DONALD W ALKER has followed up his treatises on "
Manly Exercises " and " Exercises far Ladies," by a third of Games and Sports, which forms a very appropriate sequel. It is a simple compendium of the various in-door and out-door pastimes, sports of the seasons, forfeits, and the less sacial games of chess, draughts, and billiards, to the exclusion of those played with cards and dice. The book lays no claim to originality ; but it will neverthe- less be acceptable, especially in the country, where in the long winter evenings this mute " master of the revels " should be at hand to haul- h ennui. The list of games of forfeits might be enlarged, us well as the catalogue of penances : a glance at them has resit eil our juvenile recollection of several that are not men- tioned. We also miss those old-fashioned games hunt the slipper and cross-questions, which surely ought nut to be omitted, any more than situp-apple. The more refined game of acted charades is not mentioned either.
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