ANON.
SPORT AND PLAY
Mr. Spalding, the well-known sporting goods manufacturer, is also the publisher of the Spalding Athletic Library, which contains, besides rule books and record books of various sports, a series of text-books, at ten cents the copy, bearing such titles as “How to Play the Outfield,” “How to Catch,” “How to Play Soccer,” “How to Learn Golf,” etc. Authorship of these works is credited to famous outfielders, catchers, soccer players, and golfers, but as the latter can field, catch, play soccer, and golf much better than they can write, the actual writing of the volumes was wisely left to persons who make their living by the pen. The books are recommended, as a cure for insomnia at least. The best sporting fiction we know of, practically the only sporting fiction an adult may read without fear of stomach trouble, is contained in the collected works of the late Charles E. Van Loan.
R. W. L.
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION FROM THE FOREIGN POINT OF VIEW[1]
Frances Milton Trollope: “The Domestic Manners of the Americans,” London, 1832.
The rest is silence ... or repetition.
E. B.
[1] The views of foreign travellers in the United States are summarized in John Graham Brooks’s “As Others See Us,” New York, 1908.—The Editor.