31 Daft and Lockwood run one another wonderfully close in tlio averages, and if we aro inclined to give the palm to the former (so far as county cricket is concerned), it is because his special excellence was more apparent when playing for Nottingham than it was elsewhere, and this cannot be said of Lockwood. \Vc cannot conclude without remarking how successful the meeting of county secretaries was last year. Place a man face to face with a brothel* secretary wi t h whom he hopes to arrange a cricket match, amt in a few moments more can be done by word of mouth than by weeks of writing. Moreover, it is a step in the right direction, inasmuch as the counties should, we think, have some tribunal ‘beyond the M.C.C. to which county mattors should be referred, the general business of the leading club being quito sufficient of itself. Something of the sort is not, we think, unlikely to spring out of the county secretaries’ gathering. The initiative in this case was due to the Surrey County Cricket Club, and other counties ought to be thankful for the idea. Wo now take leave of our subject, conscious of the shortcomings that characterise our sketch of the last season’s doings. Cricket is a subject that has been written threadbare, and there is n o t ‘a cricketer of note whose powers have not been canvassed over and over again, until there is nothing more to be said. The game has been written about ably and to good pur­ pose; it has been written about feebly and wearily. Good cricketers have told us the truth clumsily, and literary critics have talked nonsense about it elegantly. Old men have discoursed on the giants who lived in the da vs gono by ; young men have extolled things as they are, and that all this has been sent forth to the public year by year must stand a 3 our excuse that little original matter or novelty of idea can have been imported into our necessarily sketchy notes. ♦