Colonel Arthur BroOkfield'S Annals of a Chequered Life' (Murray, 15s.)
begins as a very buoyant autobiography. He runs away from school, he drinks port with Lord Tennyson, he is diamisSed froth Sandhurat Owing-to an undue fondness' for theatricals, he goes to Cambridge, joins the 13th Hussars in India, is attacked by a sacred jackal, returns home, marries, retires, stands for Parliament and is elected for Rye. Then a- bitter note creeps in, and, with it, malaise for the 'reader.* What should have been a happy, healthY book of sport; politics and adventure, becomes clouded with complaints and explanations. However, on the conclusion of his political career (after telling his constituents that he would like to bring Mr. Chamberlain to the gallows, he could not expect favours from that gentleman, even after a :lapse of eighteen years) he was made a Consul at Danzig, and afterwards at Savannah, U.S.A., where he remained during the Great' War. In his closing chapters Colonel Brookfield recovers his' former verve.
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