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(Continued from page 511.) 'No one in England is better qualified than Colonel Geoffrey Brooke to write of modern polo, hunting, racing, and par- ticularly of show-jumping in which he has won so many laurels. The Way of a Man with a Horse is the first of a new series (The Lonsdale Library, Seeley, Service, 21s.) which will do for our youngsters what the Badminton Library did for us. Colonel Brooke has included in his volume a chapter on pigsticking by Colonel Arthur Brooke and veterinary notes by Colonel Todd, so that the work is really a complete conspectus of horsemanship and horsemastership. As a gift to a boy we can thoroughly recommend it, but all of us who are not too set in our ways can pick up useful hints from the author, who draws from all kinds of sources for his argument, from Xenophon to his own wide and varied experience. The illustrations are excellent.
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