20 JANUARY 1979, page 23

Bonanza

Benny Green The Golden Age of Cricket 1890-1914 David Frith (Luttervvorth £8.50) Now is the time for books about cricket, when the battle has drifted eleven thousand miles away......

Co Mp Osition

Francis King The Negligent Daughter Edith de Born (Allen & Unwin £4.95) Even more than Conrad, Nabokov or R.K. Narayan (about whom I wrote a fortnight ago), Edith de Born is a......