10 JUNE 1905, Page 25

The Sportsman's Year - Book, 1905. Edited by A. Wallis Meyer. (G.

Newnes and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains the year's record of horse-racing, cricket, football, golf, rowing, polo, and other minor sports. More than half the volume is occupied with biographical 'notices of the chief exponents of the various sports, both professional and amateur. We may give as a sample the first twelve items :—Abel (cricketer), Lady Aberdeen (presi- dent of the Ladies' Kennel Association), Miss Rhona Adair (ex-golf champion), F. G. Ailalo (writer on sea-fishing, &c.), Aitken (foot- ball player), C. W. Alcock (secretary of Surrey County Cricket Club, &c.), Sir C. Alexander (owner of famous kennel of terriers), F. Alexander (owner of racehorses), C. E. Allen (football player), Lord Alverstone (president of Amateur Athletic Association), Lord Annaly (M.P.H.), A. E. Anthony (steeplechase jockey). There niust be nearly a thousand of these celebrities.