WRIT IN SAND By R. B. Cunninghame Graham A style
of definite distinction and a smack of pleasant mordancy are always to be found in Mr. R. B. Cunninghame Graham's work—these and a passionate love for, and intimate knowledge of horses, added always to a reverence for what is nobly born and dignified. All these headmarks occur in his collection of short pieces entitled Writ in Sancl_(Heine-. mann, Os.), which includes a sketch of the life of a cosmopolitan travelling circus, a tender picture of the procession to a Calvary in Madeira, a portrait study of wastrel but roman- tically interesting Spanish grandee, and above all an account of Tschiffely's fifteen-thousand-mile - ride from- Buenos Aires to New York, which started in 1925 and ended in 1928. Two horses were the traveller's sole companions, Mancha and Cato (short for gateado, the cat-coloured one)—Argentine criollos both, who had never- known a feed of corn nor worn a shoe, though for their great adventure they were shod. This splendid feat of pluck and endurance both of man and horse is told as only a Cunninghame Grahain can tell it.
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