VI] 1 PREFACE. 



" If foxhunting be no longer the sport it was, it 

 remains still a grand, a noble social institution. Of 

 this I have a strong religious conviction. My warmest 

 friendships have been made and cemented in the hunt- 

 ing-field." 



As I can offer no new light on the subject, in hum- 

 ble adhesion to my data of 1839, 1 will conclude this 

 preface with the addition of one more to the many 

 quotations from beloved Horace : — 



" Vade, vale, si quid novisti rectius istis, 

 Candidus imperii, si non, his utere inecum," 



which for the benefit of the few young ladies of the 

 period, who do not know everything — Latin included 

 — I translate literally : — ) 



Farewell, and if with, these you disagree 

 Impart uew maxims or use these with me. 



