NOTE ON HENRY ALKEN'S "MYTTON" 

 ILLUSTRATIONS 



'""I ^HE Memoirs of Jack Mytton," both as regards 

 the madcap adventures of the redoubtable 

 hero, the far-famed Squire of Halston, as recorded 

 by his biographer, and the spirited pictures drawn by 

 Henry Aiken, must be pronounced unique. Probably 

 even the imagination of a sporting novelist would be 

 unequal to the invention of hairbreadth escapes or 

 deeds so utterly reckless as the every-day feats of 

 the dauntless Mytton ; and no romances or fictions of 

 the hunting-field as yet given to readers who revel 

 in such moving incidents, afford the sporting de- 

 lineator equal opportunities for a similar display of 

 his spirited pencil. 



The book was there — the hero a living personage, 

 whose daring escapades were familiarly discussed and 

 wondered over amongst his hunting contemporaries, 

 the lovers of sporting adventures. Nimrod himself 

 was the ideal literary hand, by every congenial quali- 

 fication predestined to chronicle those extraordinary 



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