10 DECEMBER 1927, Page 20

Mr. Cummings Hunting Tours of Surtees (Blackwoods, 20s.) consists of

papers which Surtee& wrote for the Sporting Magazine, and later his own publication, the New Sporting Magazine. The book is illustrated in 'colourby Mr. Armour (the wise will need no further eulogy to make them buy) and from contemporary prints.. Lovers of old Jorrocks will welcome this volume, which is full of descriptions of hunts and post-inns and country houses in the author's inimitable, buoyant, shrewd manner. It contains, in addition, many pleasant sidelights on history and a vivid and candid account of Surtces meeting the Duke of Wellington and what he thought of him as a rider to hounds.