PREFACE 



MANY English sportsmen have from time to time given us 

 their shooting and fishing experiences in different European 

 countries, and of these some few have assisted in the production 

 of the present work. In no one vokmie, however, has a series of 

 articles on the sport obtainable in the different countries been 

 collected from the pens of representative native sportsmen ; nor 

 indeed, as will be seen, has this been quite achieved in the present 

 work, for in three cases Englishmen have written upon countries 

 not their own. The remaining fourteen articles, however, have, 

 without exception, been contributed by natives of the countries 

 under notice ; and in translating several of these articles, and 

 revising the rest, I have preferred, at the sacrifice of uniformity 

 of treatment, to interfere as litde as possible with the original. In 

 consequence of this reluctance on my part, the reader will here and 

 there find some little inequality of attention to the same 'details, and 

 passages may in some cases read somewhat literally. Again, it will 

 certainly be found that the various writers by no means subscribe 

 to the same restricted definition of sport, or admit the same list of 

 animals that may properly be killed for sport. An animal that is only 

 trapped as vermin in one country may, however, be correctly coveted 



