A NOTICE OF NIMROD. 



Road and the Letters on the Condition of Hunters, 

 where he went for the hard-meat system in prefer- 

 ence to the two or three months at grass ; and the 

 advantage of his practice is now universally acknow- 

 ledged, although it met with some opposition in the 

 outset. He began one of his first articles on the 

 Road — he was forty-four years of age when he took 

 to writing — in this way : "A whip has been much 

 oftener in my right hand for the last twenty-five 

 years than a pen ; " and the " Morning Post" spoke in 

 some regret of " a gentleman who appeared to have 

 passed half his life among hounds, horses, and coach- 

 men, and whose style was so excellent that it was a 

 pity it had not been more worthily directed." The 

 Editor of the " Quarterly Review," on the contrary, 

 was quick to appreciate the value of this happy 

 union of power and experience, and he invited 

 Nimrod to become a contributor to that work ; but the 

 latter v/as bound down to the " Sporting Magazine," 

 and It was some years before he could comply with 

 a request that conveyed so high a compliment. Soon 

 after joining the "Magazine," Nimrod, as he was hence- 

 forth known, took Beaurepaire House, in Hampshire, 

 where he commenced farming rather extensively. 

 But what with the hunting tours in the winter, and 



