I90 CENTURY OF ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING 



Belgrave Place, Pimlico, on the 19th of May, 1843, 

 being then in his sixty-fith year. 



Few men could have had a wider experience of 

 hunting than Mr. Apperley, for he had hunted in 

 every part of England, in Scotland, in France, and 

 in Germany. He recorded his foreign experiences 

 in Nimrod Abroad. This book, though written in 

 the author's usual egotistical style, has one great 

 merit, since it has no reference to the author's 

 reverse of fortune. Mr. Apperley was not the man 

 to complain when complaints were useless. Besides, 

 the fame which he had earned by his articles 

 appealed to and satisfied his vanity. We have a 

 proof of this in his own words in Northern Tours. 

 He was dining with Lord Elcho and two other 

 gentlemen at Dunse, and expresses his surprise that 

 one of the gentlemen had not heard of " Nimrod." 

 In the previous page he expresses his delight that 

 his fame was known to Watson, the coachman of 

 the Dover coach. Addison, whose literary style he 

 tried to imitate, would never have penned these 

 experiences, which remind the reader of the arch- 

 sycophant, Boswell. Probably his best article was 

 the one entitled " Remarks on the Condition of 

 Hunters," which appeared in the Quarterly Review 

 for March, 1832, and contained the celebrated 

 fictitious run with the Quorn Hounds. Here he was 

 at his best, and if he had turned his attention to 

 fiction his works undoubtedly would have been 

 successful. But sporting fiction was left for Mr. 



