Torn Brown's Schooldays, by Thomas Hughes (Macmillan and Co.), appears
in a very elegant edition, with illustrations by Mr Edmund J. Sullivan. For the local pictures in Rugby, exteriors and interiors, and various scenes of school-life, we have nothing but praise. And the figures also are good, though, perhaps, a little conventional. The captain of the eleven on p. 287 is hitting very late at the leg-ball which he is supposed to be playing in beautiful style. If he touches it at all, it will infallibly be skied in the direction of long-stop (they had long-stops then). This suggests a curious question in the matter of illustration. Jack Engles goes in, " scorning pads and gloves." The artist, there- fore, is justified in representing his cricketers protected in this way. But were they used at Rugby in those days ? (the date of the match is 1841). The impression of the writer of this notice is that it was not so.
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