17 JULY 1926, Page 20

Each-new book on tennis seems better than the last. Major

J. -C. • S.- Bendel', who is an instructor in Cannes and London, has written - in Lawn Tennis• (Cassell, 7s: 6d.) a really very useful- exposition of the game. ' LtiWn tennis- demandg great speed of the nervous reflexes. • The more one studies it the -more one understands that strange relation between games and the conduct of life which the British-people were among the first to recognize. We have here, for •instance, a chapter on " Thinking the Right Thoughts During Play " and on " Concentration," and another chapter on " Balance," which is the secret of games as it is of everyday affairs. This is the best book on lawn tennis we • have yet

read. . . •

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