CRITICAL OPINIONS OF THE DEAD SHOT. 



^ THE DEAD SHOT is in every respect the best work on 



-L the art of shooting for the young sportsman. It comprises a searching and 

 clear exposition of the secrets of good shooting, with the best practical instructions 

 in dog-breaking. All who read it will assuredly profit by its truthful and convincing 

 explanations. Bad shots, nervous and inexperienced sportsmen, who peruse this 

 little treatise, will find much light thrown on the mystery of shooting with unerring 

 precision." SPORTING MAGAZINE. 



^ MARKSMAN'S opinion is entitled to respect, because he 



jL'JL shows in every page of his book that he understands the subject of which 

 he treats. His advice to young sportsmen is brief, clear, and practical; and we 

 believe that he who acts upon it steadily can not fail to improve his shooting; and 

 if nature has given him a quick eye and steady hand and nerve he will have placed 

 himself in the right road to attain the reputation of a dead shot. 11 SATURDAY KE- 

 VIEW. 



THIS is the most complete sportsman's manual that we 



-I- have yet seen ; and we feel a pleasure in recommending it to the notice of 

 every one who carries a gun after game, whether he be an old hand ;r a mere tyro. 

 If the former, he will find much to enjoy in the record of work cleverly done, to- 

 gether with a profusion of useful hints that can not fail to satisfy and please ; if the 

 latter, in MAKKSMAN he meets a friend who will lead him from the first rudimentary 

 lesson in handling a gun, to the proficiency of a dead shot. We have not read a more 

 useful or agreeable sporting book for a long time, and heartily recommend it to every 

 sportsman, old as well as young." BELI/S LIFE. 



U npHIS is a capital little book, the work of a man who 



JL thoroughly knows what he is writing about The Volunteer movement 

 has naturally Jed to the publication of several treatises on the use of a gun, especially 

 the use of a rifle; but we d< not call to mind any one that so completely comes up 

 to our own notion of a useful manual on the science of shooting as this of MARKS- 

 MAN s. We feel quite sure, that by a close adherence to the rules and instructions 

 here given, the shooter can not fail to become a good shot, and will, Very probably, 

 become a dead shot." MORNING CHRONICLE. 



" MARKSMAN'S volume is worth the study of sportsmen, 



-L'A- whether young or old. We particularly recommend to the former the 

 attitudes represented in the plates. 11 GARDENERS 1 CHRONICLE. 



T/t^E fully believe that the careful study of this book will 



M be equivalent to a considerable amount of practice in fitting a man to do 

 his work in the field with credit to himself. The author writes like a man who 

 thoroughly understands his business. His maxims are all plain, intelligible, and 

 founded on co'iuinon sense. . . . The book is full of practical and precisely-expressed 

 rules, which are fully supported by reason; and which, if they are carefully observed, 

 will bring any one. with a reasonable amount of practice, steady nerves, and a good 

 eve, up to the level implied in the phrase, 'a dead shot. 1 " JOHN BULL. 



^ TO teach the novice how to handle a g-un, and to hit with 



-L certainty, and to cure defects in bad marksmen, ?8 the object of the DEAD 

 SHOT. Commencing with the gun itself. MARKSMAN enters con <imore upon his 

 task, and proceeds from the A, B, C of the art to the utmost limits which the theory 

 can reach. One of the most valuable divisions of the book is that which treats of the 

 flight of game, a topic that has not been discussed in other works on shooting. The 

 advantages of a knowledge of this subject to the young sportsman can not be over- 

 rated. Directions for Dog-breaking are added, so that the DEAD SHOT is, as its title 

 professes, the SPOKTSAIAN^S COMPLETE GUIDE." -MORNING POST, 



