PONIES—AND A PUMA
Joanna Carman is unbeatable. Another Pony for Jean (Coffins, 8s. 6d.) is a successor to her first book, though it is complete in itself. Jean's first hunt is a flop, and so is her bantam house, but after the Pony Club Hunter Trials we leave her on top of the world. The Silver Eagle .kiding School, by Primrose Cumming (Black, is.), tells of the brave and successful efforts of three sisters to establish a riding school. Their different and rather difficult personalities and those of pupils and ponies make a good story.
A most ambitious first book is Plain Jane, the story of a Shetland Pony, by Mary Colville, aged thirteen (Coffins, 6s.). The author makes her task more difficult by using the first person, and if some incidents are reminiscent of the classics, few readers will object. The last half is excellent and original. This book holds its own in very good company.
Tawny Goes Hunting, by Allen Chaffee and Paul Branson (Murray, 6s.), is a really attractive book which is also authentic natural history. It is a well illustrated, exciting account of the first years of a Puma's life.
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