which the self-taught young sportsman is enabled to advance step by step from such easy marks as a sheet of paper nailed on a fence to the most difficult trap-shooting and the sharpest snap-shots.

The Pistol As A Weapon Of Defence, In The House And On The Road

12mo, cloth. ... 50 cents.

This work aims to instruct peaceable and law-abiding citizens in the best means of protecting themselves from the attacks of the brutal and the lawless, and it is the only practical book published on this subject. Its contents are as follows :-

The Pistol as a Weapon of Defence-The Carrying of Firearms-Different kinds of Pistols in Market-How to Choose a Pistol-Ammunition, different kinds: powder, caps, bullets, copper cartridges, &c-Best form of Bullet-How to Load-Best Charge for Pistols-How to Regulate the Charge-Care of the Pistol: how to clean it-How to Handle and Carry the Pistol-How to Learn to Shoot-Practical Use of the Pistol-How to Protect Yourself and Disable your Antagonist.

Chemical History Of The Six Days Of Creation

By John Phin, author of "How to Use the Microscope," etc. 12rao, cloth.................75 cents.

In this volume an attempt is made to trace the evolution of our globe from the primeval state of nebulous mist, "without form and void," and existing in "darkness," or with an entire absence of the manifestation of the physical forces, to the condition in which it was fitted to become the habitation of man. While the statements and conclusions are rigidly scientific, it gives some exceedingly novel views of a rather hackneyed subject.

The Sun: A Familiar Description Of His Phenomena

By Rev. Thomas William Webb, M.A., F.R.A.S., author of "Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes."-With numerous illustrations. - 12mo, cloth...........40 cents.

This work gives, in a delightfully popular style, an account of the most recent discoveries in regard to the sun. It is freely illustrated.