7 NOVEMBER 1908, Page 43

The Book of Winter Sports. Edited by Edgar Syers and

Madge Syers. (Edward Arnold. 15s. net.)—The winter sports here described and illustrated—the illustrations have been carefully collected from various sources, old and new—might be particularised as ice and snow sports. This limitation is quite correct ; football, hockey, &c., are practised outside the borders of the winter season. The "winter sports" are bandy, which is a kind of hockey on the ice ; curling, with details of its practice in various countries ; skating and the cognate sport of ski-ing, followed on snow; and tobogganing. In the appendices we have records, laws of the various games, and notes on winter-sport resorts. The names of the joint editors are a sufficient guarantee for the excellence of their work.