New-York tribune., 1907-10-02
4 Sportsman's ScrapbOOk Of Pct
ares and Impressions.

light and Rife in Equatorl2I E4as' am
scarcely repeats that sensation III MS new Noi-
ume, IN Widest Africa (F7arper q Dios''
t,7+ e+ least he succeeds in assembling a guam
80. - ,-+oro.+f,o nictlres accompanied by
.aa.bre er5 occasionally useful notes OF eX-
,,ario,,ce The popularity Of the earlier work
1.,-ino encouraged the author to try again, he
would annear to have overhauled MS poruo1os
and his memory for such odds and ends IS
Zrou1d serve 10 make a book. he peslhs Win a
Inrp and more or less impresslonsuc. paper on
,be smell Of the African veldt. Ihen ne con-
TRACTS old pictures Of animals with the Hash
49, ,,ortraits of our own time. He discourses
- 4l,a canpaien Of determination which has
,a.n eoing on among the wild beasts of the
,,.,Iderness and makes his plea for wiser
,,o,fcv Now and then he gives US a glimpse of
snort elsewhere than in Africa. Here, for ex-
annie is a note on the subject in his native
land:
According 10 a moderate estimate there are
!1 Germany lpw2Tg ara Of 3 half n 1 million sporsmen
fallow deer, about 2o2oe0 roebuck. 100000 hares:
some 2560e0 Kilograms oover 80 900 Oo0 pounds Of
wild game. Of value Of - 5000 marks III 10000.
and forT!inE nearly Per cent Of the total meat
about 100000 marks annually G2oo0OoN But
these very sp9TtsInen who every year Kill such
q large quantity of wild animals. must at the
same animal iifei Strange as It may seem, many
species Of wild animals would have been long ago
reasons the hunter must at the same time Under
take the part Of protector.
Fragments Of information Ike this have their
value, and they are scattered rather freely
through Mr.. SchiIlings's pages. Nevertheless
while we are grateful for some Of his facts. and
ara interested in his chapter on the photograph
ing Of wild animals, We must confess that in
this case the Illustrations are what chiefly count
These are fascinating. The author does not re-
touch his flashlights. but prints them in all
their artIessness. In consequence he gives US a
really intimate impression of the veldt and the
jungle. one Of his photographs shows swiftly
moving lion taken at close range. There is
something fairy exciting about the picture
Again and again IN this volume the reader feels
almost as If h himself were in close proximity
10 the dangerous brutes portrayed There are
here. TOO, photographs which are not simply
wonderful studies in realism. but uncommonly
luminous souvenirs Of the beauty Of wild nature
In short while Dr. SChillings gave US all that he
had TO give Us, that startngly new and
important, in his first volume. he makes when
ell is said. an entertaining appeal in his second
The F. a. Stokes Company Will soon publish
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett's new novel,
''The Shuttle" An international marriage plays
an important part in the story, but the writer
attempts 10 give her work a wide scope, bring
ing into her love story "a thousand other
things" Abiding 10 her qualifications in this
enterprise, Mrs Burnett says, in a letter quoted
TX her publishers, because am English by
birth and American by a sort Of adoption and
because have vibrated between the two conti-
nents for years, I have learned to be imoer-
sonal and bipartisan. was neither American
nor English when I told the story"
sTa -Trr pF
whose love OF books carries them into the re-
mote and difficult field of Jewish writings Mr..
Israel Abrahams, an instructor IN the University
Of Cambridge has written "a Short History Of
Jewish Literature Imported by Charles Serb
ner's Sons) Mr.. Abrahams has sought ito
trace influences, TO observe periods and to dis
tinguish countries" Beginning with the ethical
and religious works OF the Vineyard at Jamnia,
after the destruction Of the Temple at Jerusa-
lem in 20 a D., the historian traces very briefly
but not duly the numerous ramIncations Of
Jewish literary activity in many lands down to
the eighteenth century, when Moses Mendelssohn
inaugurated IN Germany the modern period.
Doubtless many readers viii regret that Mr.
Abrahams has not given d sketch Of nineteenth
century ghetto and Zionistic literature. But as
the author correctly observes, q fair treatment
Of the newer Judaism would be impossible within
the confines Of a hand manual. For the same
reason, Mr.. Abraharns has not touched upon the
Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, nor the vast and
interesting Alexandrian literature. The present
golume has a peculiarly limited value on this
account.
In a discussion Of Mr Everard's new "EIis-
tory Of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. St.
Andrews" Mr.. Andrew Lang has some interest
ing notes on the origin Of the game Was golf
brought 70 Scotland from Holland? Mr.. Lang
thus answers the question:
Visiting Holland in 1899. Mr. Cunningham OBJ
served IN the Rotterdam Gallery a picture by Jan
Sdeen tI6-G-sS % "a picture IN which little Dutch
i ali Is sRgins @ nd2H5ted 2iS t golf S6 @ elSo
Of driver This picture LED Air Cunningham to m
Steen is late in relation TO Scottish golf We know
mat the game was so popular in Scotland two CEN
turies before Jan Steen that Parliament pronounced
y lIegat 2len Ongnt 10 De practising archery alid
!eaTIlng 70 hold their against the English bow
paid any attention 70 acts Of Parliament ana golf
Went pil IneIlr5iy. We do not know how much older
ana clubs Were at first brought from Holland. Tie
AeE MT, Blar ;s ABOUT 1850 drew parable from the
dreWs preacher; and rather an irreverend ass than
,jeft have lent he rar - IT lie mat & 2cotland
ningham proves that the phrase ''stirny' is Dutch
while net LoJen is Dutch for the golf" and our
Clearly if Scotland borrowed the terms Of the game
from Holland. al Europe borrowed the terms of
tennis from France. Holland IS the cradle of golf
France IS the cradle OF tennis ] greatly
guilty Of having stated mat james VI capped
heavy tariff On Dutch Eolf balls and so enabled tie
my history Of goll, in the I3admlnton Book for
this piece of tariff reform, but who my
thority? Mr Cunningham should have verified my
iact in acts Of Parliament or In the records Of
IriVV Council ] not Of my fact,
Scots Golf halls were of wood like tie balls used ~
gen de mail in the eighteenth century When balls
is99l We do not Prec1seIy Know oo ~ H. ne NefeI
into hofFa than and