Gun, Rifle, and Hound. By " Snaffle." Illustrated. (Chapman and
Hall.)—These reminiscences are of the usual sporting type, though they include an unusual variety of shooting and hunting experiences. The writer seems to have tried his hand at most kinds of sport, from badger-hunting and " spring woodcock shoot- ing " in Germany, to " shark-shooting " in the Mauritius, and hunting with hounds in India, including much of the sport that India and Ceylon afford. All these are described with plenty of spirit, and if there is nothing new in the account of some of his runs with stag and fox hounds, and his English reminiscences, sportsmen will read them with the customary appetite, and perhaps more than ordinary pleasure, as they are evidently the impressions of a keen sportsman and a good-humoured observer of character.
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