Cricket 1906

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Ditto, ditto, with Leather Ends ditto All Leather ............................................ Ditto, ditto, p riv a te ........................ .. Carriage free , 10s. andover. 8/11, 8/-, 6/11 8/11 ... 8/- . . 12 9 22/-, 26/- 20/-, 26/6 BATTING GLOVES . White Leather, Grey Tubular Rubber or Corrugated ... 4/- Kair-padded Fingers, pair 2/9, 3/6, 8/- Wisden’s “ Prince,” Black Rubber Fingers.......... 8/6 “ The Oval,” Grey Rubber (as illust’n) 3 - Ditto, Red Rubber .. 8/6 “ Surrey Shield,” Red Rubber........................1/3 Postage free. B E N E T F I N K & C o . , 107 & I 08 , c h e a p s i d e , LONDON, e .c . THE CATALOGUE OF CRICKET LITERATURE . By A lfr e d D. T a y lo r. ( 1 Continuedfrom page 191.) Spectator (A.) Feats and Facts Appertain­ ing to Cricket. F. Platts, London. 1863. [Valued at 7s. 6d.] Spe ctator’s Sussex County Cricket Companion for 1901. Brighton. Sports and Pastimes. Books on outdoor amusements naturally teem with cricket, but as these scarcely come under the category, they are only tabulated under exceptional circumstances. A brief list of the best known books on sports in which cricket plays a prominent part is appended:— Annals of Sporting Athletic Sports and Recreations (Wood) Australian Sporting Al­ manack (Fitz Gibbon) British Rural Sports British Sports and Pas­ times (Trollope) Book of American Pas­ times (Peverelly) - Book of Sports (Martin) Ball Games (Routledge) Boys’ Book of Sports Boys’ Own Book of Sports and Pastimes Boys’ Own Treasury of Outdoor Sports Book of Sports (Egan) Encyclopaedia of Sport (Lawrence and Bullen) Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports (Blaine) Everybody’s Book of Games (Howe) Field Book of Sports and Pastimes Games and Sports (Wal­ ker) Games Made Game of Gentlewoman’s Book of Sports (Lady Greville) Hoyle’s Games House On Sport, The (Members of Stock Ex­ change) Holiday Sports and Pas­ times (Richardson) Modem Outdoor Amuse­ ments (Warne) Musings for Athletes New. Book of Sports (Be ntley) Old English Sports (Ditchfield) Philosophy in Sport (Sherwood) Pastime and Players (McGregor) Pictures of Sporting Life and Character (Hurst and Blackett) Present Pastimes of Merry England (Ber­ nard) Rules of Britsh Sports Sport in Europe S p o r ta s c r a p ia n a (Wheeler) Sportsman’s Magazine Sportsman’sPocket Book Sporting Reminiscences of Hampshire (TEsop) Sporting Sketches Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (Strutt) Sports and Pursuits of the English (Watson) Sports and Recreations in Town and Country (Gale) Sporting Almanack Sports Spiced and Pas­ times Peppered (Dra­ gon) Sporting Sketches at Home and Abroad (Bagatelle) Sports and Pastimes (Cassell) Sporting Annual (Rout­ ledge) Sportsman’s Year Book Sportsman’s Year Book (Newnes). (Lawrence and Bullen) Year’s Sport, The (Wat­ son) Sportive Snatches. Annual. Existed five years, 1889-1893. 6d. W rig h t.& Co., London. [A complete set of above, which is chiefly devoted to cricket, is worth 10s.] Spybey (6\ G ) (See Nottingham County Matches). St. George Cricket Association’ s Annual. Issued to members since 1903. Sydney. Known in 1905-6as the Illawarra Suburbs Cricket Association’s Annual. St. Ivo and the Ashes. (See Beeston, R. D.) St. John’s Cricket Club. Members only. Simpkin, London. 1849. Stainton (J. H.) (See “ Looker-on.” ) Standing (Percy Cross). Cricket of To-day and Yesterday. Numerous illustrations. Originally issued in fortnightly parts. 7d. each: Complete in two vols. T. C. & E, C. Jack, London. 1902. Standing (Percy Cross). The Cricketer’ s Birthday Book. 2s. 6d. J . M. Dent and Co., London. 1898. Standing (Percy Cross). The Hon. F. S. Jackson. W ith an introduction by Prince Ranjitsinhji. Illustrated. 2s. 6d. Cassell and Co., London. 1906. (T o be continued.) Now Ready at all Libraries and all good booksellers. Crown 8vo, 6 /- . WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS. THE M.C.C. in South Africa. By P. F. W AR N ER . Captain of the M .C.C. Team. Author of “ How W e Recovered the Ashes,” “ Cricket in Many Climes,” etc. “ Mr. Warner writes like a true sportsman........... Anyone in search of further information as to this interesting tour would be well-advised to buy it.”— Tribune. “ Readable to a high degree .”—Daily Chronicle. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., W .C .