1 AUGUST 1914, Page 23

Sharps, Flats, Gamblers, and Racehorses. By A. Dick Luckman. (Grant

Richards. 12s. 6d. net.)—This amusing autobiography of a racing tipster may be read with more profit than his tips seem to have brought to those who followed them—though he does boast that in one season the Daily News proved him to be the only one in his profession " to show a profit at all, the others all coming out at a loss." This was hard on the ever-memorable " Captain Coe."