LTHOUGH the Author does not scruple to 

 admit, that his hunting experiences have been 

 very much confined to watching the cubs at plajr 

 near the earths on a summer' s evening ; taking notes 

 of hunters at crack meets,, much after the same 

 fashion as he was wont to do in ' l Turf Pencillings ;" 

 and seeing, by dint of short cuts, a goodly number of 

 foxes pulled down in the woodlands, he is not altoge- 

 ther sure that this is not an advantage to his readers 

 in more ways than one. Beckford, Delme Rad- 

 cliffe, Apperley, Smith, Vyner, Grantley Berke- 

 ley, "Scrutator/' "Cecil," "Harry Hieover, " 

 " Gelert, " " Jorrocks, " and John Mills have 

 written so much and so well on the science of 

 the sport, that he has been obliged to try and hold 

 his own line, and confine himself to its gossip. Hence 

 he has added some ninety fresh pages on hunters, and 

 the packs of " Auld Lang Syne," to the present edi- 

 tion, for the closing chapter of which he is indebted to 

 the renowned Dick Christian, the droppings of whose 

 sage lips he has reported pretty nearly word for 

 word. He may remark, at parting, that his book 

 has now reached its final limits, as far as length is 

 concerned ; and he regrets that, being a maiden 

 author, he was not in a position to treat the hunting 

 part of it as fully in his earlier editions as he has 

 done at this third and last time of asking. The best 

 answer he can give to those epistolary critics who 

 complain of his too great " concentration," is that he 

 hopes in due time to concentrate his energies on a 

 companion sporting work. 

 February 18th, 1857. 



