Horse-Racing in England. By Robert Black. (Bentley and Son.) —Mr.
Black's Horse.Raciing will be of more interest to the racing snan than to the general reader, but containing, as it does, a general sketch—a real history would include many things very
little connected with horses—of the principal horse-races and matches of the last two hundred years, with sundry details and alterations in the conditions of racing, it may well be a useful book of reference. It is impossible, we suppose, to introduce any colour into the style usually adopted by writers on racing, but certain it is that one and all write in exactly the same tenor and make the same jokes. Mr. Black knows his subject and brings plenty of sound common-sense to bear on it. He is rightly doubt- ful of the times recorded of the many famous matches and races, and points out how valueless some records are, from the absence of such necessary items as riders' weights, the horses' age, and other particulars.
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