PREFACE. 



The Editor desires to convey his acknowledgments 

 to all those who have so kindly assisted him in the com- 

 pilation of this, the Second Edition of the Calcutta Paper- 

 chasing Records, the hrst book dealing with this subject 

 having been published by ''C. C. M. " In the present 

 volume " C. C. M.'s" book is republished and the records 

 are brought up to the end of season 1907-08. Some 

 attempt has also been made to give a short history of 

 paperchasing and of its predecessor the old Calcutta Hunt, 

 and, what may principally interest paperchasing people, a 

 complete history of the Calcutta Paperchase Cup is con- 

 tained in this volume. The Editor has been greatly assisted 

 in obtaining these records b\' the kindness of the late Mr. 

 (iuy Temple of the Asian, and also by Mr. W. Xewson, 

 Manager of that Journal, also by Messrs. l])udley M}ers, 

 Thomas Watson, McLeod, Apostolides, West, Petersen, 

 Bigge, etc., etc., by contributions, photographs, and last, 

 but not least, advice I 



The book goes forth with all its manifold imperfec- 

 tions thick upon it, claiming no, literary merit, but hoping 

 that its indulgent reader will be to its virtues ever kind, 

 to its faults a little blind ! The Editor cannot better 

 close this short foreword, than by quoting another 

 pilgrim, who tolled much both by night and by day : — 



"The torch bhall be extinguished which hath lit 

 " My midnight lamp — and what is writ, is writ — 

 '• Would it were worthier I" 



