The Book of Sports and Pastimes /or Young People. Edited
by J. K. Benson. (C. Arthur Pearson. 5s.)—This is a dictionary of sport beginning with "Acetylene Lamp "—a toy lamp, it seemi,_ may be constructed ; we are not told whether there is any risk— "Acting Proverbs," " Angling " (this article covers more than twenty pages and seems sufficiently complete), down to "Wood- Carving," "Wrestling," and "Yacht." We would say Salve to the- youngster who begins with the lamp and ends with the yacht. There is, it appears, a companion volume of "Indoor Games." Here, however, we have some of these, but we do not see on what principle. "Beggar-my-neighbour" is missing, though it is probably the best game of cards which a child plays, and we do. not see either piquet or cribbage, though loo and poker are given. Surely there must be a misprint in the statement, where the "stance" at golf is described, that the right foot should be "36 inches behind the left."
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