AN ALPHABET OF SHOOTING By Eric Parker
Those who have shot with Mr. Eric Parker or, reading some of his vivid writings, have imagined themselves doing so, know how, besides skill, culture, care and courtesy can be combined in sport. The Field publishes a short, but hand- some book, An Alphabet of Shooting (7s. 6d.), to which he writes a " Foreword ' and a series-of legends that draw lessons from photographs by Mr. Niall Rankin of right and wrong ways of behaving with a gun. One must admire these line pictures, even if one must shudder at some of them, *as, indeed, we are meant to do. A boy would gain enormously from propping the book up in front of him before going out alone or with others, and acting the parts in the pictures. If he learns the lessons duly, he and his companions need fear no accidents. The two teachers thus follow the doctrine that Segniue irritant animas dernissa per aurent, Quant quae aunt OCUli8 aubjecta ficielibua.
And they are justified. A word of thanks should he offered to Mr. Rankin's friends who in so good a cause have allowed themselves to be pilloried by his camera, committing the worst atrocities with the utter complacency of incorrigibles.
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