30 JULY 1892, Page 25

The Art of Golf. By Sir W. G. Simpson, Bart.

(David Douglas, Edinburgh.)—This is a revised edition, stimulated, no doubt, by the volume on " Golf " in the Badminton Library. Indeed, Sir W. G. Simpson seems to have taken up his pen with the idea of combating some things laid down in that excellent book ; but finding apparently nothing really worth fighting about, wanders off into long and loving analyses of styles and other refinements in the art of golf. The beginner would not learn much from The Art of Golf, though here and there the seeming quantities of chaff have grains of wisdom mixed with them. However, the chaff is good of its kind, often humorous, and will read pleasantly to the golfer.