322 ROBERT S. SURTEES 



he gives it verbally — to point out what people 

 will stand from a man merely because they 

 suppose him to be " somebody " and rich. 



We venture to think it is not as caricatures 

 that these books live, but, on the contrary, 

 because Surtees knew and described Jmman 

 nature ; and that is the reason why when our 

 modern reviewers wish to bestow their high- 

 est praise on a sporting novel, they say the 

 author reminds them in places of the man 

 who conceived John Jorrocks, grocer and 

 master of fox-hounds. 



