A NOTICE OF NIMROD. 



he once promised to write a paper on fishing, he 

 never carried out his threat. The book upon hunt- 

 ing proposal was favourably received by Mr. Colburn, 

 the publisher, but " no sooner was I in Regent -Street, 

 on the road to my hotel, than my course was at once 

 changed. I chanced to meet a very old friend and 

 brother sportsman, to whom I communicated my in- 

 tentions, together with the result of my interview 

 with Mr. Colburn, when the following parley took 

 place : — 



" ]\Iy Friend. You are wrong in thinking of writ- 

 ing a book. Go to the 'Sporting Magazine;' it will 

 answer your purpose much better. 



"Myself. The 'Sporting Magazine'! That will 

 never do ; it is a mere Cockney concern, and no 

 gentleman writes for it. 



" Jlly Friend. Never mind that. Take my ad- 

 vice, and go to the proprietor of it. li yoii write 

 for it, other gentlemen and sportsmen will soon do 

 so also. 



" These words were prophetic." 



The friend was the father of the writer of this 

 notice. Sporting literature was at that time at a 

 very low ebb — If, indeed, in any way recognised ; 

 and beyond Beckford's " Thoughts on Hunting" and 



