i64 CENTURY OF ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING 



Mr. Russell. Lord Carington once asked him, "Did 

 the foxhound come out of the ark ? ' referring to 

 an argument as to whether or not the foxhound 

 originally belonged to a separate breed. Russell 

 replied, " How could he ? Did not a brace of foxes 

 come out alive?" He died on the 28th of April, 

 1883, being then in his eighty-eighth year. If any 

 of my readers wish to know more about Mr. Russell, 

 I refer them to — 



Memoir of the Rev. John Russell, and his out-of-door Life, 

 1879. Svo. Illustrations. 



A new and cheaper edition (post Svo) was published in 

 1883. 



It is a work which not only gives a long account of 

 Mr. Russell, but further gives the reader an insight of 

 Exmoor. Another interesting book is — 



Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties 

 of Devon and Somerset, by C. P. CoUyns, 1862. Svo. 

 Tinted lithographic plates and other illusiradons. 



It may appear to some of my readers that both in 

 regard to selection and to order of arrangement these 

 " Biographies in a Nutshell " lack discrimination ; but 

 I venture to think that contrasts are more interesting 

 than to schedule events in the same fashion as is 

 done in a penny almanac. And what stronger con- 

 trast could we have than between the most famous 

 hunting parson of the century and the most famous 

 rough-rider of the century — between Mr. Russell and 

 Dick Christian? Of the latter it was written — 



