Place on the Cashmere mountains, preying chiefly upon musk-deer, sheep, and dogs. The wild dog of these ranges is so stealthy in its habits, that all Dr. Adams' attempts to obtain specimens failed. "I devoted ten days." he tells us, to the pursuit of a pack, and followed their fresh trail over many dangerous and difficult places; but they were too knowing, and kept out of sight." They hunt in packs, and the Cashmere stig, which the leopard itself fears, is said to be brought to bay and killed by them. The principal excursions undertaken by the author were made to the Chor mountain, Salt mountains of the Punjaub, and to the Northern Pinjal. In the earlier part of his book, he cursorily observes that the sportsman “who starts with a light heart, and bent on combining instraction with amusement, need seldom know a dull moment. At every step something new or curious attracts his eye. He kills his birds, and, when tired, sits down with a keen appetite to enjoy the prodase of his day's healthy amusement, his little tent pitched on some hill-side clothed with verdure and fair exotics;" but applicable as this language may be to the shooting grounds for black or grey partridge, kaj pheasant, and many others of the feathered tribe, not omitting a random shot at a barking deer, lofter aspirations will fire the enterprising and ambitious on reading the vigorously-worded doings of those expeditions in search of game worthy of perils dared amidst the sublimest scenery, where avalanches thundering down the mountain steeps, hurl huge masses of rock and uprooted trees in their course, or wreathing mists or snowstorms blind the adventurer near the edge of some terrible abyss. "It is wonderful," says the author, "how the excitement of the chase carries one over dangerous or difficult places-a break-neck sort of indifference seizes you; you rush on regardless of obstacles, which in cooler moments might cause considerable concern." The following apostrophe, too, which occurs during a brief account of a successful three days' traverse upon the trail of Cashmere deer, is befitting a true-hearted sportsman. He has singled out and shot the largest back with the right, brought down an old hind with the left barrel, planted a bullet against the shoulder of a young hart, a fourth animal receiving the last ball. "With all the satisfaction, and even pride, experienced by the hunter on occasions like the above," he says "I will candidly assert that, with an ardour and love for the chase equal to most men, I have more than once experienced a sorrowful feeling after the work of destruction was over, and I came to gaze on the noble frame I had deprived of existence." It ought, nevertheless, to have yielded him no slight consolation to this reflection, in this instancethat the carcases of the slain deer having been protected by watchers against bears and panthers during the night, the half-starved people of the village of Yenaar fared sumptuously on venison the next day. Nothing apparently escaped his eye. Of this there is evidence throughout Dr. Adams' book, whatever occasionally escaped his bul lets, on which score his candour justifies self-gratulation, when skill and fortune favoured him. The friendly rivalry between him and his col leagues we can imagine, and here we give a game-list, the produce of six months' sport, and which, considering," he remarks, "that we were more intent on sight-seeing than the chase, is perhaps by no means contemptible. To Young's rifle fell 29 bears, 2 deer, 2 ibex ; to mine, 7 bears, 5 deer, and 1 musk deer; Halkett bagged 8 bears, 1 deer, 2 musk-deer; grand total, 57 head." In a subsequent visit to Cashmere, the Doctor killed 17 bears, 2 ibex, 2 markhore, 1 tare, and 6 musk deer, though within what period does not appear. We are not forgetful of the fact that the author comes before the public as a naturalist, though we have here mainly spoken of his prowess as a sportsman, and we cannot more appropriately close this notice than by recommending the following comments to the scientific fraternity, of which he is so practical and learned a member: "It is wonderful how much climate and situation influence the size and natural appearance of individual species," he says; "I do not think naturalists are sufficiently alive to this." And, after adducing instances in support, he intimates that "it would be well if indoor students made a somewhat more liberal allowance when determining individual specific distinctions." Again: "It is a great pity, where a species is found somewhat different from a given type, that we should not allow it a place among the varieties of that type and species, until such time as proper comparison has been instituted between them. This rage for species-making' is not confined solely to cabinet naturalists, but, I regret to think, for the sake of science, that rather than be behindhand, or that another should make the discovery, it is the custom with even many of our best-known field-ornithologists to give a separate specific name to every individual that differs in the slightest degree from another." A frontispiece to the volume, in a cleverly-executed woodcut, presents a view of the crocodile pond or Mugger-peer, to the north-west of Kurrachee. A HANDBOOK OF GYMNASTICS AND ATHLETICS. By F. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S., &c., President of the German Gymnastic Society, London; and John Hulley, Gymnasiarch of Liverpool. The object of this handbook is like that of Lord St. Leonard's Handy Law Book, to render the study of gymnastics easy to the meanest capacity. It is intended primarily for the use of gymnastic and athletic clubs; but by omitting some of the more arduous exercises, it can be used also in connection with schools, and admirably well has the subject been treated. In an introductory chapter, we have a very graphie historical sketch of the physical and mental training of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and in more modern days of the Germans, Swedes, French, and English. This is followed by a very able treatise upon military gymnastics, medical gymnastics, school gymnastics, spectacular or show gymnastics, and national or popular gymnastics. The authors then proceed to give some most important advice upon the formation and constitution of gymnastic societies, and the manner of conducting the exercises. A chapter headed "Hygiene" contains rules for preserving health, and for training, which, if followed, would ruin the medical professor, or at least reduce his fees considerably. In addition to physical education, manly exercises, and every species of gymnastics, we have some extremely clever and practical remarks upon boating, cricket, football, fives, and other national amusements, all of which are given in pure simple, yet expressive language, thus rendering the volume not only instructive, but amusing. The woodcut illustra tions, which are numerous, are most artistically executed; indeed for letter-press, type, paper, illustrations, and binding, the work under notice is nulli secundus, and reflects the greatest credit on the authors and publisher, Trübner and Co., London. Mr. John Hulley, than whom a more public-spirited or popular man does not exist, will add anether laurel to his well-earned wreath, and the authors of the Handy Book of Gymnastics will prove themselves what Hoyle was and “Cavendish" is on whist, what Buckland is as a naturalist, what Delmé Radcliffe is as a sporting writer, what Scrope is as a deerstalker, namely authorities on every question connected with physical games, while their work will merit a place as a standard volume in the library of every English gentleman, and will be found on the shelves of every school and college throughout the breadth of the land. "Hog-Hunting in the East, and Other Sports," by Captain J. T. Newall (Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine-street, Strand), will be noticed in our next. The publisher of "English Deer Parks," by Mr. Evelyn Shirley, a notice of which work appeared in our last, is Mr. Murray, of Albemarle-street. STATE OF THE ODDS, &c. SALES OF BLOOD STOCK. By Messrs. 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