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is still a charm about the style which will render 

 ' Silk and Scarlet,' ' Post and Paddock,' ' Scott and 

 Sebright,' ' Saddle and Sirloin,' a delight to all sportsmen 

 with any literary tastes for many a long day to come. 

 They have already taken their place as classics in 

 sporting literature, and though classics as a rule are 

 more admired than read, and more talked about than 

 handled, yet I think there is such vigorous, racy life 

 in ' The Druid's ' pages as will always secure for them 

 appreciative readers in those who love the lore of the 

 Turf and the Chase. Indeed, if future editions of ' The 

 Druid's ' works be furnished with explanatory footnotes, 

 to make the obscure allusions intelligible, I see no reason 

 why they should not be read and enjoyed as much by 

 the great-grandchildren as they were by the fathers of 

 the present generation : for, there are certainly no more 

 vivid pictures of the old-time heroes of the race- 

 course and the hunting-field to be found in English 

 literature than those which ' The Druid ' has painted 

 with a master-hand in the four volumes to which every 

 subsequent writer on sport has been so largely indebted. 



