This is an out-of-print and rare book, boxed and numbered. A Facsimile of the 1863 Edition with an introduction by Frank (Sandy) Tatum, Jr., United States Golf Association, 1991. Two of the earliest books describing the game are combined into one. Historical Gossip has preserved a delightful compendium on golf as George Robb experienced over 150 years ago. He takes the reader through remarkable variety of facets about the game-- early history, development of golf clubs, comparisons with cricket, historic encounters, engaging personalities and amusing anecdotes-- he provides insights to why the game has such enduring appeal. Golf and Golfers Past and Present has Reverend McPherson reminiscing about golf on the Old Course at St. Andrews in the early days of the gutta percha with a deeply felt lament that the links were no longer what they had been, with "fashionable-committees" having minimized the "niceities of the game and force taking the place of skill." ... old George Glennie looking sadly at the filling up of 'Tam's Coo" bunker as a knight of old would regard the dead body of an honored and valued rival." The depths of these feelings are somewhat tempered by his recollections of the grace and skill of Allan Robertson whom the Reverend decisively thought was the best golfer who ever lived, a clear cut above the likes of Old and even Young Tom Morris. Surely to engage the interest of any golfer as to how much of the essence of the game played in the early 19th century has survived in the game we play today.

Historical gossip: About Golf and Golfers (bound with) GOLF AND GOLFERS: Past and Present

George Robb

J. Gordon McPherson

United States Golf Association

The First World War has left its imprint on British society and the popular imagination to an extent almost unparalleled in modern history. Its legacy of mass death, mechanized slaughter, propaganda, and disillusionment swept away long-standing romanticized images of warfare, and continues to haunt the modern consciousness. Focusing on the lives of ordinary Britons, George Robb's engaging new study seeks to comprehend what it meant for an entire society to undergo the tremendous shocks and demands of total war; how it attempted to make sense of the conflict, explain it to others, and deal with the war's legacies. British Culture and the First World War - examines the war's impact on ideologies of race, class and gender, the government's efforts to manage news and to promote patriotism, the role of the arts and sciences, and the commemoration of the war in the decades since - synthesizes much of the best and most recent scholarship on the social and cultural history of the war - reclaims a great deal of neglected or forgotten popular cultural sources such as films, cartoons, juvenile literature and pulp fiction Compact but comprehensive, this accessible and refreshing text is essential reading for anyone interested in British society and culture during the turbulent years of the First World War.

British Culture and the First World War (Social History in Perspective, 49)

History

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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