... , which replaces the old Point-to-Point Calen dar, is a first-class handbook for those inter ested. It has just been issued again and covers the 1947 season. The Point-to-Point people just missed the frosts and floods which killed National Hunt racing last year, and had a very successful season the record is, accordingly, a full one, devoid of blanks in the fixture list. The little book, like ...

... BEHIND THE SCENES IN BIG FOOT BALL The name and reputation of the author Leslie Knighton is a guarantee chat this is an authoritative and authenti cated work. It is well written, illustrated and packed with what are undoubtedly true, behind-the-scene stories. Stanley Paul, Ltd., London, 16s. ...

... - -1948 We are often asked by our readers whether Ashley Courtenay's Hotel Discoveries could not be reproduced in book form. To a large extent they are. Ashley Courtenay's Let's Halt Awhile, is now a hardy annual of which the 1 94s edition has made a welcome early appearance this year. Well illustrated and describing some 500 of his personally recommended hotels, we commend it par ticularly ...

... Horses, Hounds and Hunting, by Frances Put (Country Life £2 2 s.). Probably a large percentage of the regular readers of Miss Pitt's popular natural history articles and books are unaware that she has been for some years Master of the Wheatland Hounds in Shropshire. She explains that, asked to write another nature book, she replied Nature can go to Jericho. I am going to write about something ...

... Log Book for Grace, by Robert Cushman Murphy [Robert Hale 1 55.). This is an altogether delight ful journal of a young naturalist who spent a year between 191 2 and 1 91 3 on one of the last of the American square-rigged blubber- hunters. To-day, Dr. Murphy is a distinguished ornithologist, and has led many other scientific expedi tions, but this is the first publica tion of the diary he kept ...

... Ballet Renaissance, by Audrey Williamson 1 [Golden Galley Press rjo.;. xaaiug uci Lxieuie oaiiei. must develop in the present, not live in its past, Miss Williamson studies the years 1945-47 an(l claims that they have seen a great renaissance in ballet. The book commences with a brief explanation of terms and meanings then Miss William son describes and criticises major performances in this ...

... The Shooting Man's Bedside Book. Compiled by B.B. (Eyre and Spottiswoode 12s. 6 d. Leather bound 21s.). For choice of authors, for variety of subjects, for the simple yet charming illustrations (by Watkins-Pitchford), and for the make-up and printing we con gratulate B.B. and the pub lishers. This book, whether in cloth or more lordly leather, will give much pleasure. ...

... The Yachtsman's Annual, 1 1948-49, edited by K. Adlard Coles (Robert Ross 30s.). With a special supplement on Olympics and Dinghies by Ian Proctor, the book is a brilliant summary of a brilliant year in British yachting. Over ioo photographs and very many draw ings and plans, together with charts in colour of the new uniform buoys, top marks and lights introduced in 1948 make this book full ...

... Theatre, by Harold Hobson j Longmans ureen 12 s. oa.). ivir. Hobson, the Sunday Times dra- jj matic critic, has collected together I his notices on the Theatre from I September, 1946, to December, ;l 1947, to form a diary of contem- I porary drama. He has tried to I give a balanced picture by including 9 quotations from other eminent I critics, notably in the case of Miss J Herlie's ...

... Elizabeth Bcwetis MR. R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW'S auto biography, 46 Not Out (Hollis and Carter; 10s. 6d.), is the sort of thing which, he says, should be done in the flower of life, before age has brought either the cynicism which smiles so irritatingly on all human endeavour or the complacency which sits back and awaits the opening of the golden gates. True. May one add, there are two ...

... cut Tfe- ^itiuCCuU Anthony Cook/nan with Tow Titt Rain on the Just (Aid wye h) IT is a pity that so many have likened this exciting first play to The Cherry Orchard. A high compliment, of course, yet of the sort rather likely to turn a new play which deserves a lone run into a succes d'cstimc. The pleasure that Mr. Peter Waiting's story offers is not particularly Tchehovian. True, his theme is ...

... (t$7 ^tfuuCkj^ Saloon Bar (Garrick) Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt A SALOON bar should always (to my think ing) be a survival from the past. The past need not be very remote and I have no romantic allegiance to oak beams, but it should be at least far enough away for us to feel that we have by happy chance cast anchor for a brief while in a cosier age than our own. The saloon bar of the Cap ...