Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fifty Leaders of British Sport: A Series of Portraits
The text which accompanies Mr. Elliott's remark able series of portraits is so meagre as scarcely to require any foreword. Were such an introduction desirable, I should be tempted to borrow from John Bunyan's rhyming apology to the Pilgrim's Progress, but that, my subjects being still in the ?esh, I have not been called upon to follow their careers to that extreme limit of interest in the personal equation. What they do and even, by inference, what they leave undone may be gathered in some part; but how they run and run until they unto the Gate of Glory come, that will be for other pens to relate. All that has been attempted, in an exposure scarcely longer than that of Mr. Elliott's lens, is to outline their many activities and varied hobbies, their public services, their private recreations. At any rate, with the above time-limit, these brief biographies cannot be said to add a fresh terror to death.
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