23 MARCH 1889, Page 24

Hunting in Hard Times. By G. Bowers. (Chapman and Hall.)

—" Brother John, a bachelor, and myself, a confirmed old-maid," take a hunting-box for the season ; and the "confirmed old-maid" portrays their adventures with her pencil, adventures both sporting and social. Of course, bachelor John sees reason to alter his condition, finding a Miss Juniper, whom his sister describes as " good-natured, stout, and over-dressed," to be a "very fine

duly followed by the old-maid with a note of admiration. The sketches are clever and humorous, and evidently the work of a man who knows what he is about.