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greatly valuing it as a healthy feature of 

 our country life. 



Almost every kind of sport and athletic 

 exercise has been ably described from the 

 technical standpoint by the many experts 

 whose books have been published of recent 

 years. The best methods of obtaining 

 the best results have been so fully stated 

 that one feels one ought to be able to 

 become an accomplished shot, fisherman, 

 bicyclist, horseman, and indeed all-round 

 sportsman, merely through the study of 

 these works ! How to remain on a horse : 

 how to throw a fly : how to crumple up the 

 highest pheasant have not all these and 

 other arts been set forth by many an ac- 

 cepted authority ? Indeed in various series of 

 sporting books, each branch of these subjects 

 has been admittedly written of in a tutorial 

 and educational spirit. As I have intimated, 

 the Haddon Hall Library, while by no means 

 neglecting this aspect of the matter, is not 

 at all intended as a series of technical books. 



