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Cricket.*

IT has been said that when nations take to literature their period of decadence begins. What, then, happens when cricketers • (I) Cricket. Edited by Horace G. Hutchinson. "......

Novels.

BARLASCH OP THE GUARD.* THE abiding fascination of the Napoleonic era has not un- naturally exerted its spell on Mr. Merriman, who has given us in Barlasch of the Guard an......