WE lay before the public a new work on the exhaustless subject of 

 SPORTING, and on the nature and management of those domestic animals, 

 for the value and high qualities of which, this country stands pre-eminent. 

 We have summoned to our assistance some of the most finished models 

 of the graphic art, appealing to both the eye and to the mind of the reader ; 

 and we have little doubt the validity of our appeal will be recognised. 



A very small portion of introductory observation will suffice, on a sub- 

 ject so universally known. Its foundation is that indissoluble chain of 

 connexion between man and the inferior animals, ordained by a bene- 

 ficent Providence, for human use and benefit, by which those animals 

 have been formed with various and suitable qualities for every possible 

 purpose, and endowed with a sufficient degree of intelligence, but no more, 

 which might adapt them to our use and convenience. Providence says 

 plainly to man, JUB tibi erunt artes be it your duty and your interest, 

 to subdue the beasts of the field, to discover their innate properties, to 

 domesticate them, to cultivate and improve them, but above all things, 

 not to forget that these inferior beings, partaking in degree, of your own 

 nature, and in great measure, of your intellectual powers, were given for 

 your use, but not abuse; and that JUSTICE and MERCY are due even to 

 the beast. 



Hence the proper understanding and management of animals, have 

 formed branches of human science, which are reducible to the following 



