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Sportascrapiana. Edited by C. A. Wheeler. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—For

a collection of anecdotes on an extremely popular subject this. book is unjustifiably dull. We have waded through it with difficulty, and cannot undertake to hunt up the few stories which struck us as really good and new, in the midst of so much that was neither. Its chief merit is as a chronicle of the "rest of the acts " of various great sportsmen whose most remarkable feats have been mentioned already. But we have probably had enough of them before we come to Mr. Wheeler's book, and only those whose sporting appetites are insatiable, and who are not easily gratified with any other kind of literature, will find much to suit them in Sportascrapiana.