Tiger-Shooting in. the Doom and Ulwar. By Lieutenant-Colonel J. C.
Fife.Cookson. (Chapman and Hall.)—The absolutely direct, simple, businesslike style of Colonel Fife-Cookson's narrative, will commend it to every reader who, whether he be himself a sportsman or no, likes to hear of adventure. His first expedition was to Debra Boon (in the N.W. Provinces, and near the foot of the Himalayas). This was unsuccessful, luck always going against the sportsmen. The second was to Ulwar (sometimes, we think, spelt " Alwar "), a small Rajpootana State somewhat more than a hundred and twenty miles to the N.W. of Agra. Here the author and his companion had better fortune, securing four tigers, three of them being killed on one day. The hunting was diversified with his other sports, deer-shooting, for instance, and fishing in the Himalayan streams, and there are some deactiPtions of Indian life. Among the scenes of Colonel
Cookson's adventures was Nynee Tal, where afterwards the terrible landslip took place. A very good practical book of its kind is this.
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