25 JANUARY 1890, Page 43

Sporting Anecdotes. Edited by " Ellangowan." (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—Many

of these anecdotes we have seen before, but a great many are new, and if they have appeared in print before, have probably been lost. We should be grateful, therefore, to the editor for collecting them. Interesting as these sporting stories are, taken individually, we cannot help thinking that they might have been better arranged. As for the literary merit of the anecdotes, it is very unequal ; this, no one can wonder at ; still, the fact remains that a good story is all the better for being well told. Sporting Anecdotes will doubtless find its way into most gentlemen's, that is to say, sporting gentlemen's libraries.