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addition to the sporting amateur's library of choice, rare 

 and eminently attractive works. 



In conclusion, it may be pointed out as a circumstance 

 worthy of notice that though Aiken's woodcuts to a certain 

 extent illustrate the text of " The Analysis of the Hunting 

 Field," the coloured plates, with one exception, have nothing 

 in particular to do with it. They form, it is true, an admirable 

 panorama of the Hunting Field in Aiken's best style, but as 

 illustrations of the text, the plates reproduced in the companion 

 volume in this series, namely, " Nimrod's Hunting Tours," 

 would serve even better. In fact, nearly all the personages 

 whose portraits are there reproduced and many of the actual 

 engravings are referred to by Surtees in the present work. 

 The two volumes may therefore be taken as complementary 

 the one to the other, and should be taken together b}' students 

 of the history of Fox Hunting in England. 



