The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-21 00:00:00

LITERATUE,E.

The Boy's Own Book. New Edition. Profilou'J
Illustrated. Lockwood and Co.
Numerous as the rivals of the " Boy's °wit
Book" have become, not one amongst them, 13°
half-a-dozen of them rolled into one, can match our
old favourite. As au Encyclopedia of the Sports
and Pastimes, Athletic, Scientific, and simply lle•
creative for Boyhood and Youth, the book is
peerless ! And in its present form, in the form of
this really beautiful reissue of it—an Edition °
which we may say at once that it has been Ye/
greatly enlarged, very carefully revised, and v,„erl4
admirably illustrated throughout—The Boy's (-1"
Book puts on a more radiant appearance than ever,
in doing so setting at rest any doubt as to its pert
feet right to its emphatic title as the Ws
of all Christmas Presents for a sehoolbl
Home for the Holidays. Formerly ill the
latest and largest edition of it, it extended t!
as many as 600 pages. It has now, in this ne%
edition of the work, been increased, by 100 add'
tional, to a total of 700 pages, imperial 1601°
handsomely and serviceably bound in bright earl%
cloth, richly emblazoned on the back and 03 th
side with kites, tops, bats, balls, bows and arrovisl
battledores and shuttlecocks, with divers other tols;
garden-tools and instruments—the parapher°3lld
°
of indoor and of out of door amusement. scatterf
abundantly among the letter-press, are hundreds ue
capital illustrations—so abundantly that, in the,
700 pages, there are no less than 600 embellishaw.a:
Two hundred of them are entirely new, and--best
the 600 in all, old and new—there are ten vigne. e
titles, printed in gold, at the beginning of the 01:0
number of compartments. Recognizable aenong.t;.hr
illustrators of the dear old book—a book fain °l,
to the last three or four generations of isell?°,
boys --are artists as eminent as
Harvey, the illustrator of the " Arabian Si b
gite
Entertainments," and Kenny Meadows, ri
v:f
d
best of all the book-illustrators of the plaYs jc
poems of Shakspere. In the revision of the iv°a,
as it stood in the last of the preceding oditioes to
it, nothing of interest or importance worthy of v`(l,
has been anywhere omitted. But while this is 13°1:0i
dawns of a remarkable kind, of great variety auuhrit
considerable extent, have been introduced. S° t"0
" The Boys' Own Book" is more truly than ever 0.
'es
Lawgiver in regard to all the Games and Pastinl.th
of the Playground. All conceivable games °telly
tops, with balls, or with marbles, are here min
described and illustrated. Athletic ePrtslll
eluding among there Cricket, Golf, F°°tb3.3
Croquet, Troco, Hookey, Rackets, Fives, Te
Pallone, Quoits, Bowls, Skittles, Aunt 53
c);,
Gymnastics, Fencing, Broadsword, singlesti
Boxing, Wrestling, Archery, Riding, and 1)13.11,1d.
—are all very carefully and graphically describ.'g,
So, too, are Aquatic Sports—such as Swiel`nligat,
Rowing, Angling, Canoeing, Sailing,
ing, Slidieg, and Curling. The Naterao
Department gives all kinds of iuferinatti's
in regard to Singing Birds, Talking 131%;
the Poultry Yard, Pigeons, Rabbits, GuL,l,..
Pigs, Dogs, Cats, Squirrels, White Alice, "1,11,h0
worms, Bees, the Aquarium, and Gardening.
A,,j,
A ni
Scientific Recreations comprise among them a- sc,
rably clear descriptions of Arithm
'll4 etical ,ul,‘c..
uients of various kinds Magnetism, 0,..
tricity, Galvanism, Elec tro-Maguetism,
mistry, Optics, Acoustics, Pneumatics, Fe,
works, Ballooning, Photography, the Alicr°selr-
the Telescope, the Stereoscope, &c. Full 51,
ticulars are given of the different games of .5
such as Chess, Draughts, Backgammon, D°llllll°3ll
Solitaire, Bagatelle, and Billiards. Besidnceo
which—sleight-of-hand or legerdemain, easy `r"
cbs
trixoti
and simple deceptions, tricks with money
with cards, feats requiring apparat°9 after
feats requiring only confederacy, are en°
another illustrated with delightful precision ,
distinctness. Paradoxes and Puzzles, fon, .100,
and amusement of every imaginable descre6ol_
°
fill the goodly volume from cover to cover. be
t
Boy's Own Book," in effect, is calculated hto
regarded by every boy who is fortunate eoeugtrgey
possess it, as his very Own—as a never-fag'
ondl-
sury to him of delightful instruction an
-
entertainment.

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CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOB Pt
makes one of the most charming gift-booko ith
children at Christmas time, a gift-book filled 7tbe
beautiful pictures--a very feast for the cies °-
little ones.
BOOSEY'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL OF NEW "---11,ftS and
can hold its own side by side with the cheaPeP" %re
best of its competitors. Original contributioosod
comprised within it from Claribel, 101106'n. too,
Strauss, as well as from Forbes, Berger,
abi.l'7l of
Thomas, and Offenbach, so that about the Opp
the contributors there cannot be two opililic;il3oo
the result of their co-operation being 3 13‘h.
success. rrhe

THE CHURCH IN THE METRoFoLP.- at
Bishop of London has conferred the rebendal tall j 3.
Mapesbury, in St. Paul's Cathedral, upon the 11°' teed
master Dyne, Dof.DH.,igwhhgoatefosr
School. His
H3ois
cgeneralhapel Royal,ordin a
It
vi ohni t
etho a-pas been
METROPOLITANoicIoc
11 yloeardrsshil
mlTwhemorningsrvMUNlClPALlTlES.w - -Cl'illi C:
Ovdri*
:1,:1)11e1.113:°C1 clet
ha
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; der
stood that Mr. Ayrton, M.P., has boon at Wet' up
stood
bill for the municipal government of London, bese,-t 0
thesaid
report of his select committee of last session, an"vitart
B that the bill is now ready. The gatroP° •ths.
Board of Works is proposed as the chief central °Loa,
dnotay, under the title of "The Municipal Council of -
11 the
An improvement-rate is to be levied
se cily
ars
metropolis, including the City, and the funds rai
to be
applied by;itbs ‘, Metropolitan Count n.""
Press. TV
THE FIRST CHAMPION OF THE THAMES.'" ,s,
d dies
first waterman who attained the honourable title aniata-
ab of the champion of the Thames was Charle7 v eil
unction
ell, of Lambeth most owerful sculler, an, aa dor° °a
p -after ,
waterman •in the strictest sense of the word, Wh°' non,'
couple of years' servitude as "apprentice to a wuter-oree
entered on board a man-of-war, where he served for tore
years ; and on the very day of his return to bis :raeal'
waters unwittingly laid the foundation of his future riot;
ness as the original Champion of the Thames• fien'd toell
the Old Swan, London-bridge, with his sea-chest, an aad
appearance every inch a sailor, he was not recd pawl
brother watermen, but hailinc, an old friend i 4
flehnes to take him up to Lambeth, and depositiebsolP,
heavy sea-chest in the stern-sheets of the old Iv .a.
coolly said, " Sit down, Mr. Holmes, I'll scull bee%tiils
Mr. Holmes was by no means willing to give scup the ide
to a man-of-war's man, as in those days of no ste"i. 08
watermen held a very high opinion of their o'l fliltheit
trim-built wherry, and were, moreover, chall °1
of
honour when entrusted with the life and traps'. 1 the
fare. " Sit down aft there, Mr. Holmes," again eul` die,
future champion; " this is not the first time l've 111:00r.
a pair of sculls, and won't be the last, i Nolo'l,llooo
Lt was not, however, until Campbell revealed nt, a it
that he was allowed to take the sculls in band ; :All
so happened that William Noulton—better k.n.osvn este:rola ,
Noulton—then in great repute not only as a '"' , a pre
but a general in aquatic matters, had just rov/c,"_,50100
from Westminster to London-bridge, and started b-_,°:),,1100
distance ahead of the Jack Tar and Mr. llohues• J'14.1 r",ea-
rowing in a new and fast wherry, and having n it,eo, sad
chest nor sitter to carry, yet had to make such str°':,, obiog
so many of them to hold his bead, that
rd
if,3,,,,,10ct
Lambeth, and finding out who it was that bad
nse ;tit ; for
him, at once remarked, " Thou I must brim; ilib'o, auci l'o
if he can row that old boat, and carry ~ thero'r3 0
sitter in the stern as fast as I can my %viler'',
mistake about his sculling. —Land and Water.