Something about Horses, Sport, and War. By H. S. Constable.
(Eden, Remington, and Co.)—Out of this rather amusing jumble of remarks, we gather that Mr. Strickland has an honest hatred of " low-type " races,—democrats, humanitarians, the middle classes, Quakers, foreigners, and, in fact, all "low-type " people. He does not actually say this ; but if he had said, ' I hate all those who do not hunt,' he would have explained in as many words what has taken him chapters to pour out. There is a fox- hunting smack about his hastiness, his devotion to sport, and his confusion of men and beliefs, principles and parties. However, there is plenty of sense and healthy manliness in the often dis- connected and rambling discourses—they have been reprinted from newspapers—and he belabours sentimentalism, and the fear of bloodguiltiness, unmercifully, and tilts at Quakers, often un- fairly. His deductions as to the degrading effects of industrialism are foolish, however, and will not hold water ; neither is he right in describing the Americans, or even the English, as warlike.
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