Home life in Hellas, Greece and the Greeks - eBooks4Greeks.gr

"Dammy, that's your sort."Daily Chronicle." More enthralling than the most romantic novel." Sporting Life.FORTY YEARS OF ASPORTSMAN'S LIFEBYSir Claude Champion de Crespigny, Bt.With 15 illustrations, and a portrait in photogravureSecond Edition. Demy Svo. 10s. 6d. netMILLS & BOON find it difficult to decide which reviews toquote for this magnificent Sporting Volume, which hasbeen reviewed enthusiastically by almost every organ ofnote in Great Britain, and so interesting have the reviewersfound it that notices have appeared running to OVERTHIRTY-TWO FEET within six days of publication.In choosing that which appeared in The Daily Telegraphit must not be inferred that it is the most favourable or the longest{The Sporting Life devoted nearly three columns to it), but theshort extract here given, gives some idea of the many good thingscontained in this capital story of a real sportsman's doings :"Few better sportsmen ever took the field than Sir Claude Championde Crespigny, whose breezy, manly reminiscences are here given, to the worldin a comely and most entertaining volume. ^The book, from cover to cover,is of good sportsmanship all compact ; without a touch of exaggeration,or even the faintest taint of egotism, it tells the story of a sportsman'sadventures in the saddle and under canvas, at sea and in the sky, andabounds in capital anecdotes and in sage, sensible reflections. There isnothing the least superficial about Sir Claude's experiences. He has servedin the Navy and in the Army, in India and in South Africa ; has riddenmany thousands of miles to hounds and over steeplechase courses ; was apioneer of ballooning, and one of the best shots in the country. Thoughhe has turned his 6oth year, he still looks forward to many seasons of activesport, having kept himself 'as hard as nails,' and retained undimmed hisyouthful enthusiasm for the open-air life. When to these qualifications isaddedthe innate modesty of good-breeding and good-fellowship, it is obviousthat Sir Claude's equipment is one of exceptional brilliancy and attractiveness.It is seldom indeed that one encounters so thoroughly stimulating andvigorous a record as may be found between the covers of the present livelyand well-written volume.'MILLS & BOON, LTD., 49 RUPERT STREET, LONDON, W.