Leaves from the Records of St. Hubert's Club; or, Reminiscences
of Sporting Expeditions in Many Lands. By Captain Bulger, 10th Regiment. (London, L. Booth.)—Books of adventure are always accep- table to a large class of readers who are not the most critical judges in respect of style, but even a very exacting judge will find little to censure in this respect in the volume before us. The hero has succeeded in interesting the reader in his personality without obtruding himself and his doings in excess. The abruptness with which the adventures are introduced, the variety of the subjects, and the modesty and spirit of the tone throughout make the reader's business an easy and agreeable one, while with a good taste as rare in these days as it is welcome the author religiously abstains from that cumbrous and laboured pleasantry on irrelevant topics which so often seems to prove that he is mainly intent on increasing the bulk of his manufacture.
Indeed it is rare to meet with a book more entirely free from the fault of "book-making." This inartiflcial tone gives a very real and life-like aspect to the incidents, and affords more genuine wholesome excitement than is often attained by works of greater pretensien. The story of the tiger-hunt in particular is told with great power and feeling.
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