3i6 ROBERT S. SURTEES 



Surtees ; everybody appreciates him. The 

 writer has put his works Into the hands of the 

 most different people, young ladles with rather 

 a prepossession against sport, London literary 

 men with a positive dislike to country life, 

 foreign naval officers in no sense sportsmen, 

 and all have equally enjoyed them. This 

 goes far to prove their reality ; the characters, 

 if indifferent honest, must be real, and this is 

 why there Is so little "go" about Plain or 

 Ringlets, although it contains far more about 

 ''Admiration Jack" than the lady whose 

 locks It Is supposed to turn on. But if his 

 women are of lltde interest, his men are, as 

 has been said above, r^^/ enough, and full of 

 variety. Besides those already alluded to, 

 who can forget Captain Doleful, Bill Bowker, 

 the great O' Dicey, Jack Spraggon, Jawley- 

 ford, Squeaky Stotfold, and dozens of others, 



