Fifty Years of Golf : My Memories. By "Andra "
Kirkaldy, of St. Andrews, told to.Clyde Foster. (T. Fisher Unwin. 12s. 6d.
net.)—Golfers will find this an entertaining book. The well. known St. Andrews professional tells many good stories of the links and of the eminent people with whom he has played, especially Mr. Balfour and Lard Haig, and recalls the famous players of his youth, among whom he puts first " young " Tom Morris, whose monument strikes a painfully discordant note in the burial ground of St. Andrews Cathedral. Kirkaldy served his time in the Army and was wounded at Tel-el-Kebir, but he has spent the rest of his life at St. Andrews. Through ill-luck he failed to win the championship. He cannot refrain from writing a chapter on "The Making of a Golfer," though ke admits that books on golf usually put the reader off his game. His advice is to practice swinging the clubs without a ball—advice that few will be strong-minded enough to take. One of his brief and pertinent stories is of a former caddie "that a St. Andrews minister tried to reform. Meeting him one day, he said : Davie, I was very glad to see you at the prayer-meeting last night.' '0, that's whaur I got tae, was it ? ' said Davie."
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