25 FEBRUARY 1922, Page 24

Rough Shooting. By Richard Clapham. (Heath Cranton. 7s. 6d. net.)—As

Lord Ullswater says in his introduction to this entertaining and useful book, Mr. Clapham has chosen the right moment to explain the possibilities of the modest shooting which can be managed by the owner with at most one keeper. Captain Hawker and Colonel Thornton, a century and more ago, used to have great sport on what we should call rough shootings, and war taxation compels a return to their simpler ways. Mr. Clapham deals in turn with partridges and pheasants, grouse and black game, woodcock, snipe and wildfowl, and ground game, and has something to say about vermin and the irrepressible-poacher. He gives some pleasant photographs.