Sidelights on Golf. By Garden G. Smith. (Sisley's. 3s. 6d.
net.)—Mr. Smith, who is editor of a well-known golf journal, has collected some pleasant, and we may say inetructive, miscellanea about the game. He is, we see, very contemptuous of the solitary player; but as he says in the next breath, so to speak, that "to be an agreeable partner is almost as difficult as to be a good player," he really answers himself. No one but a churl would refuse a game with an antagonist, unless he were immeasurably better or worse. Still, it is harsh to condemn the solitary. Surely it is one of the recommendations of golf that he is a possible being. Every part of the game affords some occasion of comment. Perhaps putting is as fertile a subject as any. It is an art in which all might seem to be on a level ; but the real duffer does not rise above himself even ori the putting-green. On the other hand, the expert who next to never " foozles" a drive not unfre- quently misses the short putt. Old Tom Morris was, possibly is, so notorious in this respect that a letter addressed "The Hisser of Short Putts : St. Andrews" was unhesitatingly delivered by the postman at his house.
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