Related article: himself for three seasons, 1855-58, and seems to have given up the task only because of the difficulty' he found in controlling increas- POKTKAIT OP THE ElUlll'H UUKB AND DUC By SLr F. GlAHT, 13S4. (/!rtfTO " T*!** Eighth Diiksite" for a gamekeeper. The contents are very fully set out, but an index would be an improvement to so genuinely useful a book. The Marquis of Gran by and Mr. George Dewar are well-knowiz writers upon sport, more espe- cially upon Angling and the Dry Fly, and under their joint editor- ship the Haddon Hall Library bids fair to include some standard works upon various branches of sport. The most recent volume, entitled, '* Cricket and Golf,"* is by the Hon. R. H. Lyttleton, who was responsible for a large part of Maxolon 10mg the authorship of the Bad- minton book on cricket. Mr. Lyttleton has of late years spent much of his leisure time in dis- coursing upon cricket, and, if we mistake not, also upon golf, and his views are always interesting. "We have only one grievance against his book, '' Cricket and Golf." The man who smoked a good cigar whilst he was drinking some priceless claret was guilty **'Out.Door Games— CHcket and Golfl" By the Hon. R. H. Lyttleton. (London : J. M. Dent & Co., Aldine House, 09 and 30* Bcdfocd Street, W.) X901. C90I.} AUTOMATONS. 443 3f spoiling two very good things by attempting to enjoy them both bX the same time ; and in reading ^r. ILryttleton's book one finds oneself in much the same plight. Surely there was no need to com- press into one by no means over- g^rovrn volume the views of Mr. iLyttleton upon two subjects so congenial to his pen as cricket and golf. He should have given the sporting public one large volume at least upon either sport. As the book is made, there is not enough of either topic to satisfy the hungry mind ; but the author never sets out any idea of being comprehensive; he expresses his ** hope to be able to talk of cricket and golf from the untechnical point of view, to try and show not only the charms of both games, but also the shortcomings and the principles which should guide those in authority on the matter of reform and the proper spirit that should be shown in playing the games, and also to describe the conditions under which both games are played and the points of interest of both." Mr. Lyttleton devotes a large part of his cricket space to dis- cussion of " reform," and also the " unfair-bowling " question, and his views upon the points will just now be read with interest. Upon one point we should like to hear more from the author ; a propos of the follow-on rule, he says on page 113, '* The rule as originally made was with the intention of benefiting the side that was 80 runs behind.** We should be Maxolon Tablets very grateful to Mr. Lyttleton if he would tell us how he arrives at this conclusion. The book is embellished with coloured portraits of some eight old-time heroes of the games ; we are disappointed to find small mention of them all in the letter- press, and especially curious are we to learn more of the sayings Buy Maxolon and doings of the late Mr. Wil- liam Davies, whose portrait faces page 84. He appears to have been a man of some character, and our mind can never rest until we know more of him and how he