Sporting Sketches

Abstract

MR. EDWYN SANDYS is so well known to bird-lovers and sportsmen in general by such works as “Upland Game Birds” that any volume of a somewhat similar nature is almost sure of a hearty reception on the part of that section of the public to which it more specially appeals. In the volume before us the author has collected together a number of articles on sporting subjects which originally appeared in that excellent American sporting magazine Outing, and to these he has apparently added others which now see the light for the first time. Whether, however, new or old—and the author seemingly gives us no clue on this point—the articles have such a freshness about them, and savour so strongly of the prairie or the river bank, that the lover of an outdoor life must be hard indeed to please if he cannot find matter of interest on almost any page to which he may happen to turn. The chapter-headings in some instances appear to be designed, at least to an English reader, to conceal rather than to elucidate the author's subjects, and we venture to think that some less recondite titles than “The Witchery of Wa-Wa” and “A Matter of Mascalouge” might have been selected without detriment to the picturesque style which the author apparently favours. But when once this little difficulty has been overcome, the reader will be able to find his way about the book, and select those sections in which he may be more specially interested.

Sporting Sketches.

By E. Sandys. Pp. vii + 389; illustrated. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1905.) Price 7s. 6d. net.