| + + — | Outlook. 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 230w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] Beeson, Rebecca Katharine, comp. Child’s calendar beautiful. $1. Burt-Terry-Wilson co., La Fayette, Ind.
A collection of poems and prose selections to be memorized by children. The selections are arranged to cover the eight years of the grammar school course and each of these years is divided into months beginning with the first school month, September. This arrangement makes the book ideal for a teacher’s use. The selections are not only appropriate to the time of year but they include the thoughts of our best English writers upon subjects which appeal to the child’s patriotism, love of nature, human sympathy, and ideals.
Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B. Great batsmen: their methods at a glance. [*]$6.50. Macmillan.
A series of six hundred instantaneous photographs illustrating the stages by which the best cricket batsmen make their most characteristic strokes.
“It is the most scientific work and the most practical work on batting that has yet appeared, a combination of example and precept which could not be bettered.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 1036. O. 7, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “An intensely interesting book, and it will be found invaluable by all who are concerned with the higher philosophy of cricket.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 683. N. 18, 680w. |
“The cricketers of the future, when the present giants of the game are but memories, may find in Mr. Beldam’s marvellous photographs and Mr. Fry’s concise and lucid descriptions much fascination.”