Days and Nights of Shikar. By Mrs. W. W. Baillie.
(John Lane. 12s. 6d4—Mrs. Baillie's book is a readable and unpre- tentious account of big game shooting in India. It contains some amusing anecdotes and the following delightful adver- tisement, which Mrs. Baillie tells us was devised by a Hindu taxidermist:— "Tiger, Lion, Panther, etc., shot by sportsman and native Rajas, set up in natural posture, life-like in every artistic style as under : (1) Sitting ; (2) standing upright ; (3) laying down ; (4) jumping; (5) playing ; (6) waking with a simultaneous furious stare ; (7) walking into jungle, to search for pray, staying at once, expecting about into great rage, at fierce open mouth ; (8) putting up a musical instrument (into stomach) to produce a grouling sound from open mouth at extra charges ; (9) with or without the protector of glass ease ; (10) with or without gungle views into case. As per terms required."
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