Sports for Girls. Edited by Howard Spicer. (Andrew Mel- rose.
is. net.)—The " sports" are eight in number, and may be enumerated : "Skating," "Hockey," " Swinimiag," " Golf," "Physical Training" (hardly a sport, though of importance that cannot be exaggerated), "Fencing," "Cricket," "Lawn Tennis," each of them being treated by an expert, as, for instance, golf, about which Miss Hezlet, the Lady Champion for 1899, gives some useful hints. We venture to doubt as to cricket whether the "real thing" in balls ought to be used. If one of our great wicket-keepers would allow his hands to be photographed it might be serviceable as an illustration. Generally, however, we find nothing to criticise in the volume, which should be as useful as a book of this kind can be.—With this may be mentioned a little volume on a not unrelated subject, The Way to be Well, by Mrs. Yorke Smith (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 8d., 6d. cloth). It is full of good advice and within every one's reach.
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