TRIANGULAR CRICKET.
Triangular Cricket. By E. H. D. Sewell. Illustrated. (J. M. Dent and Co. 5s. net.)—A detailed account of the nine test matches of the triangular tournament between England, Australia, and South Africa which took place during last summer. The value of the book lies in the personal note, for Mr. Sewell saw every ball bowled during the series of matches, and gives his own opinion upon various doubtful points. On matters outside the record of the test matches he occasionally asserts a little too much, as for instance when he refuses to discuss the amateur and professional question, "though perhaps I know as much about it as any man living." But the individual point of view, though occasionally aggressive, is justified in a book of this kind; it mig,lit otherwise read intolerably stale. Mr. Sewell can write vigorous slang. But is it too late to hope for a new word to be substituted for the hideous and meaningless " googlie "P
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