THE
CRICKET FIELD:
OR,
THE HISTORY AND THE SCIENCE
OF THE
GAME OF CRICKET.
BY
THE AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC BATTING,”
“RECOLLECTIONS OF COLLEGE DAYS,”
ETC. ETC.
“Gaudet … aprici gramine campi.”
“Pila velox,
Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem.”—Hor.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS
1854.