Chapter I: Front Matter

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EVERY
BOY’S
BOOK

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS
LONDON
AND NEW YORK.]

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 EVERY BOY’S BOOK was published, have brought so many changes in our national sports and pastimes, and have seen the introduction of so many new games, that it has been thought desirable to remodel this work, in order to bring it down to the requirements of the present time. In carrying out this plan effectually, EVERY BOY’S BOOK has been almost entirely rewritten; and scarcely anything now remains of the old work except the title.

All the articles that were in the former edition have been thoroughly revised, and papers on Boxing, Canoeing, Croquet, Fives, Golf, Rackets, Sliding, Billiards, Bagatelle, Dominoes, Spectrum Analysis, Canaries, Hedgehogs, Jackdaws, Jays, Magpies, Owls, Parrots, Ravens, Boats, Cryptography, Deaf and Dumb Alphabet, Dominoes, Mimicry and Ventriloquism, Shows, Stamp Collecting, and Tinselling, appear now for the first time.

In carrying out this work much valuable assistance has been given by Professor Pepper, the Rev. J. G. Wood, W. B. Tegetmeier, Clement Scott, Sidney Daryl, J. T. Burgess, Dr. Viner, Thomas Archer, W. Robinson of the _Field_, Cholmondeley Pennell, and other well-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 contributed by Henry Chadwick, the leading authority on these games in America.

CHRISTMAS, 1868.