A Book on Golf. By J. Braid and Others. (Hurst
and Blackett. 4s.)—This is a volume of the" Imperial Athletic Library." Much ingenuity and much experience have been -utilised in producing it. J. Braid, an eminent expositor of the game, tells us how he plays ; J. A. T. Bramston, another expositor almost equally eminent, gives us the same information about himself and his own way. They do not agree. Golf, indeed, seems to be the great exception to the maxim quoted by Aristotle from some gnomic poet,— " icreAr.s /air 7.45 awA.74, paspaikts SI xasti.s."
There are, of course, a myriad ways of doing the thing badly; but there are a good many ways of doing the thing well. On the
whole, the poor player may take hope and comfort. Should h read books about the art which he is so laboriously cultivating? Certainly, only he must use them with discretion. He must not seek to form his methods by them; he should be strictly eclectic in his study of them ; if he chooses wisely, he cannot fail to find something that he can really and usefully assimilate.
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