Re della caccia-campo : memorie e aneddoti di illustri maestri di segugi e altre celebrità della caccia con le storie del famoso pack e tradizioni di caccia di grandi case . a^un lavoro per cui ogni uno che ha consultato mustfeel it la massima ammirazione. Di tutti i puramente sportingwriters di questo secolo, o forse di ogni secolo, il druido credo sia raggiunto il più ampio competenti ed popolarità solido. Una bella edizione di hisworks in cinque volumi, con una biografia dell'autore dail on. Francesco Lawley, è stato abbastanza recentemente issuedby signori Vinton. Cascami di seta e di scarlatto, Pos

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Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . a^a work for which every one who has consulted it mustfeel the highest admiration. Of all the purely sportingwriters of this century, or perhaps of any century, The Druid has, I think, attained the widest andmost solid popularity. A handsome edition of hisworks in five volumes, with a biography of the author bythe Hon. Francis Lawley, has been quite recently issuedby Messrs Vinton. Silk and Scarlet, Post and Paddock^Scott and Sebright, Saddle and Sirloin, still keep theirgrip on the public, and Lord Rosebery not long sincepaid this high tribute to the literary merits of thesepopular books: I am one who finds constant re-freshment from reading a few pages of this healthy andvivid author, half sportsman and half poet, who hasproduced a number of volumes which in their way aremasterpieces, and will never be surpassed. And what manner of man was he whose writingshave fascinated two generations of sportsmen ? To thatquestion I hope I have given a satisfactory answer inthe following sketch.. /%e^v^ ^3^c?u THE DRUID.) Zbc Druib 311 Henry Hall Dixon was the son of a prosperous cottonmanufacturer, and was born at Carlisle on the i6th ofMay 1822. In many a glowing passage of his writingsone can trace his love of the Cumberland fells and dales, and his enthusiastic interest in the sports of the stalwartdalesmen. Take, for example, this passage from St/kand Scarlet, on the old Cumberland and Westmorlandwrestling matches, a grand old sport now, alas, dyingout. After describing the great cocking mains at theChester meetings of the old days, he proceeds : Strange indeed was the contrast between thatcrowded pit in St John Street, Chester, and the raceaccompaniments at Merrie Carlisle on a Septemberafternoon. A dark and almost breathless ring of tenthousand is gathering under the hill-side on

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