26 OCTOBER 1889, Page 25

Our Friends in the Hunting - Field. By Mrs. Edward Kennard. (F.

V. White and Co.)—Mrs. Kennard gives us here fourteen sketches of more or less common types from the hunting-field. The " Melancholy Man " and the " Man who has Lost his Nerve " are the first and the last respectively. Among the twelve others there are women, the " Popular Woman," who does not reckon Mrs. Kennard among her admirers, the " Dangerous Woman," and the " Jealous Woman." The sketches are fairly interesting, and not more sarcastic than may be expected. Whatever the hunting-field may do for English character, it does not develop kindliness of speech or thought.