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furnished illustrations are far the best known 

 of Surtees' works. Hawbuck Grange, which 

 Browne ("Phiz") illustrated, though published 

 in the same series, is far less well-known, but 

 it is only just to say that it is probably the 

 least amusing of Surtees' works. Not long 

 ago I saw it appreciatively quoted by the 

 late Lord Suffolk, who, like many another 

 sporting writer, often and often made refer- 

 ence to Hundley Cross and others of our 

 author's books. Hillingdon Hall, which was 

 republished some years back, is far less well- 

 known than it deserves to be. Jo7'rocks 

 Jaunts and Jollities, as far as I know, has 

 never been illustrated, and a new edition is 

 badly wanted. It is very unequally written, 

 but parts of it are inimitably funny. The 

 humour of the trip to Paris, at the commence- 

 ment of which Jorrocks, wishing to " sink 



