International: Manure Set

JUST HUNTING — Harry T. Peters— Scribner ($7.50).

Though organized fox-hunting is 50 years old in the U. S., the sport is still on the defensive. Nonhunting, non-Anglophile sportsmen are apt to see something silly in the expensive preoccupations of the "manure set," while plain citizens are apathetic if not hostile. The hunting set itself, impregnably self-sufficient as it tries to appear, is uncomfortably aware that they order these things better in England. This popular U. S. attitude toward fox-hunting is reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S....

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