PREFACE. 



WHILE superintending the literary Department of Black and 

 White, I prevailed upon a number of competent writers on Sport 

 and Natural History to deal week by week, the whole of one year 

 round, with these two topics. We called the series " Field Sports 

 and Field Studies," and as the writers knew their business and 

 how to write upon it, the papers were exceedingly popular. 



Among the authors were such sportsmen and naturalists as 

 Mr. Aubyn Trevor-Battye, who has since achieved fame in 

 Arctic lands, Mr. George Lindesay, a classic in sporting litera- 

 ture, Mr. H. H. S. Pearse, the admirable writer and referee 

 on hunting of all kinds, and Mr. Sachs, a known and notable 

 angler and writer on angling, with many others of high local or 

 special authority as sportsmen or naturalists. As regards the 

 artists engaged on this book their work is all so praiseworthy that 

 I hardly like to pick and choose from the list, and elect, instead, 

 to print their names in full on our title-page. 



I claim for this book, in forty-five parts or sections, that it is 

 not a mere jumbled collection of articles, but a consecutive work 

 dealing, in their due sequence, with forty-five consecutive and 

 most interesting seasonal phases of Sport and Natural History in 

 the British Islands. 



OSWALD CRAWFURD, Editor. 



January, 1895. 



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