20. Or, if, under pretence of running or otherwise, either of the strikers prevent a ball from being caught, the striker of the ball is out.

21. Or, if the ball be struck, and he wilfully strike it again.

22. Or, if, in running, the wicket be struck down by a throw, or by the hand or arm, (with ball in hand,) before his foot, hand, or bat be grounded over the popping crease. But, if the bail be off, the stump must be struck out of the ground.

23. Or, if any part of the striker's dress knock down the wicket.

24. Or, if the striker touch, or take up the ball while in play, unless at the request of the other party.

25. Or, if, with any part of his person, he stop the ball, which, in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler's wicket, shall have been delivered in a straight line to the striker's wicket, and would have bit it.

26. If the players have crossed each other, he that runs for the wicket which is put down is out. 27. When a ball shall be caught, no run shall be reckoned.

28. When a striker shall be run out, the run which they were attempting shall not be reckoned. 29. If a lost ball shall be called, the striker shall be allowed six runs; but, if more than six shall have been run before lost ball shall have been called, then the striker shall have all which have been

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30. When the ball has been in the bowler's or wicket-keeper's hands, it is considered as no longer in play and the strikers need not keep within their ground till the umpire has called "play;" but, if the player go out of his ground with an intent to run before the ball be delivered, the bowler may put him out.

31. If the striker be hurt, he may retire from his wicket, and return to it at any time in that innin.gs.

32. If a striker be hurt, some other person may be allowed to stand out for him, but not to go in.. 33. No substitute in the field shall be allowed to bowl, keep wicket, stand at the point, or middle wicket, or stop behind to a fast bowler, unless with the consent of the adverse party. The umpires shall enforce this law.

34. If any person stop the ball with his hat, the ball shall be considered dead, and the opposite party shall add five runs to their score; if any be run, they shall have five in all.

35. If the ball be struck, the striker may guard his wicket either with his hat or his body.

36. THE WICKET KEEPER shall stand at a reasonable distance behind the wicket, and shall not move till the ball be out of the bowler's hand, and shall not by any noise incommode the striker; and if any part of his person be over or before the wicket, although the ball hit it, the striker shall

not be out.

37. THE UMPIRES are sole judges of fair and unfair play; and all disputes shall be determined by them, each at his own wicket; but, in cases of a catch, which the umpire at the wicket bowled from cannot see sufficiently to decide upon, he may apply to the other umpire, whose opinion is conclusive.

38. The umpires in all matches shall pitch fair wickets, and the parties shall toss for the choice of innings.

39. They shall allow two minutes for each man to come in, and fifteen minutes between each innings. When the umpires shall call "play," the party refusing to play shall lose the match. 40. They are not to order a player out, unless appealed to by the adversaries.

41. But, if the bowler's foot be not behind the bowling crease, within the return crease, when he shall deliver the ball, they must, unasked, call "no ball."

42. If the striker run a short run, the umpire must call "one short."

43. No umpire shall be allowed to bet.

44. The umpires are not to be changed during the match, but by the consent of both parties. 45. After the delivery of four balls, the umpire must call "over," but not until the ball shall be finally settled in the wicket keeper's or bowler's hand; the ball shall then be considered dead; nevertheless, if an idea be entertained that a striker is out, a question may be put previously to, but not after the delivery of, the next ball.

46. The umpire must take especial care to call “no ball,” instantly upon delivery ;—" wide ball," as soon as ever it shall pass the striker.

47. The players who go in second shall follow their innings, if they shall have obtained one hundred runs less than their antagonists.

LAWS FOR SINGLE WICKET.

1. When there shall be less than five players on a side, bounds shall be placed twenty-two yards each in a line from the off and leg stump.

2. The ball must be hit before the bounds to entitle the striker to a run; which run cannot be

obtained, unless he touch the bowling stump or crease in a line with it with his bat, or some part of his person; or go beyond them; returning to the popping crease, as at double wicket, according to the twenty-second law.

3. When the striker shall hit the ball, one of his feet must be on the ground, and behind the popping crease, otherwise the umpire shall call "no hit."

4. When there shall be less than five players on a side, neither byes nor overthrows shall be allowed; nor shall the striker be caught out behind the wicket, nor stumped out.

5. The field's man must return the ball so that it shall cross the play between the wicket and the bowling stump, or between the bowling stump and the bounds; the striker may run till the ball shall so be returned.

After the striker shall have made one run, if he start again, he must touch the bowling stump, and turn before the ball shall cross the play, to entitle him to another.

7. The striker shall be entitled to three runs for lost ball, and the same number for ball stopped with hat; with reference to the twenty-ninth and thirty-fourth laws of double wicket.

When there shall be more than four players on a side, there shall be no bounds. All hits, byes, and overthrows, shall then be allowed.

9. The bowler is subject to the same laws as at double wicket.

1. Not more than one minute shall be allowed between each ball.

BETS.

No bet upon any match is payable unless it be played out or given up.

If the runs of one player be laid against those of another, the bets depend on the first innings, unless otherwise specified.

the bets be made upon both innings, and one party beat the other in one innings, the runs in the first innings shall determine the bet.

But if the other party go in a second time, then the bet must be determined by the number on the score.

"TO A PORTRAIT OF A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL.

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

The Museum of Religious Knowledge, designed to illustrate Religious Truth. Edited by Marcus E. Cross. One Volume, pp. 264. J. Whetham, Philadelphia.

A valuable and judicious embodiment of various papers connected with the exposition of the necessity of religious truth. There is no sectarian violence in the matters broached; and we earnestly recommend the essays on " Mental and Moral Culture" and "The Moral Influence of popular Descriptions of Battle Scenes" to the attention of the reader. This unpretending volume may be advantageously placed in the hands of youth. One of Sartain's brilliant mezzotints ornaments the work; it represents Robert Morrison and his Chinese Assistants engaged in the translation of the Bible into the language of the heavenly Empire. This plate is a beautiful specimen of art, from a painting by G. Chinnery.

The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual for 1840. Edited by the Rev. John A. Clark. W. Marshall, and Co. Philadelphia.

We have purposely delayed noticing this splendid Annual until the advent of the season of Souvenirs and Gifts, trusting that our recommendation, honestly set forth, will induce a demand for the Christian Keepsake among the remembrance-seekers of Christmas and New Year's tide. The present volume is in the same excellent keeping that won deserved praise in our notices of the Keepsake for 1838 and 1839; the editor copies a portion of a letter from the Reverend Dr. Dick of Scotland, referring to the tendency of the work to "promote the cause of pure and undefiled religion, inasmuch as nothing of a sectarian spirit pervades any of the papers, so that they may be perused with interest by persons of all religious denominations. As to their exterior," continues the Reverend Dr. Dick, "they are the most elegant volumes I have seen from your side of the Atlantic; they reflect honor both on the paper maker, the printer, the book-binder, and the engraver, and will bear a cornparison, in these respects, with most of the Annuals published in London."

We freely indorse the Reverend's opinion, albeit we dislike his unnecessary and awkward use of the copulative conjunction. The engravings in the present volume are superior in value to the illustrations of the preceding years. The frontispiece is a speaking likeness of the Reverend Richard Channing Moore, the illustrious Episcopalian Bishop of Virginia, after H. Inman's celebrated painting. "The Burning Prairie" is an exciting scene, painted by one of the best American artists, Russel Smith, whose genius requires nothing but maturity to enable him to cope with the proudest sons of the easel. This subject, and another by the same artist, " A Scene on the Ohio," have been well treated by the engravers, Smilley and Cushman. Dodson has three superior plates—the frontispiece, "The Nun," after Thompson, and "Innocence," after De Franca. We have no fault to find with Armstrong for his engraving of Washington-it is a creditable version of an inferior picture, and we regret that the publishers deemed it worthy of notice. The subject is of difficult nature, we admit, but there is a woful lack of skill in Kyle's method of arrangement. General Washington is said, while encamped at Valley Forge, to have frequently retired into the depths of a secluded grove for the purpose of prayer. The painter has placed the illustrious hero upon his knees, it is true, but there is a self-satisfied air about his figure, and a smirk upon his countenance, which sadly harmonize with the act of supplication to the God of Battles.

The literary contents of this year's Christian Keepsake fully sustain the former reputation of the work. The editor has furnished the best prose article in the book, and we gladly point to our own esteemed contributors, Charles West Thomson, Miss Waterman, Professor Wines, Mrs. Ellet, Dr. Mitchell, and Mrs. Sigourney, as conspicuous names in the list of writers.

In the lengthful catalogue of "Contributors," placed at the commencement of the volume, there are upwards of thirty names given whose articles do not appear in the body of the work. We know not who is to blame, but the act is at least a reprehensible instance of neglect. The persons enumerated may have promised contributions, and the editor may have printed their names in the belief that the various parties would fulfil their obligations. We are unwilling to allow the inten

tion of deceit, but we are satisfied that such a statement is positively injurious to the work; for while several of the announced names exhibit the well-known appellations of certain wordy poetasters and plagiarists, others are affixed to persons of worth and mark. The reader will readily excuse the absence of the pretty verses of various of the Honorables and the Reverends, of the Clarks, and the Jameses, and the Browns, but it is hard to be promised articles from such writers as James Montgomery, Mrs. Opie, the Rev. Thomas Raffles, George W. Bethune, and Professor Cleveland, and yet fail to find them in the pages of the work.

One of the most impudent specimens of plagiarism that ever occurred, disgraces the pages of this Annual, and deserves exposure and castigation, inasmuch as it is an insult to the common sense of the reading community, and a positive wrong to the publishers, who have liberally expended the necessary sums in the procuration of superior literary worth. At page 305, there is “ A Christmas Carol," by Richard W. Dodson, Esq. of Philadelphia. Now, this Christmas Carol is copied in substance and spirit from a Hymn for Christmas by Mrs. Hemans. We give the first verse of each article, and leave Mr. Dodson to speak for himself.

The Poet: a Metrical Romance of the Seventeenth Century. A Keepsake for 1840. Philadelphia, Carey and Hart.

This well printed volume is one of the curiosities of literature. It is the product of the leisure of W. J. Walter, Esq. a gentleman now residing in Philadelphia, devotedly attached to the good old school of English Poetry, and known to the lovers of the belles lettres as the editor of the splendid London editions of Southwell and Herrick.

"The Poet" is a combination of the beauties of the poets of the seventeenth century, placed, not "like orient pearls at random strung,” but in relative order and connected bearing, to illustrate the origin, progress, and completion of an amatory siege. It is impossible to convey an idea of the excellent finish given to this simple but effective matter by the pure taste and genuine poetic feeling of the compiler; the poet, "in imagination all compact," must hasten to secure this cyclopedia of Cupid's love, delivered in the choice language of the quaint old masters who drank from the pure well of English undefiled. The lover must not neglect possessing this vade-mecum, wherein he can trace the passage of his own disease, and read, in choice and fancied epithets, the manner of his own pursuit.

We beg leave especially to recommend "The Poet" as a Gift book most likely to be acceptable to the ladies. The delicacy of the conceit, and the variety of the gems embodied in the carrying-out of that conceit, must render this little volume peculiarly delightful to all sensitive minds. It is indis putably the best collection of rare and approved selections from the ancient poets ever given to the world.

The volume is dedicated by Mr. Walter to Nicholas Biddle. We congratulate the gentlemen on their acquaintance with each other.

Albert de Rosann; or The Adventures of a French Gentleman. By G. M. W. Reynolds. Two Volumes. Carey and Hart, Philadelphia.

This is decidedly the best reprint of the year. If Paul de Kock's name had appeared in the title page as the author, the work would have received a larger share of popularity, but we doubt if Paul de Kock, fond of him as we are, ever penned a better novel or tale of life than this same Albert de Rosann. Mr. Reynolds is the son of the old dramatist, who is notorious in histrionic record for the number of bad comedies which he has inflicted upon the suffering public, and for the quantities of monies that he obtained in payment for his trash. The young man is the author of a work on French literature, which has been severely handled by the English critics; he is also the author of "Pickwick Abroad," a continuation of Boz's unequalled papers-but the dry humor of Samivel Weller

killed Mr. Reynolds, and the French travels of the Pickwickians have never been considered orthodox. We believe also that Mr. Reynolds is the anonymous author of the celebrated novel of "Miserrimus!" a work of talent and worth. The book before us stamps him a writer of wonderful excellence; there is an originality in its plot, and a vividity in the details, that attract the attention of the reader, and hold him a willing prisoner to the close of the volumes. The style is remarkably free and Parisian, particularly adapted to the development of the Adventures of a French gentleman and his companion, a chevalier d'industrie of the first class.

Memoirs of His Own Time; Including the Revolution, The Empire, and The Restoration. By Lieut. Gen. Count Mathieu Dumas. Two Volumes. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.

Count Mathieu Dumas will be remembered by all Americans as one of the aid-de camps of General Rochambeau, during his command of the corps of twelve thousand men sent by the French Government to our assistance, in the year 1780. The Count shared this appointment with the Chevalier de Lameth, Count Charles de Damas, the Count de Vauban, the Count de Fersen, the Count de Lauberbière, and M. Collot.

The life of Dumas has been long, and exceedingly fruitful of events. He was born in 1753, and these Memoirs extend from the year 1773, when he first entered the service of France, to the end of the year 1826, an extensive period rife with momentous occurrences, in many of which he bore an important, if not at all times a conspicuous part. In 1826, he had considered his political career terminated, and thought only of enjoying, in retirement, the society of his family and friends; but he was unexpectedly thrust back upon public life, wherein he played a busy rôle for the ten subsequent years until 1836. Upon these latter years the posthumous journal now published does not touch; although his various positions, during the period, must have imbued his entire spirit with intrigue. We now find him first, a member of the Chamber of Deputies; then principal co-operator with the illustrious La Fayette in the re-organization of the National Guards; then Counsellor of State, and lastly a Member of the Chamber of Peers. It is remarkable that from the year 1827, he had been totally blind; and was prevented, in consequence, from prosecuting the historical undertakings which have been announced, as in progress, and for which he had collected a world of valuable material. These Memoirs are the result of dictation to an amanuensis. They are, of course, very interesting, and should have a place in every historical library.

The Most Important Parts of Blackstone's Commentaries, Reduced to Questions and Answers. By Asa Kinne. Second Edition. W. S. Dean, New York.

This work was originally prepared by Mr. Kinne (who is a citizen of Natchez) without any view to publication. His primary design was to impress more vividly upon his own mind the spirit and leading facts of Blackstone, than can be done by the ordinary system of perusal, even when careful attention is given to the text, and the whole matter thoroughly noted, or common-placed. There are few men of logical thought who have not, at some period of life, experienced the benefit of reducing a course of study to a system of question and answer; and, certainly, no one who ever tried it, will hesitate to acknowledge its importance and advantage in the methodizing of knowledge-in the stamping it upon memory, in the rendering it distinct, and, in short, in giving it all those qualities which make it enduring, and at any moment available. The system is applicable to all sciences, and in none is more essential than in law, whose complexity exceeds that of all others. Perceiving the great profit of his course, as he continued to pursue it, Mr. Kinne, at length, having completed Blackstone, digested what he had done, and arranged it, as we now see it, for publication. In testimony of the value of what he has accomplished the high authorities of Walworth, Kent, Story, Cranch, Bouvier, Du Ponceau, Ingersoll, Paul Brown, and other eminent jurists, must be considered as decisive. But by the public at large the volume in question has scarcely yet been known; a fact which is accounted for only by some very unusual scruples of the author, in regard to the mode of publication. We are now happy to find that these scruples are removed, and that the book will be circulated, as it deserves to be.

The copy now before us is one of the second edition; the first having been privately distributed. Mr. Kinne has materially enlarged and greatly improved his work, simplifying it by every means in his power. Among other important points we observe that the ordinary Latin, Greek, French, Italian and Saxon law phrases are very properly Anglicised. Many of the original answers are extended beyond their former limits, in order to afford a more complete exhibition of the fundamental canons of the British law, the great original of our own judicial system, and with a view of making the abstracts plain, and easily comprehensible by the general inquirer. He has also interwoven more than five hundred additional questions and answers, and appended a very serviceable Index. In its