A sparkling anthology celebrating sport in all its variety; from elite rugby and football to rural games on the village green, from an exclusive golf club to the sheer pleasure of a bicycle ride. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by sports historian, Professor Martin Polley. A treat for sports fans, dip into this wide-ranging, entertaining collection of classic writing drawn from journalism, diaries, drama, fiction and more. On Your Marks spans from Elizabethan Shakespeare to twentieth-century George Orwell and features Daniel Defoe on horse racing, Jane Austen on baseball, Lewis Carroll on croquet and many more.

Contents:
Volume I: The Varieties of Sport
Part 1: Sport, Recreation, and Society

1. Besant, W., Amusements of the people, Contemporary Review, vol. 45, March 1884,
pp.342-53
2. Anon, Modern mannish maidens, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 147, February 1890, pp.252-64
3. Jeune, M., Amusements of the poor, National Review, vol. 21, May 1893, pp.303-14
4. Gambier-Perry, E., Sport and sportsmen, New Review, vol. 11, September 1894, pp.309-19
5. Anon, The poetry of sport, Quarterly Review, vol. 185, April 1897, pp.433-47
6. Gilkes, A.H., The worship of athletics, National Review, vol. 30, September 1897, pp.77-81
7. Graves, H., A philosophy of sport, Contemporary Review, vol. 78, 1900, pp.877-93
8. Aflalo, F.G., The sportswoman, Fortnightly Review, vol. 83, 1905, pp.891-903
9. Aflalo, F.G., The sportsman, Fortnightly Review, vol., 1907, pp.155-67
10. Monckton, O. Paul, Little known sports and pastimes, Contemporary Review, vol. 1000, October 1911, pp.551-60
Part 2: Team Sports
11. Dykes, T., Yacht racing, Fortnightly Review, vol. 38, August 1885, pp.193-202
12. Anon, The popular pastime cricket, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 140, December 1886, pp.755-63
13. Hutchinson, H., Cricket v. golf a comparison, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 147, April 1890
14. Spofforth, F.R., English cricket and cricketers: a retrospect, New Review, vol. 10. May 1894, pp.626-36
15. Lyttelton, R.H. , W.G., New Review, vol. 13, August 1895, pp.129-36
16. Anon, Our village eleven, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 159, April 1896, pp. 581-91
17. Hutchinson, H., The modern pentathlum, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 2, June 1897, pp.784-93
18. Ranjitsinhji, Cricket and the Victorian era, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 162, July 1897, pp.1-16
19. Jessop, G., Some hints to young bowlers, National Review, vol. 33, April 1899, pp.239-45
20. Abell, H.F., The football fever, Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 89, 1904, pp.276-82
21. MacFarlane, H., Football of yesterday and today: a comparison, Monthly Review, vol. 25, 1906, pp.129-38
22. Trevor, P., The future of cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol., 1906, pp.526-35
23. Creed, P., Polo, Fortnightly Review, vol. 86, 1909, pp.1092-1102
24. Sewell, E.H.D., Rugby football, Fortnightly Review, vol. 85, May 1909, pp.978-89
25. Gordon, H., Problems of contemporary cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol, 1911, pp.175-79
26. Sewell, E.H.D., The state of the game, Fortnightly Review, 1911, pp.933-48
Part 3: Individual Sports
27. Osborn, R., Lawn tennis and its players, Contemporary Review, vol. 40, August 1881, pp.326-36
28. Bury, Cycling and cyclists, Nineteenth Century, vol. 17, January 1885, pp.92-108
29. Anon, The psychology of golf, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 143, May 1888, pp.683-9
30. Anon, A Rambler's Reflections, Cornhill Magazine, New Series, vol. 12, March 1889, pp.270-80
31. Pennell, Cycling: past, present and future, New Review, vol. 4, Feb 1891, pp.171-80
32. Mecredy, R.J., Winter cycling, Fortnightly Review, vol. 50, December 1891, pp.822-31
33. Lyttelton, A., Is golf a first class game?, National Review, vol. 22, October 1893, pp.184-8
34. Baden Powell, B., A trip heavenward. Ballooning as a sport, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 158, November 1895, pp.669-78
35. Creyke, C., Sailing for ladies in Highland lochs, Nineteenth Century, vol. 40, September 1896, pp.478-86
36. Grosvenor, A., Fancy and figure skating, New Review, vol. 14, February 1896, pp.152-61
37. Fenton, W.H., A medical view of cycling for ladies, Nineteenth Century, vol. 39, May 1896, pp.796-801
38. Broadfoot, W., Concerning pugilism, National Review, vol. 29, August 1897, pp.867-76
39. Creyke, C., Fancy cycling for ladies, Nineteenth Century, vol. 42, September 1897, pp.447-53
40. Palmer, W., Fell Walking records, Cornhill Magazine, New Series, vol. VI, April 1899, pp.507-18
41. Haultain, A., Golf, Contemporary Review, vol. 80, August 1901, pp.195-212
42. Jusserand, J.J. , Tennis, Nineteenth Century, vol., September 1901, pp.506-09

Volume II: Sport, Education, and Improvement
Part 1: Sport in Educational Institutions
43. Lyttelton, E., Athletics in public schools, Nineteenth Century, vol. 7, January 1880, pp.43-57
44. Almond, H.H., Athletics and education, Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 43, 1881, pp.283-92
45. Anon, Cricket, Quarterly Review, vol. 158, 1884, pp.458-94
46. Pitman, F.I., Well rowed, Cambridge!, Fortnightly Review, vol. 42, August 1887, pp.214-22
47. Anon, The academical oarsman, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 142, December 1887, pp.834-47
48. Gambier-Parry, E., Compulsory games at public schools, National Review, vol. 14, November 1889, p.383-91
49. Lehmann, R.C., Are our oarsmen degenerate?, New Review, vol. 7, November 1892, pp.619-29
50. Brabazon, Physical education, National Review, vol. 20, December 1892, pp.461-68
51. Almond, H.H., Football as a moral agent, Nineteenth Century, vol. 34, December 1893, pp.899-911
52. Anon, The preparatory school, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 155, March 1894, pp.380-94
53. Lyttelton, R.H., Eton cricket, National Review, vol. 23, May 1894, pp.424-32
54. Anon, Should golf be encouraged at public schools?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 157, March 1895, pp.417-23
55. Ready, A.W., Public school products, New Review, vol. 15, 1896, pp.422-29
56. Various, Public school products a symposium, New Review, vol. 15, 1896, pp.612-20
57. Almond, H.H., The public school product a rejoinder, New Review, vol. 16, 1897, pp.84-98
58. Anon, Physical education in schools, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 165, 1899, pp.573-80
59. Spenser, H.J., The athletic master in public schools, Contemporary Review, vol. 78, July 1900, pp.113-17
60. Almond, H.H., The breed of man, Nineteenth Century, vol. 48, October 1900, pp.656-69
61. Yorke, P.C., On the education of the upper classes in France and England, The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 292, June 1902, pp.563-76
62. Welldon, J.E.C., The training of an English gentleman in the public schools, Nineteenth Century, vol. 60, September 1906, pp.396-413
63. Gordon, H., Youth in cricket, Fortnightly Review, vol. 87, 1910, pp.980-86
64. Coleridge, G., An old boys impression of the Fourth of June at Eton, Nineteenth Century and After, vol. 71, June 1912, pp.1192-1201
65. Lagden, G., Our public schools and their influences, Nineteenth Century and After, vol. 71, March1912, pp.568-81
Part 2: Sport, Health, and Training
66. Brabazon, Health and physique of our city populations, Nineteenth Century, vol. 10, July 1881, pp.80-89
67. Holland, B., London playgrounds, Macmillan's, vol, 46, August 1882, pp.321-24
68. Paget, J., Recreation, Nineteenth Century, vol. 14, December 1883, pp.977-88
69. Brabazon, Open spaces and physical education, National Review, vol. 8, December 1886, pp.483-90
70. Brabazon, Decay of bodily strength in towns, Nineteenth Century, vol. 21, May 1887, pp.673-6
71. Beresford, C., National Muscle, New Review, vol. 1, 1889, pp.62-67
72. Barney, The American sportswoman, Fortnightly Review, vol. 56, August 1894, pp.263-77
73. Roberts, C., The physiology of recreation, Contemporary Review, vol. 68, July 1895, pp.103-13
74. Anon, Shooting, Quarterly Review, vol. 185, 1897, pp.195-213
75. Anon, Are we an athletic people?, New Review, vol. 16, January 1897, pp.41-9
76. Turner, E.B., Health on the bicycle, Contemporary Review, vol. 73, May 1898, pp.640-8
77. Kenealy, A., Woman as an athlete, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, April 1899, pp.636-45
78. Chant, L., Woman as an athlete a reply to Dr. Arabella Kenealy, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, May 1899, pp.745-54
79. Kenealy, A., Woman as an athlete a rejoinder, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, June 1899, pp.915-29
80. Reaney, G.S., The civil and moral benefits of drill, Nineteenth Century, vol. 47, March 1900, pp.396-99
81. Thomas, W.B., Athletics and health, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 8, April 1900, pp.537-48
82. Kebbel, T.E., Fighting and fox-hunting, Macmillan's, vol, May 1900, pp.36-44
83. Luard, C.E., Rifle shooting as a new winter evening pursuit especially for working men and lads, Fortnightly Review, vol. 71, February 1902. pp.361-2
84. Shee, G.F., The deterioration in the national physique, Nineteenth Century, vol. 53, May 1903, pp.797-805
85. Bathurst, The physique of girls, Nineteenth Century, vol. 59. May 1906, pp.825-33
86. Anon, Sport and decadence, Quarterly Review, vol. 211, October 1909, pp.486-502
87. Herbert, A.K., The prominence of pastime, Nineteenth Century, vol. 68, September 1910, pp.536-44
88. Huddleston, T.F.C. and Colson, F.H., Physical and military training, Nineteenth Century, vol. 75, May 1914, pp.1114-18
Volume III: Field Sports
Part 1: Hunting, Shooting, and Fishing
89. Phillipps-Wolley, C., An anglers First of April, Temple Bar, vol. 67, April 1883, pp.505-512
90. Davenport, W.B., Fox-hunting, Nineteenth Century, vol. 13, June 1883, pp.978-91
91. Jefferies, R., The defence of sport, National Review, vol. 1, August 1883, pp.919-32
92. Seton-Karr, W.S. , Our game laws, National Review, vol. 2, February 1884, pp.838-50
93. Kebbel, T.E., English love of sport, Fortnightly Review, vol. 39, April 1886, pp. 540-51
94. Lascelles, G., The chase of the wild fallow deer. Nineteenth Century, vol. 20, October 1886, pp.503-15
95. Anon, The English gentry, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 143, May 1888, pp.705-19
96. Anon, Pampered sport and pheasant rearing, Westminster Review, vol. 130, October 1888, pp.463-73
97. Campion, G., Grouse shooting, National Review, vol. 13, August 1889, pp.721-37
98. Lascelles, G., Sport in the New Forest, New Review, vol., 1892, pp.353-61*
99. A Son of the Marshes, Chance shots and odd fish, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 154, July 1893, pp.110-18
100. Hartley, G., The future of field sports, Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 67, March 1893, pp.365-73
101. Bickerdyke, J., A new sport Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 156, 1894, pp.418-29
102. Speedy, T., Deer-stalking - search for a Royal , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 158, September 1895, pp.351-8
103. Anon, My first kill, Temple Bar, vol. 106, November 1895, pp.356-67
104. Collier, W.P., Otter hunting, Temple Bar, vol. 117, August 1899, pp.560-66
105. Woodgate, W.B., Capping in the hunting field origin of the chase of the fox, Fortnightly Review, vol. 75, January 1904, pp.69-79
106. Teasdale Buckell, G.T., The Scotch deer forests, Nineteenth Century, vol. 60, November 1906, pp.745-50
107. Anon, Foxhunting old and new, Quarterly Review, vol. 206, January 1907, pp.197-215
108. Hodgson, W.E., Hope for the trout-streams, Nineteenth Century, vol. 61, April 1907, pp.638-44
109. Coleridge, The chase of the wild red stag on Exmoor, Nineteenth Century, vol. 62, October 1907, pp.650-2
110. Broadfoot, W., The gentle craft, Quarterly review, vol. 207, October 1907, pp.509-33
111. Hodgson, W. Earl, Fly-fishing, Nineteenth Century, vol. 63, May 1908, pp.787-93
112. Buxton, A., Dry-fly fishing for sea trout, Quarterly Review, vol. 219, July 1913, pp.66-79
Part 2: Opposition and Debates
113. Carlisle, H., On moral duty towards animals, Macmillan's, vol. 45, April 1882, pp.462-8
114. Dixie, F., The horrors of sport, Westminster Review, vol. 137, January 1892, pp.49-52
115. Greenwood, G., The ethics of field sports, Westminster Review, vol. 138, August 1892, pp.168-73
116. Salt, H.S., Cruel sports, Westminster Review, vol. 140, November 1893, pp.545-53
117. Bryden, H.A. , Hunting and its future, Fortnightly Review, vol. 63, March 1898, pp.448-60
118. Anon, The survival and destruction of British animals, Edinburgh Review, vol. 188, July 1898, pp.221-251
119. Stillman, W.J., A plea for wild animals, Contemporary Review, vol. 75, May 1899, pp.667-76
120. Maxwell, H., Our obligations to wild animals, Blackwood's, vol. 166, August 1899, pp.224-37
121. Campbell, J.S., Our brothers, the beasts, Nineteenth Century, vol. 61, 1907, pp.808-20
122. Lee, V., Wasteful pleasures, Contemporary Review, vol. 94, 1908, pp.679-91

Volume IV: Sport and Money
Part 1: The Sports Industry
123. Cameron, D., A defence of deer forests, Nineteenth Century, vol. 18, August 1885, pp.197-208
124. Lister, Queens plates.-Horse supply, National Review, vol. 9, June 1887, pp.465-78
125. Bickerdyke, J., Successful fish-culture in the Highlands, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 154, December 1893, pp.835-42
126. Howard, Foxhunters and farmers, National Review, December 1894, vol. 24, pp.546-56
127. Hillier, The cycle market, Contemporary Review, vol., 1897, pp.184-92
128. Cornish, C.J., The London game-shops, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 3, August 1897, pp.171-81
129. Duncans, The cycle industry, Contemporary Review, vol. 73, April 1898, pp.500-11
130. Underhill, G.F., Fox hunting and agriculture, Nineteenth Century, vol. 43, May 1898, pp.745-54
131. Cornish, C.J., The L.S.D. of sporting rents, Cornhill Magazine, vol. 5, August 1898, pp.183-94
132. Almond, H.H., The decay in our salmon fisheries, Nineteenth Century, vol. 45, June 1899, pp.973-80
133. An Old Player, Football: the game and the business, World Today, vol. 1, 1902, pp.70-79
134. Aflalo, F.G., The writing of books on sport, Fortnightly Review, vol. 85, January 1909, pp.153-62
135. Hutchinson, H.G., Golf during thirty years, Quarterly Review, vol. 212, January 1910, pp.103-20
136. Bentley, J.J., Is football a business?, World's Work, vol. 20, 1912, pp.383-93
Part 2: Professionalism and Amateurism
137. Anon, Cricket, Quarterly Review, vol. 158, 1884, pp.458-94
138. Dooker, Frauds of sport, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 148, December 1890, pp.845-52
139. Hodgson, W. Earl, The degradation of British sport, National Review, vol. 17, August 1891, pp.784-98
140. Anon, Cricket and cricketers, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 151, January 1892, pp.96-113
141. Edwardes, C., The new football mania, Nineteenth Century, vol. 32, 1892, pp.622-31
142. Creston, Football, Fortnightly Review, vol. 55, January 1894, pp.25-38
143. Ensor, E., This football madness, Contemporary Review, vol. 74, November 1898, pp.751-60
144. Jackson, N.L., Professionalism and sport, Fortnightly Review, vol. 67, January 1900, pp.154-61
145. Hutchinson, H., The parlous condition of cricket, National Review, vol. 35, July 1900, pp.789-99
146. Anon, The game of billiards, Quarterly Review, vol. 193, April 1901, pp.482-98
147. Sturdee, R.J., The ethics of football, Westminster Review, vol. 59, February 1903, pp.180-85
148. Anon, Some tendencies in modern sport, Quarterly Review, vol. 199, January 1904, pp.127-52
Part 3: Betting and Gambling
149. Cadogan, The state of the turf, Fortnightly Review, vol. 37, January 1885, pp.105-15
150. Smart, H., The present state of the turf, Fortnightly Review, vol. 38, October 1885, pp.531-43
151. Anon, Horse-racing, Quarterly Review, vol. 161, October 1885, pp.441-69
152. Day, W., Turf reform, Fortnightly Review, vol. 45, 1889, pp.819-32
153. Magee, W.C. (Bishop of Peterborough), Betting, gambling and my critics, Fortnightly Review, vol. 46, December 1889, pp.754-63
154. Runciman, J., The ethics of the turf, Contemporary Review, Contemporary Review, vol. 55, April 1889, pp.603-21
155. Stutfield, G.H., Modern gambling, Nineteenth Century, vol. 26, November 1889, pp.840-60
156. Day, W., The evil of betting and how to eradicate it, Fortnightly Review, vol. 47, March 1890, pp.343-60
157. Oliphant, The ethics of gambling, Westminster Review, vol. 137, May 1892, pp.518-27
158. Horsley, Our sporting zadkiels, New Review, vol. 9, November 1893, pp.515-25
159. Hawke, Our principles and programme, New Review, vol. 10, June 1894, pp.705-17
160. Anon, The art of gambling, Quarterly Review, vol. 204, April 1906, pp.461-80

Volume V: British Sport and the Wider World
Part 1: International Sport
161. Cooper, J.A., An Anglo-Saxon Olympiad, Nineteenth Century, vol. 32, September 1892, pp.380-88
162. Cooper, J.A., The Pan-Brittanic Gathering, Nineteenth Century, vol. 34, July 1893
163. Jope-Slade, R.,The story of the America Cup, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 154, August 1893, pp.189-98
164. Grenfell, W.H., Oxford v Yale, Fortnightly Review, vol. 56, September 1894, pp.368-82
165. Cooper, J.A., Americans and the Pan-Britannic movement, Nineteenth Century, vol. 38, September 1895, pp.426-41
166. Thomson, B., The great international cricket match, New Review, vol.13, October 1895, pp.398-410
167. Robertson, G.S. , The Olympic Games, Fortnightly Review, vol. 59, June 1896, pp.944-57
168. Dale, T.F., Polo and politics, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 165, June 1899, pp.1032-36
169. Baillie-Grohman, W.A., Rifle shooting as a national sport, Nineteenth Century, vol. 46, September 1899, pp367-82
170. Woodgate, W.B., International boat racing, Nineteenth Century, vol. 50, September 1901, pp.439-48
171. Osborn, E.B., New Zealand Football, Nineteenth Century, vol. 59, January 1906, pp.107-13
172. Sewell, E.H.D., Rugby football and the colonial tours

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