26 MAY 1917, Page 17

Amateur Circus Life. By Ernest Balch. (Macmillan and Co. Cs.

64. net.)—The merits of tumbling as a form of physical training for boys and girls are lucidly explained, with the help of photo- graphs, by the author, who has been succeasful with classes of boys in New York and Newport. He describea in detail various enter- tainments which his boys gave, under careful supervision ; they must have been interesting and amusing for the performers as well as for the audience.