86 Modern English Books. 



Valturius, etc., and gives a mass of information in too 

 concise form to be absolutely accurate as a guide. 

 Chapman, 1859. 8vo, 115 pp., illustrations and appen- 

 dices, folding frontispiece. 



1005. THE SHOT GUN AND SPORTING RIFLE. Ej 11 Stone- 

 henge" (i.e. J. H. Walsh}. When the author of "British 

 Rural Sports " undertook the editorship of the Field in 

 1857, he found it necessary to inaugurate two gun 

 trials, to settle the breechloader and muzzleloader 

 controversy ; and being thereby thrown into close 

 intimacy with gunmakers, the author determined to 

 set forth from the sportsman's point of view all 

 respecting guns and shooting. The contents are : 

 "The Theory of Gunnery"; "The Shot Gun" and "The 

 Sporting Rifle " ; " Game, the Animals used in the Pur- 

 suit of it " ; " Methods of Preserving ; " " Present Game 

 Laws." The book is not of equal value to the later 

 works of the writer ; it is less technical, more popular 

 in style, and less dogmatic, and is of course quite out 

 of date as a practical sporting guide, and inferior to 

 other books of the same period as a technical work of 

 reference to arms. Routledge, Warne & Co., London, 

 1859. 8vo, 448 pp., woodcuts, n.e. 1862. 



1006. THE GUN ; and How to Use it. T. B. Johnson. A 

 sportsman's manual. Houlston, 1860. Fcap. 8vo, Is. Gd. 



1007. STORY OF THE GUNS. J. Emerson Tennent. Treats 

 of the Whitwoi-th invention and rifled ordnance. 

 Longmans, London, 1864. 8vo, 364 pp., woodcuts. 



1008. ANOTHER STORY OF THE GUNS. A reply to J. E. 

 Tennent. Macmillan, London, 1864. 8vo, 2s. 



1009. SHOOTING. Robert Blakey. " A manual of practical 

 information." This little book had a large sale, and 

 continued in demand until a couple of years ago, 

 although it contains very little of interest to users of 

 breechloaders, or relating to shooting in the modern 

 manner. G. Routledge & Sons, London. Crown 8vo, 



