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A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS 



A PRESENTATION VOLUME FOR CLUBS. 



4to., bevelled hoards, gilt edges, (500 pages), vHth appropriate 

 ilVuMrations, price One Guinea, by post £1 2s. 4d. 



THE 



ENGLISH GAME OF CRICKET: 



COMPRISING A DIGEST OF ITS 



ORIGIN. CHARACTER, HISTORY, AND PROGRESS, 



TOGETHER WITH 



AN EXPOSITION OF ITS LAWS AND LANGCTAGE, 



CHARLES BOX, 



Author of "The Cricketers' Manual," "Reminiscences of Celebrated Players," Essays on 

 the Game, "Songs and Poems," "Theory and Practice of Cricket," &c. 



CONTENTS. 



Chap. 



I) 



TO > Introductory. 



VI.) 



Glances at the Past and Present State of 

 County Cricket. 

 VII.— Middlesex. 

 VIII.— Public School Matches. 

 IX.— Kent. 

 X. — Hampshire. 

 XI.— Surrey. 

 XII. — Sussex. 

 XIII.— Nottinghamshire. 

 XIV.— Yorkshire. 



Chap. 



XV. — "Warwickshire and Derbyshire. 

 XYI. — Gloucestershire. 

 XVII. — Lancashire and Leicestershire. 

 XVIII.— The Eastern Counties. 

 XTX ) 

 ^x' I Iiitercolonial Matches. 



XXL— School and Village Matches. 

 XXIL— Curiosities of Cricket. 

 XXIIL— Cricket Grounds. 

 XXIV.— Laws of the Game. 



XXV. — Poems, Songs, and Ballads. 

 XXVI. — Glossai-y of Words and Phrases. 

 Postscript. — Shakespeare and Cricket 

 — An Enforced Dissertation. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" The most complete and interesting work on cricket ever published. No expense 

 has been spared in making that which is really useful a very handsome volume."- 

 Belts Life. 



" We welcome with heartiness a writer like Mr. Charles Box, who has so 

 pleasantly united in the splendid volimie before us the old order (of cricket) with 

 the new." — Siiorthrq and Dramatic News. 



"This work will prove interesting to all lovers of cricket."- 7'wn^s. 



" The volume is a very handsome one indeed, destined, doubtless, to become an 

 authority on the essentially ' English Game of Cricket.' "—Morni7ig Post. 



"The best work on cricket that has yet come under our notice."" —Nottingham 

 Journal. 



" A handsome and well got-up volume, the author being the man of all others 

 qualified and in a position for compiling such a work. — Kent Herald. 



" THE FIELD " OFFICE, 346, STKAND, W.C. 



