wicket in the first innings of the Cliftonians; nine of them bowled and the tenth caught by another brother, Alfred Grace. I remember well the ckbut of \V. G. Grace in London in 18b 1 at Lords. He was only sixteen years of age when he iirrd appeared on a metropolitan ground, and I can recall his form as if it were yesterday ; his straight and truo bowling—much faster than it is now, and not quite so high in delivery—the wonderful straight­ ness of his hat, and that samo wonderful push oil the leg stump, the stroke that has made liirn famous above every other cricketer of the age. The match in question was South Wales v. I Zingari; and in July of the same year ho established his reputation, for South Wales against the Gentlemen of Sussex, with a first innings of 150 runs and a second of 56 not-out. In 1865 he was ranged on the side of the Gentlemen against tho Players in both of the two matches then played annually. It was a mark of distinction that has never yet fallen to the lot of either amateur or professional to attain the highest honours within the reach of a cricketer when quite a boy. He was not seventeen years of age when he first played for the Gentlemen against tho Players. To enumerate his achievements from that time to the present day would require a volume. A hasty glance at tho most remarkable of his many wonderful feats must suffice for present purposes. On July 30, 1866, for England against Surrey, he went in first, and carried his bat out for 221 runs. He was then only a few days over eighteen years of age; and not a month later he made another brilliant innings of 173 not-out for tho Gen­ tlemen against the Players of the South, and made it without a semblance of a chance against the bowling of Willshcr, Bennett, James Lillywhite, Griffith, Hearne, and Sewell. In 1866 he scored 2168 runs for an average of 54 per inningB. His foot was then on the topmost round of the ladder, and for ten years there has been no one able to attain a sufficient height to get within reach of him. In 1^67 a sprained ankle, and the still worse dis­ order of scarlet fever, caused him to see less of the cricket-field. Still he was able to win the match for the Gentlemen against the Players at Lord's and both with bat and ball was in brilliant form, getting most inns, and in the second innings of fhe Players bowling 16 overs (9 maidens) for 25 runs and 8 wickets, an analysis unequalled in these contests. In 1869 his services v’ore secured by the Marylebonc Club, and in that £car, for the premier club, he made four innings of three figures,—to wit, 138 not-out, against Surrey at the Oval, and three minor scores of 1*27, 121, and 117. Perhaps his most meritorious achievement during that season was at Sheffield, for the South against the North ; and I remember well, how, in the short space of two hours, against the bowling of Freeman, Emmett, Iddison, and Wootton, ho scored 122 runs on a wicket in every way suitable to the Northern bowling, and with George Freeman—then at his best—in such deadly form that no other Southern batsman could so much as look at him. In 1870, in first-class matches, he had an aggregate of 1808 runs for thirty- five innings, and 1871 was the most successful season ho has ever had—ins figures showing the extraordinary sum of 281-4 runs for forty-one innings, in fii -t-class matches. That year his entire aggregate was 3696 runs for sixty- three innings, and his average in all matches was 66—his principal per­ formance being his 26S for the South against the North at the Oval in the second innings, after being given out, leg-before-wuckct in the first by the late John Lillywhito, the very first ball of the match. In 1872 he was not quite so prominent with 1185 as the result of twenty-six innings; but in 1873 he was again in rare form, scoring ns many as 283 inns in three 'linings for the Gentlemen of the South, 391 runs for the Gentlemen in three inning* against the Players. 521 in nine inning** for Gloucestershire, and 1981 runs