27 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 22

This reviewer remembers seeing " Kid " Lewis when he

was training at Richmond, and noticing, during the " Kid's " punching practice, that wonderful torso (especially the, shoulder muscles) to which Mr. Wignall alludes in The Sweet Science (Chapman and Hall, 15s.). He very rightly says that Lewis was one of the greatest natural glove fighters of his time, and the observations he makes on his fall from popularity aw, as lust as they are generous. It is interesting to read.

that Jack Dempsey (who, by the way, is being criticized in the United States as too rich to fight ") considers that the mule-kick power of Carpentier's right would have knocked him out at Jersey City if it had landed an inch lower down. The Sweet Science is clever, amusing, and infor- mative.