PREFACE. 



It is complimentary to the pen of Nimrod — at 

 all events to the subjects on which it has been em- 

 ployed — that nearly all the serial papers he has 

 written in the various Periodicals to which he has 

 contributed, have been subsequently published in 

 volumes. 



The Proprietors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 

 see no reason why the articles on The Horse, 

 Horsemanship, Hound, and Hunting, which ap- 

 peared in the last edition of that work, should 

 form an exception to the, hitherto nearly general, 

 practice of their craft, of re-publishing Nimrod's 

 contributions, conceiving, as they do, that they 

 are not only amusing and instructwe to one class 

 of readers, but interesting to all. They are here, 

 then, given to the public in a carefully-revised 

 form, with such alterations and additions, as the 



