21 MARCH 1914, Page 24

Golf. By Arnand Massy. Translated by A. R. Allinson. (Methuen

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This addition to the voluminous literature of golf comes from the pen of the great French player who won the Open Championship at Hoylake in 1907 His didactic book was originally addressed to his own country- men in 1911; it is so full of sound practical advice as to be quite worth translating. Massy holds that the most artistic shot in golf is "when the ball is purposely sliced or pulled with the object of bringing off a shot utterly impracticable otherwise." It is odd that slicing, which is the moat prevalent and the hardest to eradicate of all faults, is yet so difficult when one wants to do it.