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" That felloiv Jack Musters,'' Tom Smltli used to say, 

 " spoilt MY beauty. '' For several years, though, his name 

 was seldom found in the debates, he represented in 

 Parliament Carnarvonshire and Andover ; and in 1832, 

 in consequence of the riots Avhich took place in that 

 year, he raised, at his own expense, a corps of yeomanry 

 cavalry, reviewed by the Duke of Wellington, the troopers 

 of which were chiefly his own tenants or farmers of the 

 neighbourhood. For upwards of fifty seasons he con- 

 tinued to be the master of hounds, until, after having 

 been in his saddle for seventy years, the boy who in 

 1783 went to Eton when he was seven years old, died 

 at Vaenol on the 9th of September, 1858, aged eighty- 

 two. 



At the earnest request of his widow, Sir John E. 

 Eardley-Wilmot (assisted by extracts from the ' Field ' 

 newspaper), with considerable spirit and ability, has lately 

 compiled a series of graphic incidents and sketches, 

 forminor altocrether a memoir — or, as he terms them, 

 ' Eeminiscences ' — of the life of one whom Napoleon I. 

 addressed as " le premier chasseur d' Angleterre,'' and 

 who was also called by the Parisians " le grand chasseur 

 Smit." From this volume we shall now submit to our 

 readers a few extracts. 



" Lord Foley," wrote ' Nimrod,' " was succeeded in the possession 

 of the Quorn hounds by that most conspicuous sportsman of modern 



