90 Modern English Books. 



partridge shooting, pheasant shooting, rearing, rabbit 

 shooting, vermin, keepers, poachers and poaching, dogs 

 and dog breaking, pigeon shooting from traps ; index. 

 The chapter on trap shooting is the best in the volume, 

 which is, however, a readable compilation, well illus- 

 trated and carefully indexed. Vol. II. " Moor and 

 Marsh." Contains grouse, black game, deer stalking, 

 deer forests, woodcock, snipe, wildfowl, surface-feeding 

 ducks, diving ducks, waders, rails and cranes, shore 

 shooting, punting, fowling punts, swivel guns, a little 

 plain law for game preservers, index. There is also a 

 short bibliography of wildfowling ; but, on the whole, 

 the volume is inferior to the former; it is cleverly 

 illustrated. Longmans, London, 1886. 8vo; vol. i., 

 358 pp. ; vol. ii., 348 pp. ; price 10s. Qd. each vol. 



1021. TREATISE ON MILITARY SMALL ARMS. Lieut.-Col. 

 H. Bond. 1884, 8vo. Military textbook (official). 



1022. PRACTICAL HINTS ON SHOOTING. By " 20-Bore " (i.e. 

 Basil Tozer). An ambitious work by a young sports- 

 man. Kegan Paul, 1887, 8vo. 472 pp., 55 illustrations. 



1023. MODERN SHOT GUNS. W. W. Greener. The sporting 

 gun treated historically, descriptively, analytically, 

 technically, specifically, critically, and practically. 

 Additional chapters on ammunition and trap shooting. 

 This is by far the most scientific of Mr. Greener's 

 books, and the best written ; it contains in a small 

 compass all that sportsmen wish to know of the 

 varieties of sporting weapons and of their capabilities. 

 Cassell & Co., London, 1888. Large 8vo, 192 pp., wood- 

 cuts and diagrams, cloth, 5s. Another edition, 1891, 

 202 pp., additional . illustrations, 5s.; also editions in 

 German, Spanish and Italian. The English editions 

 are not now easily obtainable. 



1024. LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS. Sir Ralph Payne- 

 Gallwey, Bart. First series, " on the choice and use of 

 a gun," contains much controversial matter, and some 



