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EVERY BOY’S BOOK:
A COMPLETE ENCYCLOPÆDIA
OF
SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS.
EDITED BY
EDMUND ROUTLEDGE.
With more than Six Hundred Illustrations
FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS.
LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,
THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.
NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET.
1869.
R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers,
Bread Street Hill, London.
EDITORS PREFACE.
The twelve years that have passed since the first edition of EveryBoy’s Book was published, have brought so many changes in ournational sports and pastimes, and have seen the introduction of somany new games, that it has been thought desirable to remodel thiswork, in order to bring it down to the requirements of the presenttime. In carrying out this plan effectually, Every Boy’s Book hasbeen almost entirely rewritten; and scarcely anything now remainsof the old work except the title.
All the articles that were in the former edition have beenthoroughly revised, and papers on Boxing, Canoeing, Croquet,Fives, Golf, Rackets, Sliding, Billiards, Bagatelle, Dominoes, SpectrumAnalysis, Canaries, Hedgehogs, Jackdaws, Jays, Magpies,Owls, Parrots, Ravens, Boats, Cryptography, Deaf and DumbAlphabet, Dominoes, Mimicry and Ventriloquism, Shows, StampCollecting, and Tinselling, appear now for the first time.
In carrying out this work much valuable assistance has been givenby Professor Pepper, the Rev. J. G. Wood, W. B. Tegetmeier,Clement Scott, Sidney Daryl, J. T. Burgess, Dr. Viner, ThomasArcher, W. Robinson of the Field, Cholmondeley Pennell, and otherwell-known writers on sports.
The articles at the end of this work on American Billiards,Base Ball, and the Canadian sport of La Crosse, have been contributedby Henry Chadwick, the leading authority on these gamesin America.
Christmas, 1868.
PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION.
It would be impossible for a single author to produce a book ofthis description with a fair prospect of success, because it necessarilytreats of many subjects; and a perfect acquaintance with some ofthe more important would occupy a lifetime. The reading and researchesof one man would not be sufficiently extensive to embracethe rich variety of the materials required. Being fully convinced ofthis fact, the Publishers have endeavoured to obtain the aid of themost distinguished writers in the various departments of knowledgewhich the following pages are intended to illustrate. Thus eachcontributor, in furnishing his quota of information for the work, hasbeen engaged in a congenial task, one best suited to his peculiar turnof mind, as well as to his individual acquirements, and one uponwhich he could, therefore, with the greatest ease and accuracy dilate.This brief explanation will show in what spirit the Publishers embarkedin the undertaking; and the accompanying list of the writersmay be received as a proof that they have succeeded in securing theservices of the