Shorter Notices.
Golf, My Life's Work. By J. H. Taylor. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) No man arrives at the position of being a first-class professional at any game without having remarkable qualities, but it is rarely that a championship player adds to these the capacity to write well about his experiences, but Mr Taylor is one of these rare exceptions. Three times winner of the Open Championship, winning it for the first time at the age of twenty-three, and twice winner of the French championship, he writes with the authority of a master, but he also writes with the urbanity and liveliness of a personality of grea charm as well as of doughty courage. The secret of all great players is " concentration " • not the voluntary concentration of the will which is as unhelpful in-sport as it is in art—but the inspired, in voluntary concentration of the specially gifted. "To try to play gol really well is far from being a joke and light-heartedness of endea your is a sure sign of eventual failure," says Mr. Taylor, and her speaks the truly gifted player. Not only golfers will enjoy this boo which they cannot afford to miss, but all who have ever been tru amateurs of any game will find delight as well as instruction in i
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