Sandy Married. By Dorothea Conyers. (Methuen and Co. 6a.)—This book
will be as entertaining to those readers who have never read anything about Sandy at all as to those who have met him in the former book, of which be is the hero. We cannot say that the plot is very credible or that all the English characters are very lifelike, but the scenes which pass in Ireland are delightfully drawn and the equine characters of the book are specially well depicted. Those who like to read about hunting and racing—the latter from the point of view of horses, not betting—will delight in the stories of the splendid runs which Mrs. Conyers describes. The author takes full advantage of the well-known circumstance that anything may happen at the Grand National, but even so it is rather difficult to believe in the victory of the quiet "Pop Gun." The descriptions of the horse sales are perhaps the most lifelike things in the book, and no one who has ever purchased a horse in a Celtic country would deny their authenticity.
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