sisters are capital bowlers. The quiet young student who has just passed puts on the gloves with Jem Mace, and holds his own creditably. These are exceptional instances? Yes; but observe the men on every side of you; look at the school-boys who are playing the game; step into the tennis and racquet courts, and notice the youths who are hitting away from mere love of vigorous exercise, and say whether they do not seem to be of the same pattern, and then tell me where in the United States I can meet so many perfectly healthy, ablebodied gentlemen at so promiscuous an assemblage. Not, certainly, at a base-ball match. It will require another generation of base-ballers to create men like these." The author has a chapter upon English women, the first portion of which institutes comparisons between our own and the ladies of America, nor can these be deemed "odious" to either. He The American women have much smaller hands and feet, slenderer waists, and livelier manners than the English. The English women have better busts, fuller figures, clearer complexions, fewer headaches, rounder voices, and more robust health than the American does not want the American women to look like the English, but he does wish them to be as healthy, and to bear children as healthy. To accomplish this he suggests warmer under-clothing, more walking, greater indifference to weather, more living in open air, and regular exercise on horse-back. "Almost every English lady knows how to ride; that goes without asking; but in America, although you may be sure that every lady can thrum the piano, not one in fifty can ride. Croquet is not exercise, for which reason I presume, the American women have been willing to adopt it; but gardening is a healthy amusement, which most Americans neglect, and in which English ladies take the utmost delight. Presently he says, "better this than forming women's clubs or agitating for women's rights by declaiming women's wrongs" (though by and bye he dwells strongly on the wrongs inflicted on our countrywomen, in other matters in connexion with them). "Far better, too, than resorting to watering-places every summer in quest of rest and strength, and returning in the autumn more fatigued than ever. English women go to watering-places also; but they go for the water, and flirt incidentally; they bathe; they trot about on the beach; they make walking excursions into the adjacent country; they are not so particular about their toilettes as in town.' He contends "The first duty of a woman is to be handsome and healthy, and the average English woman performs her whole duty faithfully; the average American woman fails after the handsome half, but does that half splendidly." And here we must stop. THE POCKET GUIDE TO BEZIQUE: by "Cavendish," author of "The Laws and Principles of Whist," &c. This guide is intended to furnish in a convenient form a description of this new and popular game, with practical hints for playing it, and also a book of reference for deciding any question or knotty point which may arise in the course of play. No writer is more calculated to do justice to the subject of this or any other game of cards, chess, or drawing-room amusement, than the clever and indefatigable author who appears under the nom de plume of "Cavendish." His style is so clear, his reasonings so consistent, his precision so inimitable, his judgment so deep, that any work of his must find a distinguished place in the library and drawing-room of every town and country house. "Cavendish," whose works upon whist have gained a world-wide reputation, has introduced a new whist-marker, admirably executed by Messrs. De la Rue. It is one of the most useful, ornamental, and inexpensive articles we have ever seen. It has already found its way to all the principal clubs in London. THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE. (Run March 3).-15 to 1 against Despatch, 100 to 12 The Colonel, 200 to 15 Fan, 12 to 1 Guy of Warwick, 12 to 1 Pearl Driver, 100 to 8 Tathwell, 100 to 8 Alcibiade, 15 to 1 Forunatus, 18 to 1 Q. C., 25 to 1 Harcourt, 25 to 1 Dick Turpin, 50 to 1 Endsleigh, 50 to 1 Barbarian. Printed by Rogerson and Tuxford, 265, Strand, London. EMBELLISHMENTS. ELY; WINNER OF THE BEAUFORT, ASCOT, GOODWOOD, BRIGHTON, AND YORK CUPS IN 1865; ENGRAVED BY E, HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY E. CORBET. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY THE LATE ABRAHAM COOPER, R.A. DIARY FOR APRIL. CONTENTS, THE OMNIBUS: PAGE THE WAY BILL.-Deaths of Distinguished Sportsmen--Coursing Cracks- THE LATE LORD GLASGOW AND HIS HOUNDS 23 . 243 . 245 . 250 "HERE'S SPORT INDEED!"-BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX A FISHING EXCURSION IN THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND.-BY THE TURF REGISTER.-Metropolitan Grand Steeple Chase and Hurdle Race Meeting-Bromley Winter-Tramore (Ireland)-Finchley Christmas Meeting-Manchester-Coverdale-Hop Grove (near York)-Sudbury Spring Meeting-Carmarthen-Edgware-Tenby-Birmingham-Wiltshire County and Beaufort Hunt -Streatham First Spring-Newbridge (Ireland) - Lincoln Spring-Harrow Spring Moreton-in-Marsh-Pontefract and West-Riding-Boston-Nottingham Spring Meeting-Windsor - Norton-Juxta-Kempsey Chelmsford Spring-St. Albans-Derby Spring-Baschurch Hunt-Brackley-Liverpool Spring. 16 F Richmond Athletic Sports. 17 S West London Rowing C. Opening. r r 4 57 20 T Eel Fishing begins. [Cirencester. s 7 4 7 2 14 6 367 3 8 2 53 7 35 8 13 21 W Sale of the V. W. H. Hounds, r 4 53 9 3 25 8 56 3 39 22 T Croydon Spring Meeting. 23 F 24 S s 7 710 3 5510 2111 3 8 7 10 12 afternoon. 912 37 4 48 12 RISES 1 2 1 26 8 52 1 48 2 8 7 53 2 31 2 54 5 3 14 3 37 25 S Fourth Sunday after Easter. r 4 45 13 r 4 37 17 11 12 Morning. 3 57 4 18 4 38 4 59 RACES AND STEEPLE CHASES IN APRIL. Abergavenny,1; Aldershot, 1; Bromley, 1; Catterick Bridge, 1; Cannes, 1; Vincennes, 4; Tarbes, 4; Margate, 5; Sudbury, 6; Thirsk, 6; Streatham, 6; Cambridge, 7; Croxton Park, 7; Lamberton, 8; Liverpool Hunt, 10; Edinburgh, 10; Paris, 11, 18, and 25: Newmarket Craven, 12; Lichfield, 13; Kingsbridge, 14; Morpeth, 15; Knighton, 15; Bordeaux, 18, 22, and 25; Eastbourne, 19; Lewes Spring, 20; Cardiff, 20; Curragh, 20; Croy. don, 22; Newmarket First Spring, 26. Aldershot, 1; Abergavenny, 1; Bromley, 1; Market Rasen, 1; Dover Garrison, 1; Granard, 1; Queen's County, 1; Albrighton, 2; North Walsham, 2; Daventry, 5; Margate, 5; Hull and Holderness, 5; Annesley Hunt, 5; Lichfield, 6; Irish National Hunt, 6; Streatham, 6; Torquay, 7; Cambridge, 7; Aberystwith, 7; Lamberton, 8; Cheltenham, 8; Royal Artillery (Woolwich), 8; South Wold Hunt, 8; Sudbury, 8; Southdown Hunt, 9; Melton Hunt, 9; Bishop Stortford, 10; Liverpool Hunt, 10; East Sussex Hunt, 12; Willington, 12; Tamworth, 12; Sadberge; 13; Isle of Wight, 13; Grantham, 13; Cashel 14; Thrapston, 14; Kingsbridge and South Devon, 14; South Essex, 15; Knighton, 15; Hambleton Hunt, 16; Louth, 16; Manchester, 17; La Marche, 17; Cardiff, 20; Kilkenny, 20; Kelso, 21; Tenbury, 21; Croydon Spring, 22; Louth and Ardee, 27; Crook Hunt, 28; Northumberland, 29. THE OMNIBUS. "There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBIDGE HALL. WAY BILL: -Deaths of Distinguished Sportsmen-Coursing Cracks-The "Stud Book"-Mr. Chaplin's Sale-Races of the Month-Hunting-Bell's Life in Sydney-The Inter University Matches-Scene at Evans's. THE "activities" of the month have been many and various. Of the THE boat race and Inter University races, we have told elsewhere. Again the boat race tactics on the part of Cambridge were a great puzzle. They knew that they were the fastest, but the weakest crew, to say nothing of having an untrained man in their ranks, and yet they forced the pace at a very critical point, in "the old, old fashion," as if it were a two mile race, and again cut themselves down. What is the use of all the training in the world if races are run on such a system as that? Mr. Mellor was slain by the halfpenny Echo, but he happily came to life again, after a short quinsy bout. The sounds after dinner, when the subject was alluded to, showed that the Oxford men had not relished Mr. Morrisson's coaching Cambridge, but it seems not unlikely that he may do so again: as they have been unfortunate, he won't desert them. He did not hesitate to say that Goldie the Cambridge stroke was the finest oarsman of the sixteen. Mr. Kinglake also calls him "our beautiful stroke," but Mr. Egan does not see much in him. At all events he says that " to my eye, he shut up long before it was rowed out-it is not surprising, nor can he be blamed." Mr. Egan also observes that "the Cambridge steerer could not keep his boat straight for one hundred yards together." Mr. Neilson the Oxford coxswain is amphibious, as he appeared at the Aylesbury Aristocratic Steeplechases next day, riding with some three stone of dead weight on Cora Lynn. The letters on race-horse improvement have happily come to an end. Admiral Rous never cut a poorer figure, and even the racing papers at last did not care to reprint his effusions. His vexation seems to be that Sir Joseph has got the run of him in turf reform, and that the 1st of May limit which Colonel Forester proposes for the two-year-olds generally meets with acceptance, and that in fact he is quite out of the hunt in the matter. We earnestly trust that the Jockey Club will pass the May proposition. The spring meetings which would suffer, might very easily repair their loss by races for four-year-olds that have never started as twos and threes. Many country gentlemen who breed thorough-breds, or at all events half-breds, with four or five blood crosses in them, which are destined for the hunting field, and who will not on principle knock their |