29 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 23

The Best Season on Record. By Captain Pennell-Elmhirst. (Routledge and

Sons.)—This is an account of the doings of the Quern hunt from October, 1883, to March, 1884. We do not pre- tend to criticise it ; but we may congratulate the agricultural interest that in some respects, at least, it is favoured by the weather,. and that it has spirits to enjoy the pleasures thus provided. And we may extract, as a matter of general interest, that ladies in the bunting-field are to wear habit-skirts loosely fastened at the waist, which, "in times of extreme danger," may be cat adrift. The author is not very felicitous in his way of announcing this decision, and would have altered his language if his classics bad been a little more recent.