interest may have been passed unremarked by former writers, I have ventured to put my observations on record in this little volume. Prefatorial notices, in manuals of the game, are more or less fragmentary; and while the matter herein may be not altogether new, I hope my brother bowlers will agree with the old Arabic proverb, which says, "Honour to the beginner, even though the follower does better." In the words of the immortal William "I do beseech you To understand my purposes aright." DUNOON, January, 1893. H. J. D. "Get your enemies to read your works, in order to mend them; for your friend is so much your second-self that he will judge, too like you."-Pope. CONTENTS. Derivation-Antiquity-The Ball in Ancient Egypt-Egyptian Toys, CHAPTER III. BOWLS IN ENGLAND. Kymbeline-Billiards, Bowls, and Pell Mell--Greens—The Jack, an Analogy-Half-Bowl-Act of Parliament-Abuses-Drake's CHAPTER IV. BOWLS IN SCOTLAND. CHAPTER V. BOWLS ABROAD. Ireland Canada - U.S.A. - New South Wales - Victoria - Inter- I 66 |