Cycling. "The Badminton Library." (Longmans and Co.)— This is a
fifth edition, but our readers will scarcely need remind- ing that cycling has developed at such an extraordinary rate since the introduction of the safety bicycle, and most of all in the last few months, that even a fifth edition does not contain the last remarkable phase of this craze. The chapters devoted to construction have to be altered, as the safety bicycle has com- pletely ousted the high bicycle, and much has taken place in the history of racing that has to be chronicled. The appendix con- tains a list of amateur records. The chapters on touring and racing are the most interesting in the volume,—few people have any idea bow dependent the racing bicyclist is on the "pace- maker." We are glad to see that the authors discourage the racing of women. Cyclists have lost a comrade and a genial and powerful friend in the late Earl of Albemarle.
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