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(Continued from page 282.) " Not a book to sit down and read,- but one just to dip into," and not that for everybody : so might Mr. W. R. Lyon's compilation, The Elevens of Three Great Schools (Eton, Spottiswoode and Co., 25s.) be described. But get any one
from Eton or Harrow, . or any Winchester . man, standing on one leg, and put it in his hand, and we will be bound to say that an hour later he will still be standing on that leg, or the other, dipping into it It gives the scores of the matches between the three schools from the Eton and Harrow match played at Lord's (where Dorset Square is now) in 1805, when Byron bowled against Stratford Canning, down to 1929. On the pages opposite each score are the briefest notes of who the players were, and the year's obituary of players. These are taken from the Times, Wisden, school papers, &c. Many arc of hale old men, but the young fell thick and fast from 1914-1918. It is in the identification of the players that Mr. Lyon's labours earn the fresh gratitude of those who will hunt up old friends. Volumes would not contain the recollections stirred by turning over the paged of the scores as one stands and dips into the book.
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