With more than 800 Illustrations, and Coloured Frontispiece. 768 pages, large crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges.
"It really seems to embrace every conceivable amusement, whether of the athletic or the intellectual kind, in which boys are likely to take delight, and forms, moreover, a thick handsome book."—Daily News.
"A perfect cyclopædia of every variety of games and recreative science known to the present generation of boys.... This cheap and admirable book is greatly in advance, in every respect, of any volume of the kind we ever saw."—Morning Advertiser.
"Every kind of game will be found in this attractive volume. The descriptions are interesting, the instructions clear and concise, and the best authorities have been consulted for the rules."—Daily Chronicle.
"What lad could desire a better gift than 'Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes'?"—Graphic.
"All manly games and exercises are treated at great length, and with much skill. This bulky and handsome volume will give entertainment and instruction for months and years."—The Schoolmaster.
"Difficult indeed would it be for either the veteran sportsman, or the young athlete, to find a work which would favourably compare with this one."—Civil Service Gazette.
"This is the best work of its kind that has come under our notice.... The value of the book is increased by upwards of 800 capital illustrations. No more welcome present could be made to a lad."—Bell's Life.
"This work is to be commended for the accuracy and fulness of information.... The book is a sensible and practical guide to the subjects of which it treats."—Manchester Guardian.
"This is a large, comprehensive, and handsome book. Sports and pastimes are described and illustrated on a scale of thoroughness, which cannot be too highly commended."—Edinburgh Daily Review.