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The multitudinous humours of the links have never been exploited with higher spirits or more ingenious resource than in Mr. Wodehouse's chronicles, which concern not merely Cuthbert, but half-a-score or more of heroes of the niblick whose lives were made or marred by golf. One of the tales goes as far back as the unhistorical times of King Merolchazzar of Oom, to whose shores was brought a captive from an inhospitable coast known to the natives as S'nan-drews, with results highly damaging to the morality of the country. But the other pages are of to-day, and describe in Mr. Wodehouse's happiest vein the re-actions of love and golf, and the various rigours and ardour of the game. If you want to' know how Lenin and Trotsky play at Nijni-Novgorod you will find it here; you may also learn how Ralph Bingham and Arthur Jukes played for a lady's hand-across sixteen miles of extremely varied country, and both lost. Let it be said that the technicalities are in no way formid. able to the lay reader, and that the book may be put with every
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