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phant disappeared from Eastern Asia a thousand years 

 before our era; and the lion had become rare or unknown 

 in lands where the dwellers were of European stock, long 

 before the days of written records. 



There was good hunting in Macedonia in the days of 

 Alexander the Great; there was good hunting in the Her- 

 cynian Forest when Frank and Bergund were turning 

 Gaul into France; there was good hunting in Lithuania 

 and Poland as late as the days of Sobieski ; but the most 

 famous kings and nobles of Europe, within historic times, 

 though they might kill the aurochs and the bison, the bear 

 and the boar, had no chance to test their prowess against 

 the mightier and more terrible beasts of the tropics. 



No modern man could be more devoted to the chase 

 than were the territorial lords of the Middle Ages. 

 Two of the most famous books of the chase ever written 

 were the Livre de Chasse of Count Gaston de Foix - 

 Gaston Phoebus, well known to all readers of Froissart 

 and the translation or adaptation and continuation 

 of the same, the " Master of Game," by that Duke of 

 York who " died victorious " at Agincourt. Mr. Baillie- 

 Grohman, himself a hunter and mountaineer of wide 

 experience, a trained writer and observer, and a close 

 student of the hunting lore of the past, has edited and 

 reproduced the " Master of Game," in form which makes 

 it a delight to every true lover of books no less than to 

 every true lover of sport. A very interesting little book 

 is Glamorgan's Chasse du Loup, dedicated to Charles the 

 Ninth of France; my copy is of the edition of 1566. The 

 text and the illustrations are almost equally attractive. 



