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subject of the following scathing remarks by an 

 anonymous correspondent : 



" Among the attachments to your cover is an advertise- 

 ment of 'Rural Sports/ by W. B. [William Barker] 

 Daniel. This author is a clergyman, and if I mistake 

 not, M.A. of Christ College, Cambridge, though he seems 

 unwilling to own his title to either character. Perhaps 

 there is a peculiar propriety in such renunciation ; for 

 where is the consistency between being a fisher of men 

 and a hunter of beasts ? Whether he has attained to 

 a benefice, or ever performed the duties of his clerical 

 function, let him answer to the fathers of the Church. 

 I cannot help thinking he is fitter to act the character 

 of Nimrod than that of a dignitary in the Church of 

 England ; for in the Church of Christ there are no 

 dignitaries." 



The editor, however, who probably knew Daniel, did 

 not wholly endorse this view of his character, for he 

 appends the following note : " Our correspondent will 

 here, perhaps, be thought a little too fastidious." 



Beyond what is to be gleaned from his personal 

 experiences given in "Rural Sports," which show that 

 among the most eminent sportsmen of his day he was 

 held in high esteem, there is no record of any event in 

 Daniel's life. But I find the following among the 

 deaths in the Gentleman's Magazine for June, 1833 : 

 "In Garden Row, within the rules of the King's Bench, 

 where he had resided for the last twenty years, the 

 Rev. William Barker Daniel, the author of 'Rural 

 Sports.' He was of Christ's College, Cambridge, B.A. 

 1787, M.A. 1790." 



