At the Tail of the Hounds. By Mrs. E. Kennard.
(F. V. White.) —Major Gruffoldi, the hero of another of Mrs. Kennard's hunt- ing stories, is a really good character. Our author describes in him a type of the hard-headed hunting man of the rough-and- ready, swearing kind, not over-scrupulous, but on the whole a very fair specimen of an Englishman, and with some instincts 'of the gentleman in him. He is, to be sure, a common enough type. There are some capital descriptions of runs; one is generally certain to find them in Mrs. Kennard's novels, and few can do them better. We have observed before occasional lapses from good taste on the part of our authoress, and it is a pity to have to notice them, At the Tail of the Hounds has also a 'heroine of the kind known to most hunting counties, almost as treacly with her tongue as old " Gruffo" is himself ; they form a well-assorted pair, and will afford considerable amusement.
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