Rudyard Kipling 
An Almanac of Twelve Sports 

This book is a short collection of a dozen poems and one for each month of the year – two-page calendar for 1898 followed by twelve color woodblocks by Nicholson with verses by Kipling on opposing pages, whose language is short but lively and interesting. Each month illustrates a different most popular sports at the end of the 19th century: ‘Hunting, ‘ ‘Racing, ‘ ‘Boating, ‘ ‘Fishing, ‘ ‘Skating, ‘ ‘Boxing, ‘ ‘Golf, ‘ ‘Shooting, ‘ ‘Archery, ‘ etc.