vi Preface 



indebted to Lady Brooke and Sir Douglas Brooke, to whom the originals 

 respectively belong. His thanks are likewise due to the Duchess of 

 Bedford, Sir Edmund G. Loder, and Mr. David T. Hanbury for various 

 illustrations ; while acknowledgments must likewise be made for those 

 borrowed from the works of Prince DemidofiF and Mr. H. Z. Darrah. 



Harpenden, 1st December 1898. 



