10 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 25

Sporting Rhymes and Pictures. By J. L. C. Booth. (Kegan

Paul and Co.)—If the author of these drawings had a sense of tone equal to his sense of line they would be excellent. Taken as they are, they are best when simplest and little more than out- line. The figure of the man sitting on the table in "Trans- planted" has a real feeling for the form under the clothes, and the economy of lines is admirable. The verses are not equal to the drawings, and suggest Mr. Kipling and—water.