How I Became a Sportsman. By Avon. (Chapman and Hall.)—
This is a pleasant book of sporting reminiscences, experiences of hunting, shooting, and fishing, told, all of them agreeably, with just the little tincture of letters that all such reminiscences should have, if they are to be distinguished at all from mere records of slaughter. On one book, indeed, the " Witticisms of Joe Miller," the author draws, perhaps, a little too much. The story of the rustic who thought that he had killed a "cherubim," the said creature being an owl, and of the pious grocer who bid his apprentice come to prayers after sanding the sugar and watering the tobacco, are very old friends. Surely the sporting squire, whatever his fine qualities, could hardly be said to be "a good specimen of the country gentleman," if he was " about four feet nine inches in height."
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