W.G. Grace: A Life.

Contemporary Review | September 1, 1998| | Copyright

Simon Rae. Faber and Faber. [pounds]20.00. 400 pages. ISBN 0-571-17855-3.

'With the beard of a Goth or a Vandal', which he tugged vigorously when agitated, and standing six-foot two in his stockinged feet, the man 'generally admitted to be the most wonderful cricketer that ever handled a bat' must, as Simon Rae reminds us in his new biography of W. G. Grace, have been an imposing physical presence. A 'bulky sprite', G. K. Chesterton called him, 'a prodigious Puck in a truly midsummer day's dream.' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle remembered the high-pitched voice - he never lost ...

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