Scottish Moors and Indian Jungles. By Captain J. T. Newell.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—Captain Newall has added another to the already long list of books on Indian sport, in which he seems to have been most active in the pig-sticking line, and there, like a thorough shikaree, to have preferred tracking up his own boar, and then riding him, a much more sporting plan than the ordinary one of employing a large number of beaters. In pursuit of this sport, Captain Newall met with the accident which one would have thought would have compelled him, through a fracture of the spine, to abandon all active exertion. But no, with wonderful spirit, he designed a species of litter in which, borne by stalwart Highland gillies in the Lewis, he stalks his stag, shoots woodcock, and kills salmon successfully. It is this carrying on sport after such a frightful accident that renders the book individual, and should cheer up many who may despair of ever holding a rifle or rod again. The book is cheerfully and pleasantly written, and illustrated by the author himself, which, especially in sporting illustrations, adds a certain interest.
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