CYCLING FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE

By Luther H. Porter. Athletics Series. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. $1.00. This little volume, with its bright yellow cover, has already gone into the hands of hundreds of cyclists. It proves in our experience to be all that it claims, "an indispensable guide to the successful use of the wheel." In the minutia of detailed information given concerning all the points of the bicycle, its use and abuse, its relation to health and dis-ease, and the difficulties which the beginner usually encounters, it should take its place as the wheelman's guide, counsellor, and friend. The cyclopadic chapter was a happy idea, and Dr. Hammond's address on the "Bicycle in Health and Disease" was well worth inserting in the volume. The style of the writer leaves much to be desired. Mr. Porter knows his own business, and knows it well, and for this we are thankful; but he has evidently had little leisure to practise the scribbler's art. There are glaring faults which ought to have been detected in reading the proofs, but the book as a whole will pass muster, as few who consult its con-tents will be troubled by its lack of lit-erary finish.