Champlin's Young Folk's

Cyclopædia of Common Things.

By JOHN D. CHAMPLIN, late Associate Editor of The American Cyclopædia." With numerous illustrations. Revised and enlarged. 8vo, $2.50. (Half-leather, $3.00.)

"A book which will be of permanent value to any boy or girl to whom it may be given, and which fills a place in the juvenile library, never, so far as I know, supplied before. If a boy wants to know about birds or dogs, for example, he will find all that he wishes to have in a few compact pages, with a dozen or more wood-cuts to point and illustrate the text; or is it knots' that he is anxious about-a single page gives him the whole theory, with eight specimens of the different sorts of sailors' knots, and explanations of the way to tie them."-Susan Coolidge,

Champlin's Young Folks'

Cyclopædia of Persons and Places. Ill'd. 8vo, $2.50. (Half-leather, $3.00.) "We know copies of the work to which their young owners turn instantly for information upon every theme about which they have questions to ask. More than this, we know that some of these copies are read daily, as well as consulted; that their owners turn the leaves as they might those of a fairy-book, reading intently articles of which they had not thought before seeing them, and treating the book simply as one capable of furnishing the rarest entertainment in exhaustless quantities."- The New York Evening Post.

Champlin's Young Folks'

Cyclopædia of Games and Sports.

THE

YOUNG FOLKS' CYCLOPÆDIA

OF

GAMES AND SPORTS

BY

JOHN D. CHAMPLIN

LATE ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA

AND

ARTHUR E. BOSTWICK

Witb numerous Tllustrations

SECOND Edition, revised

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1899

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION,

THE YOUNG FOLKS' CYCLOPÆDIA OF GAMES AND SPORTS is a compendium of recreations of all kinds, including indoor and outdoor games and plays, athletic and rural sports and pastimes, chemical and mechanical experiments and amusements, and every similar thing that can interest a wide-awake boy or girl. Like the other volumes in the Young Folks' Series, it is in cyclopædic style, a novelty in a work of this kind, rendering its articles easy of reference, and combining other advantages never before united in a similar volume. Intended primarily for the family, for the use of children and youth of all ages, it will be of equal value to the adult, as it includes the official rules, given word for word, of athletic sports and standard games, and the official records of athletic meets and events, thus making it a work of reference for the settlement of disputed questions relating to such matters. To insurer accuracy, such articles as require it have been revised by competent experts.

Among the features of the work are a brief historical sketch of each game or sport, the description of foreign varieties of each, a full illustration of the text by accurate plans and diagrams, and a system of etymology, as in the other volumes of the series, giving the derivation of names and technical terms. While the "padding" characteristic of too many such works has been rigorously excluded, the endeavor has been to make the explanations full enough for simplicity and clearness. Unlike many other works on sports and games published in this country, which are merely reprints of English books, this cyclopædia has been written for American use from the American standpoint, even such a game as Cricket being treated as it is played in the United States.

While the illustration is very full, no picture has been inserted for its own sake, or otherwise than as an aid to the understanding of the text or the elucidation of different periods of games and sports.

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