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country houses at a time when magazines were 

 only circulated through the medium of the stage 

 coaches. He was entrusted with the management 

 of the new policy, and he made it a success from 

 the start, in spite of the facts that previously he 

 had no practical knowledge of literature, and that 

 it was his maiden effort at authorship. His 

 detractors have said that Mr. Pittman could have 

 found many better men to do the work. Perhaps 

 so, but Mr. Apperley was given the opportunity 

 and made the most of it. When the Sportmg 

 Magazine became defunct, in 1829, owing to internal 

 disputes, and Mr. Apperley was at liberty to become 

 a free lance, he had won his literary spurs, and 

 his success was assured. The Quarterly Review, 

 Eraser's, the New Monthly, the Encyclopcedia 

 Britannica, and the Morning Herald sought con- 

 tributions from his pen, and he returned to England 

 for a short time owing to the difficulty of carrying 

 on his business abroad. But he soon returned to 

 France. In 1834 he received an invitation from 

 the Earl of Kintore to go to Scotland, which he 

 accepted, and arrived at Lord Elcho's headquarters 

 at Dunse in the November. The results of his 

 Scotch visit may be seen in Niinrod's Northern 

 Tours. He once more returned to France, but 

 returned to England at the beginning of 1843, 

 feeling, as he expressed it, like a hare doubling 

 back to its form. His prophecy was true. He 

 died after a few days' illness in his house in Upper 



