... '4Jarc arrx ;Iamnco BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE THE Easter holidays were characterised by the strangest samples of climate, unusual even in our capricious climate. Storms of wind wrecked boats, broke down trees, and hurled a cyclist across the road violently against a shop-window, injuring him severely. The lightning struck a poor girl standing on the sands at Ramsgate and enveloped her in a ...

... A MOONLIGHT HARVEST IN THE HIGHLANDS: WAITING FOR TllHE CA1L' DRAWN BY A. G. SMALL ?? the 4Iknitcctlth CCturi: ,Sport5 anb 13&btilmtrs By AtLFRED r. WrSONff IT is a curious fact that whereas during the first three- quarters of the century there were comparatively few notable changes in popular sports and pastimes, during the last quarter so many novelties have come into practice. About the ...

... 2iporrt in Ear tSPORT IN WAR (Heinemann) consists of a series of articles by Major-General Baden-Powell, reprinted from the Badminton AMaaine. The first of these, Sport in War, deals with Rhodesia during the Matabele Campaign, when, in addition to hunting game, the enemy also had to be hunted, which entailed a great deal of scouting, at which the author, as everyone knows, is an adept. ...

... (flfltet3 of ?? Ceunl By comets of the cricket season we do not mean the cricketers whose naames are as familiar on the last day of the season as on the first, and whose planetary light is always to be found at the zenith of the average tables-the Ranjitsinhjis, Haywards and Abel, the lEhodeses, Haighs and Trotts - nor do we even mean those constellations of cricketers who, like Yorkshire, ...

... G. A. Lloyd (cox) S. P. Cockerell (bow) B. W. D. Brooke (3) G. M. Maitland (spore moan) C. J. W.di (o) ?? R. H. Sanderson (6) J. H. Gibbon (stroke) IV. Dudley-Ward (7) J. E. Payne (4) R. B. Etherington-Smith () THE CAMBRIDGE CREW ,Jport Milan QC fdar AN Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race which seems likely to be less a race than a row over is one of several striking symptoms of the effect which ...

... divert it it Wife in t t ?? AIR. BAILLIE.GROIMAN iS a recognised authority on big-game shooting, and an accomplished writer, and a volume from his pen is always sure of a hearty welcome from sportsmen of all kinds. The present volume deals with fiftcen years of his life spent on the Pacific Slope-that is to say, he spent the majority of each of these years out there, maring British Columbia ...

... Up algillibi, 'NalliDall By 11.4 U L 9D C 0X Tiir additional sum of nearly 2,000,000/. which Parliament has been asked to vote for the Uganda Railway has once more brought this East African line prominently before the British public. It must be admitted that an increase of 2,coo,000l. on an original estimate of 3,000,000l. is a serious matter, but the explanation put forward by the officials ...

... lje Grichut Outlook PROSPECTS of an attempt by an English eleven to bring back the ashes from Australia this year vanished almost before the end of last season. The Lion and the Kangaroo, instead of struggling on the wickets of Melbourne and Sydney, are now playing a combined team on the fields of the Orange Free State. Another struggle which the war has postponed is that which would have ...

... '' arC ax Atic L t BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE THE Duke of Manchester's marriage appears to have crew e considerable stir, especially among journalists ; and the yOaUJI I), has expressed himself in somewhat plain and manly terms a! t the matter. He says:- Surely anl ordinary person like my ,lif ? ?? get married if he wants to, and not have the whole coI: gossiping about it. It seemed to me ...

... T he 4c to troquet SONiE one has said that fashion in games resembles a cask in which old games are flung pell-mell. Then, when the cask is full, it is turned upside down, and those at the bottom jump out at the top with all the freshness of novelty. But croquet has an experience different from that of any other game. In the sixties and seventies it had a success which is enshrined in Du ...

... MfDlr N00o1 onl cort THOUGHTS ON HUNTING by Peter Beckford, Esq., is so well known and so deservedly popular that to criticise it would be a work of supererogation on our part. Written a hundred and twenty years ago, it has ever since been considered one of the classics of hunting literature. Many editions of it have appeared during that time, to which may be added one just published by ...

... cfamj?us UGILY, EAGER, AND MERMAN IN our supplement are shown eleven of the most famous racehorses of the present day, everyone of which has distin- guished himself greatly during the last few racing seasons.- The greatest performer of the lot is the almost incomparable Flying Fox, but perhaps it will be as well to treat briefly of each, and, going on the plan of selictres priores, Ugly ...