88 Modern English Books. 



improvements ever made in the shooting of sporting 

 guns." Contains full information respecting shot guns 

 of the description introduced by the author in 1874, 

 with instructions for loading them and using to best 

 advantage ; many reports of trials, tests, etc. ; but the 

 history of the invention is inferior to that subsequently 

 given with fuller descriptions. Cassell & Co., London, 

 1876. Svo, 215 pp., woodcuts and numerous folding 

 diagrams, tables, etc., detached facsimile targets in 

 pockets of cover, 7s. Qd. 



1016. THE GUN AND ITS DEVELOPMENT, with Notes on 

 Shooting. W. W. Greener. This is the standard work 

 for all that relates to the history of hand firearms, 

 their varieties, manufacture, capabilities. It is a com- 

 pilation by a well-known Birmingham gunmaker, but 

 contains a large amount of original matter. The book 

 has had a larger sale than all other gun books put 

 together : of the first edition alone three thousand 

 copies were issued, and five editions were quickly 

 exhausted. The contents include a history of firearms, 

 descriptions and illustrations of the chief types of 

 ancient and modern arms, methods of manufacture, 

 proof of arms, ballistics of rifles and of shot guns, gun 

 trials, theories, experiments; gunpowder, explosives, 

 cartridges, shot, targets, etc., etc. ; the work being in 

 fact a cyclopaedia of all relating to guns and shooting. 

 The "notes" consist of instructions in the art of 

 shooting at the target, at game, and of wing and trap 

 shooting, and a gazetteer of the shooting grounds and 

 game resorts of both hemispheres. Cassell & Co., 

 London, 1881. Extra fcap. 4to, 675 pp., 400 wood- 

 cuts, cloth, gilt, 21s. ; now scarce. Second edition, 

 1884, 740 pp., cloth, plain. Third edition, 1885, 

 768 pp. Fourth edition, 1889, 768 pp., reprint of 

 third edition. Fifth edition, 1892, 742 pp. Sixth 

 edition, announced, 1894, 700 pp., 10s. Qd. The third 

 edition is probably the best. French and Russian 

 translations have been published. See Nos. 1506, 1922. 



