Crotchets and Foibles. By the Hon. Arthur Bligh. (j. W.
Arrowsmith. 3s. 6d.)—These seven " Stories of Shooting, Cricket, and Golf '! make fairly good reading. The "Home Beat " is, perhaps, the most powerful. It exhibits in a very strong light some of the evils of sport now that its commercial side is so strongly developed. More pleasant reading, and but little, if at all, inferior in merit, is " A Father's Self-Sacrifice." The father is one of the honest and manly but somewhat narrow-minded Englishmen who have very definite views as to what their sons should be ; the son is one of those strange " sports " in which Nature sometimes indulges. Nothing will satisfy him but to be an artist. We can imagine the blow that such ambitions would be to an old-fashioned squire. The story of how the fight was fought out is excellently well told.
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