A SPORTSWOMAN IN INDIA.
A Sportswoman in India : Personal Adventures in Known and Unknown India. By Isabel Savory. (Hutchinson and Co. 16s.) —Miss Savory defines a sportswoman as "a fair shot, consider- ing others, and never doing an unsportsmanlike action, prefer- ring quality to quantity in a bag, a keen observer of all animals, and a real lover of Nature," and we are bound to admit that she has lived up to every letter of her definition. In her short visit to India she had a taste of pig-sticking in the plains, a fox-hunt in the Punjab, mountaineering and bear-shooting in Ka.shmir, tiger-hunting in the Deccan, and she was present at an entrap- ping of wild elephants in a kheddah. It would be a poor compli- ment to say that she writes of her experiences like a good sports- man, for a man would be a very good sportsman indeed with half the courage, and humour, and high spirits which Miss Savory shows on every page of her book. She carries with her into the jangle an artist's eye for landscape, and the narrative is studded with many sane and humorous comments on the ways of the world. She touches on the life of the hill stations and Anglo- Indian society, only to wish herself back to the wilds again. Not that there are no pictures of civilisation, for the romance of the gorgeous Eastern cities is told with much picturesqueness, but the author is far more at home in the lonely hill-camp or beating in the jungle. To any one who wishes to live for some hours in a fascinating world of sport and-adventure nothing could be better than this gallant and light-hearted book.
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