Or,
The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket.
by
The Author of “The Principles of Scientific Batting,”
“Recollections of College Days,”
etc. etc.
“Gaudet … aprici gramine campi.”
“Pila velox,
Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem.”--HOR.
Second Edition.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1854.
“’Twas in the prime of summer time,
An evening calm and cool,
And five and twenty happy boys
Came bounding out of school.
Away they sped with gamesome minds
And souls untouched with sin;
To a level mead they came, and there
They drove the wickets in.”