26 DECEMBER 1903, Page 25

Concerning Golf. By John L. Low. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s.

6d. net.)—Mr. Low commences his preface with a little story : how A and B, being equal players, were made unequal by B taking to study "one of the illustrated treatises on golf, with which the English have supplied us." His own book is certainly not illus- trated, and it is not, he tells us, a treatise on the game. We must own that we do not see very clearly the difference. It has a certain formality of arrangement. The teeing ground, playing through the green, driving (for which subject another expert has been called in), approaching, putting, and other matters are successfully treated of. However, whatever it is, the book is a pleasant one to read, and may very likely be found useful. We see that Mr. Low declares emphatically against rubber-cored balls. But that is too complicated a matter for discussion here.