Work and Play. Observing people know that one can work hard if he can play hard. There may be temporary profit but not permanent gain from much work and no play; there is sure to be failure--financial, and often moral--from a life of much play and too little work. Shakespeare told us that "No profit grows where is no pleasure taken;" the human machine cannot long stand a strain from which there is not temporary relief. Another truthfully said that "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy;" no variety enters into his life and he fails to acquire the stimulus and exhilaration which always come with change. Granted, then, that games and play are as necessary as work, what shall we play, and when? We are told, with characteristic force and pleasing brevity, when not to play, by Theodore Roosevelt, who says, "When you play, play hard, but when you work do not play at all." Americans play more than other peoples; we are the most prosperous nation on earth, also, and many people believe that there is relation between these facts. Healthful recreation is more and more taking the place of sports and games which not only are no benefit to health, but which are positively injurious. Anything which compels one to be out of doors, which makes him breathe deeply and use all his muscles in well-balanced and not over violent exercise, is to be encouraged. Classified List of Games. THE NEW PRACTICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY presents almost 100 articles relating to athletic sports, games and plays, and to terms belonging to them. The portion of these which relate directly to outdoor recreation are classified below, so the person who seeks information on them may turn at once to the various titles in regular alphabetical arrangement: OUTDOOR GAMES AND SPORTS Angling La Crosse Archery Lawn Tennis Baseball Marbles Canoeing Polo Coasting Quoits Cricket Rounders Croquet Rowing Curling Shooting Falconry Skating Fives Swimming Football Tobogganning Golf Trapping Hand Ball Trawling Hockey Water Polo Hunting Wrestling Ice Yachting Yachting Brief statements respecting some of our deservedly popular games may well be given here. No man or woman need be ashamed to admit a liking for healthful sports or hesitate to participate in them. There are more outdoor contests for men than for women, but in at least two, lawn tennis and golf, women are worthy rivals of men in efficiency displayed and in their understanding of the fine points of the games. Baseball is enjoyed by women as keenly as by most men, even though they cannot play the game.