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WILD SPORTS 



NATURAL HISTORY OF 



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THE HIGHLANDS 



By Charles St. Joiim. With Introduction and Notes by the Right 

 Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., and containing fifty illustrations, 

 thirty of which are reproduced in colour from pictures specially drawn 

 by G. Dekholm Armour and Edwin Alexander, R.S.A., R.W.S. 



Quarto, 516 pages, buckram, 30s. net. 

 Paper Edition of 250 numbered copies, printed on Hand-made 

 Paper and bound in Brown Vellum, ;^3, 3s. net. 

 The memory of Charles St. John is as closely associated with the 

 Findhorn and sport in the Highlands as that of William Scrope is 

 with the Tiveed and the curries of Glen Tilt, or that of Izaak IValton 

 with the Hampshire Meadoivs a?id the River Dove., but St. John was 

 a closer observer of nature than either of these, and he used his opport- 

 unity to the best purpose in studying the habits of animals, for some of 

 whicli the naturalist may tiow watch in vain. The value of St. John's 

 contributions to natural history consist in their being a plain statement 

 of what came under his vigilant eye. All he ivrote is essentially read- 

 able and inte?-esting to sportsmen as well as to naturalists. As sports- 

 man, the author's taste did not lie so much in. the slaughtering of large 

 numbers of grouse or other game, but rather in the killing of a moderate 

 number with his single brace of dogs and in taking note at the same tine 

 of all the 7vild life round about him. These observations, made by a 

 man who was essentially a sportsman as tvell as a naturalist, make an 

 inimitable book of its kind, relieved continually by writing in a lighter 

 vein. 



This }iew edition has been fully edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., who 

 has contributed a biographical introduetion as well as full footnotes in iliumin 

 ation or in explanation of St. John's obsei-vations, thus bringing the workinto line 

 with recent investigation. 



An important feature of the edition is a large number qfpliftes in colour, care- 

 fully planned atid painted specially for the work by Edwin Alexander, R.S.A,, 

 the well-known bird and animal painter, and Mr G. Denhobn Armour, whose 

 pictures of sport need no introduction. It is a book which every sportsman should 

 possess. 



