After the recent correspondence in this paper on the merits
of fox-hunting, the detractors as well as the lovers of the sport should beg, borrow or steal Bells of the Chase, by Yoi Over (ex- huntsman). (Hutchinson. 21s.) It is the most potent advo- cate that we have heard. Since Stutees died never has there been more truth, more joy, and more generosity than here. Even the author's excursions into literature and mythology, often incongruous and not always apt, usually achieve the impossible through his piquant daring and racy style. If occasionally you have a tumble (over a misquotation or the like) it would be churlish to blame your generous horse. Imme- diately you are mounted again and riding a country made very beautiful by a thousand intimacies with Nature. Yoi Over's vocabulary is as original, and sometimes as poetic, as two of his illustrations, ", How they fly to his cheer " and " The Triaint Part. of the Pack." These are impressionist drawings that must be seen to be believed. The whole book is a fund of wisdom in its dealings with men, with horse and, what it prin- cipally concerns, with the hound.
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