26 JUNE 1897, Page 12

Golf in Theory and Practice. By H. S. C. Everard.

(G. Bell and Sons.)—This volume, which is thoroughly well illustrated, ought to do whatever can be done for a learner by instruction on paper. The amount of this is probably but small ; indeed the receptive capacity of a pupil, even to the practical instructor, is but small. Most men have their natural limitations, which they can no more pass than they can "add a cubit to their stature." After all, for most of us, it is well to be content with- " The apple-faced sage, with his nostrum for all, Dinna burry the swing, keep your ee on the ball."

But if any one wishes to "proceed to honours" in the game, here is what will probably prove a useful text-book.