That is a question which at once is raised--not fancifully, but in all seriousness--if we are to place any credence whatever on such revelations as, for instance, Sir Oliver Lodge gives us in _Raymond_, as we have in _Claud's Book_--Claud actually states that he has been golfing--or as Sir Conan Doyle strenuously affirms to be proven true to his satisfaction. If any one of these even so much as approximate to the fact, in regard to that world to which we go after death, it must then be evident that it is a world so like that in which we live and labour and play golf for our relaxation now, that it is impossible but to think that there must be something of the nature of the same pastime in that "beyond." Such revelations, if we attach value to them at all, inevitably carry the inference that we shall there find golf, together with other conditions not widely different from those that we have known on earth--not any "fancy" golf on illimitable Elysian Fields, with never a bad lie on the whole immense, monotonous expanse, but real golf, difficult golf, golf with bunkers and all incidental troubles to be overcome--not without vexation of spirit--golf in which (for we cannot presume an infinity of halved matches), one or other player will be beaten. So it may be. It needs at least equal boldness to deny it as to affirm it. And, if it be so, arises then the further question: "Will those who are champions now, be champions then? Are we to carry on, into that beyond, any portion of the skill acquired so painfully here below? Will Harry Vardon still be, golfily speaking, Harry Vardon there?" It scarcely seems an equitable prospect. Have we not more reason, and even some high authority, to suppose that the blessed law of compensation will be in operation: that the first here will be the last there, and the eighteen-handicap man, now the scratch player, or better, of that bright future? This is the vision splendid, for the many--on which they may gratefully close the page. _Printed in Great Britain by_ Butler & Tanner, _Frome and London_. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICES OF "COUNTRY LIFE" [Illustration: 20, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, W.C.2] _The "Country Life" Library_ WINDSOR CASTLE AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY Collected and written by command of Their Majesties QUEEN VICTORIA, KING EDWARD VII and KING GEORGE V. By SIR WILLIAM H. ST. JOHN HOPE, LITT.D., D.C.L. _Imperial Quarto, in Two Volumes, and a Portfolio._ _Bound in Half Sheepskin_, £7 17_s._ 6_d._ _net_; _Whole Sheepskin_, £10 10_s._ _net_; _Full Morocco_, £13 2_s._ 6_d._ _net_.