Cricket, the beginning of, 1; origin of name, 1, 2; first form of play, 2, 3, 31; underhand bowling, 3; the first bat, 4, 5; choosing the wicket, 4; “length” bowling, 4, 5, 32; laws in 1774, 5; match between Kent County and All England in 1847, 5, 6; change of fashion in bat, 6; match between Hambledon Club and All England in 1775, 6; number of stumps increased, 7, 8; height of stumps and narrowing of wicket, 7, 8; distance between the wickets, 8, 9; regarding the width of the bat and size of ball, 10; invention of gauge, 10; laws first committed to writing, 11; influence of betting, 11, 13; a new moral epoch in 1833, 13; the Hambledon Club, 13, 14; a fire at the M.C.C. Pavilion, 14; Farnham the cradle of, 14, 15; county “boundaries,” 15; famous battlefields, 16; early matches, 17; cricket in the north, 17; appearance of Essex and Herts, 18; the first Gents _v._ Players match in 1798, 19; more strict division of counties, 20; betting, 21-28; single-wicket matches, 27, 28 Cricket, country-house, 342; the prime of, 343; perceptible decrease in the amount of this class of cricket, 344; obstacles in the way of, 345; the task of collecting a team, 345, 346; an ideal week of, 346; the ladies’ cricket match, 347; lunches, 347; Smokers _v._ Non-Smokers, 348; the I Zingari Club, 348, 349; a batch of anecdotes, 349-354; “military weeks,” 354; school tours, 355; clubs, 355-359; aims of, 360 —— county, 20; progress of, 139; organisation into a formal competition, 141; growth and systematisation, 142; gate money, 142, 143; increase of cricket, due to the growth of county cricket, 144; formation of a county Eleven, 144, 145; grounds, 146; professional players, 147; amateurs, 147; relations between professionals and amateurs, 149; question of residential qualification, 149-152; _bona-fide_ residence, 150; early county cricket, 152; betting, 153; some early matches, 154; in the north, 155; notes on the early half of the century, 156, 157; a trio of matches between Sussex and England, 156; wides and no-balls, 156; arrangement of matches, 157; establishment and formation of county clubs, 158, 159; the All England and United All England Elevens, 158-160; classification of counties, 160, 161, 167, 168; arrangement of meetings, 161; rivalry of clubs, 161, 162; the Challenge Cup offered by the M.C.C., 162; list of the champion counties, 163; system of reckoning the order, 164; connection between the Marylebone Club and the counties, 165, 166; history of the various first-class counties, 169-192