96 SEAFOWL SHOOTING SKETCHES. 



" Hints on Shore-Shooting," with a chapter on Skinning and 

 Preserving Birds. By J. E. Harting. (Published by Van Voorst, 

 1871. Price 35. 6d. With frontispiece and tailpiece.) A small 

 book, but a good one. 



"The Deadshot," by "Marksman." Longman's, 1860. Con- 

 tains a few illustrations, firing positions, &c. It would be diffi- 

 cult to beat the directions as to aiming, which are given in this 

 practical work. 



"An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports," by Delabere P. Blaine, 

 with over 600 woodcuts by R. Branston. Longman's, 1852. 

 Price about ^i is. A very full and comprehensive work, with a 

 lot of interesting reading. 



"Facts and Useful Hints Relating to Fishing and Shooting." 

 Edited by I.E. B.C. Horace Cox, 1867. A few illustrations and 

 some useful information. 



" The Sportsman's Directory and Park and Gamekeeper's Com- 

 panion," by John Mayer. Simpkin, 1845. Contains quaint cuts 

 and recipes, 181 pp. 



"Confessions of a Poacher." Edited by John Watson, illus- 

 trated by James West. Leadenhall Press, 1890. Published at 

 2s. 6d. The third chapter of this book, " Graduating in Wood- 

 craft," is intensely interesting. 



" The Gamekeeper at Home," by Richard Jefferies, illustrated 

 by Charles Whymper. New edition, Smith Elder, 1892, published 

 at 55. It is utterly impossible to say too much in favour of this 

 author. He may be imitated, but cannot be excelled. His early 

 death was a great loss to the ranks of nature lovers. 



" The Amateur Poacher," by R. Jefferies. New edition, 1903, 

 Smith Elder. An earlier edition of this work revived my liking 

 for the crossbow and the flint-lock, since when I have shot rooks 

 with crossbow, air cane, and spring-air rifle, and killed a corn- 

 crake with a flint-lock blunderbuss, and a gull flying with an 

 Oriental flint-lock pistol. 



"Letters to Young Shooters," 2nd series 1892, 3rd series 1896, 

 by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. Both these books are well 

 and plentifully illustrated. The third series is the best practical 

 wildfowl book that I have or ever had. 



" An Illustrated Manual of British Birds," by Howard Saunders, 

 with about 360 cuts (Yarrel's). Published by Gurney and Jackson, 

 1889, at ,1 is. Probably the best cheap work on this subject. 



"A History of British Birds." Part I., Land Birds; Part II., 

 Water Birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Two 

 volumes, Newcastle, 1809. Very quaint tailpieces. 



" Broadland Sport." Written and illustrated by Nicholas 

 Everitt, 1902. An interesting work, which makes one long to be 

 at the Broads. Published at 125. 



