A book of winter sports; an attempt to catch the spirit of the keen joys of the winter season;

• Main Authors: Dier, J. C., ed., Dier, J. C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: New York, The Macmillan Company 1912
• Subjects: Winter sports; Archibald; Bleue; Dickens; Doyle; Dyer; Fenton; Hayward; Holmenkollen; Indian; Kerr; Knowles; Lorna; Norway; Sumner; Sutherland; Vance; Winkle; glacier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn5w2g

Skiing -- -- "The wooden wings of Norway" / J.C.D. -- The Olympic games of the north / J.W. Schreiner -- Ski-jumping in the Holmenkollen games / M. Edmund Spencer -- A ski-löbner who became famous / M. Edmund Spencer -- Long-distance runs on ski / Mme. von Thiele -- Old ways and new / H.K. Daniels -- A practical lesson in ski-running / Daniel P. Rhodes -- Crossing an Alpine pass on ski / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Carrying mail over the Andes on ski / J.W. Wisby -- An American ski tournament / Sumner W. Matteson -- Skiing resorts / Compiled -- -- Tobogganing -- -- Memories of a boy-time winter / Emery Pottle -- Coasting / Compiled -- The togoggan / W.A.D. -- A primitive coaster / Jean N. McIlwraith -- Tobogganing as a sport / J.C. Allen and J.T. Bailey -- A practical toboggan chute / Walter A. Dyer -- The Klosters course at Davos / A. Pitcairn Knowles -- The "Cresta" run at St. Moritz / A. Pitcairn Knowles -- Tobogganing on a Swiss glacier / Margaret Symonds -- Togogganing by moonlight / John Addington Symonds -- Ships of the north / William T. Allison -- -- Sleighing -- -- King Winter in his city home / Leon Vandervort -- The cariole of the provinces -- The white carnival / Vance Thompson -- Sledging on the Névsky Prospékt in winter / Isabel F. Hapgood -- The sledges of Moscow / H. Sutherland Edwards -- Sledge-posting in Switzerland / John Addington Symonds -- The Norwegian smalslœde / Mme. von Thiele -- Bringing Lorna home / R.D. Blackmore -- -- Other Ice and Snow Sports -- -- An ice gymkhana at Davos / Daniel P. Rhodes -- American Indian snow-skates / Stewart Culin -- Ice shuffleboard / F.L. Cooper -- The ice carnival / Edwin Wildman -- Fête de nuit in Montreal / E. Way Elkington -- Mr. Pickwick's famous slide / Charles Dickens -- Children's games on the snow and ice / J.C.D. Ice-Motoring and Ice-Yachting -- -- A new winter sport / Compiled -- Ice-streaking / C.B. Hayward -- Real speed and afety / C.B. Hayward -- Motor sleds on Saranac Lake / Scientific American -- Ice-yachting / The Saturday review -- Ice-yact sailing and racing / Archibald Rogers -- How to build a sixth-class ice-yacht / J. Sterling Bird -- The birth of the scooter / J.W. Muller -- Building a scooter / J.W. Muller -- -- Skating -- -- The rudiments of skating / William T. Richardson -- Skating in 1180 / FitzStephen -- Mr. Winkle on the ice / Charles Dickens -- Skating for the Little Bear at Grindelwald / Daniel P. Rhodes -- Figure skating / J.C.D. -- Valsing on the ice / Ernest Law -- The points of valsing form / Ernest law -- Humors of skating / Reginald Cleaver -- Skating in Holland / Eduard de Amicis -- Skate-sailing / J.C.D. -- -- Ice Hockey -- -- The home of winter sport / W. George Beers -- The Canadian national game / Charles Patterson -- "Playing the puck" / J.C. Allen -- The rules of the game of ice-hockey / Compiled -- -- Curling -- -- The game of curling / Christopher North -- The general rules of the game of curling -- The curler word / Timothy Twist -- The skip / Rev. John Kerr -- The jolly curlers / James Hogg -- The humors of curling / Rev. John Kerr -- The point game / Rev. John Kerr -- A curler's elegy / Robert Burns -- -- Snow-Shoeing -- -- The key to the winter forest / Hamilton Wright Mabie -- A snoe-shoe run / Jean N. McIlwraith -- The snow-shoeing costume / Compiled -- A novice on snow-shoes / Harold J. Howland -- In the caribou country / Edwin Sandys -- On snow-shoes among snow-slides / Arthur Hewitt -- Snow-shoe picknicking / L.D. Sherman -- The activities of a snow-shoe club / J.C.D. -- Storming the ice fort / Faith Fenton -- "The old tuque bleue" / W.C. Beers -- Mode of access: Internet.