6 Edward Arnold d; Co.'s Autumn Announcements. 



JORROCKS'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES. 



BEING THE HUNTING, SHOOTING. RACING, DRIVING, 

 SAILING, EATING, ECCENTRIC AND EXTRAVAGANT 

 EXPLOITS OF THAT RENOWNED SPORTING CITIZEN, 

 MR. JOHN JORROCKS OF ST. BOTOLPH LANE AND 

 GREAT CORAM STREET. 



By R. S. SURTEES, 



Author op "Handlhy Cross," "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour," btc. 



With 15 Coloured Plates after H. Aiken. Crown 4:to. 

 21s.net. 



Robert Smith Surtees, the greatest hunting novelist of all time, 

 whose biography has just been published sixty years after his death, 

 has only recently begun to receive his due from the Uterary critics. 

 Yet he is the man whose gift Thackeray once said he envied more 

 than that of any man. And no wonder he did — for Surtees is the 

 Dickens of the hunting field, and many of his odd characters are more 

 ahve to-day than most of our flesh -and-blood acquaintances. Sur- 

 tees is a national treasure, for he is one of the most peculiarly English 

 writers of the last century. His pages are crowded with delight- 

 fully drawn types, and of them all none is more beloved than the 

 immortal John Jorrocks. It was the success of '* Jorrocks's Jaunts 

 and Jollities," according to Mr. Thomas Seccombe in the Dictionary 

 of National Biography, which led to the conception of a similar 

 scheme which resulted in '* The Pickwick Papers." 



'* Tobe taken before * Handley Cross ' " is the author's recommen- 

 dation in his preface to the second edition of this jolly book, in 

 which are recorded the " eccentric and extravagant " exploits of 

 Surtees' greatest character. And those people who have not 

 already made the famous grocer-sportsman's acquaintance will do 

 well to follow it and read of the earlier doings of the M.F.H. of 

 Handley Cross. Those who are already devotees of this delectable 

 story-teller will need no recommendation, beyond the fact that they 

 have here for a reasonable price a handsome reproduction, including 

 Aiken's famous coloured plates, of a work which in its earlier editions 

 costs from fifty to a hundred pounds, according to the state of the 

 copy purchased. 



