Cycling. By Viscount Bury and G. Lacy Hillier. (Longmana.)— This
is the new volume of "The Badminton Library," to which it should be a welcome addition. " Cycling " is, as Professor Huxley remarked, the most important addition to the individual power of locomotion that has ever been made ; and it might be said that even lawn-tennis does not equal it as a sport, for the healthy enjoyment which it provides. Thousarkes now can enjoy holidays which a few years ago were absolutely beyond their reach. The first two chapters, entitled "Introductory" and "Historical," occupy about a fourth of the volume. "Riding," "Tearing," "Training," "Racing," "Dress," and " Chiba " are the subjects next treated of. Other matters, too, are dealt with, the interest of the ladies in the matter not being forgotten. The book is primarily, of course, intended for " cyclists ;" but others may read it, and then, as in all things where human skill and endurance are tented, there is a common interest. Who does not feel astonishment at the courage—perhaps we ought to say the foolhardiness—of the man who drove his bicycle along the parapet of a bridge, with a fall of two hundred feet below ? The pictures, mostly contributed by Mr. Pennell, add much to the valise of the volume.
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