portrait to sec how grotesquely " Kit North " libelled his 

 " counterfeit presentment." 



Sir Ernest Clarke, Secretary of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, has courteously allowed me to use the copy of the 

 famous Gainsborough portrait of Thomas William Coke, 

 Earl of Leicester, the original of which hangs in Holkham 

 House. The copy was taken by special permission to 

 illustrate Mr. Walter Rye's admirable article on " Coke of 

 Norfolk " in The Royal Agricultural Society's Journal. 



I have also to thank the Proprietor of The Field 

 for leave to reproduce the portrait of the Hon. Grantley 

 Berkeley, which was taken specially for that journal 

 after Mr. Berkeley's return from his American sporting 

 tour. 



For the portrait of Sir Samuel Baker in the uniform 

 of a Turkish Pasha I have to make my grateful 

 acknowledgments to Messrs. Macmillan & Co., the 

 publishers of Mr. Douglas's Memoir of the famous 

 sportsman and explorer, in which the portrait first 

 appeared. 



I offer my sincerest thanks to Miss Anna M. 

 Stoddart for her kind permission to use the portrait of 

 her father, originally the frontispiece to his " Angling 

 Songs." I have elsewhere expressed my indebtedness 

 to Miss Stoddart's charming Memoir of the poet-angler 

 of Kelso. 



My grateful acknowledgments are also due to Mrs. 

 Russel, who was good enough to lend me the excellent 



