SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading se. notice such Books of the leech as Caw no1 hot rverwd for renew in other Jones.] The Evolution of the Olympic Games. By F. A. M. Webster. (Heath, Cranton, and Ouseley. 6s. net.)—In the preface to this entertaining book Sir Arthur Conan Doyle states his opinion that British want of success in recent Olympic meetings does not imply any falling off in our material—. "the human machine is at its best in these islands. But we have got into the way of doing things rather less thoroughly than they might he done, and that is the point that wants strengthening." Mr. Webster has been in the forefront of the movement fur doing things more thoroughly, and to his history of the Olympic games, from 1829 B.C.—we do not know where he gets this date—until the Stockholm meeting in 1912, he appends a chapter on British preparations for the sixth modern Olympiad. Which shows how seriously this question is taken by some of our amateurs.
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