Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel. By Colonel Pollock. (Chapman
and Hall.)—Colonel Pollock is one of the few born sportsmen who can write, and thus enable others to participate in the keen delights of hunting. As far as we can make out, his whole life from infancy seems to have been spent in India, and he seems to have had a wonderful constitution. His work lay almost entirely in the best sporting countries of our Indian Empire. He begins naturally with tiger-shooting, and relates some thrilling experiences in the Nizam's territory and in Burmah. Perhaps the sport which Colonel Pollock describes with most animation and success is pig sticking; this, in common with many Indian sportsmen, he declares to be the finest sport in the world. The mixed shooting in Burmah was productive of some exciting days, including a fire, and of course many tigers. It is impossible to refer to all the chapters, including those on African and Syrian sport ; but one and all reveal an astonishing memory for the incidents and details of many and many an ex- citing hunt, which is vividly presented to us in a vigorous and often picturesque narrative. Colonel Pollock's nerve, and his unconquerable energy and activity, account for much of his success, as also must his luck and keen observation of animal life. He seems, moreover, to have the knack, which is very rare, of being able to take snap-shots with the rifle ; and if we add to this a presence of mind which never seems to have failed him, we can understand his success in securing game and extricating himself from difficulties. He has done much work as well as sport; at one time, indeed, he had the management of a convict settlement. This is an attractive book to sportsmen ; indeed, there will be few books to compare with it in fascination.
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