Sporting and Courting" is what he calls it. We do
not think much of the courting, and still less of the sporting. Mr. Hudson- should have obtained a little more knowledge on this subject before he made it the chief part of a story. What are we to think when we find horses put into training, or rather, absolutely in training, at the end of July for a race to take place in the first week of December? or that a man has backed his horse at long odds to win him £40,000 in a handicap hurdle-race, before the weights have been published ? Is it not customary to have more than two jumps in the last mile of a steeplechase ? We cannot recommend. the book, even apart from its sporting side. Some of the Irish characters are amusing ; but the plot is commonplace, and the dialogue weak. In future, we should advise Mr. Hudson to steer clear of writing sporting stories.
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