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NEW WORK BY COLONEL J. P. HAMILTON, K.H. 



In 2 vols. post 8vo. with 6 Illustrations, price 18s. 



REMINISCENCES 



OF AN 



OLD SPORTSMAN 



BY COLONEL J. P. HAMILTON, K.H., 



Author of Travels in the Interior of Columbia. 



READEES, 



^ cially those wlio pursue field 



sports with a view to healthy exercise and 

 rural enjoyment, will, we doubt not, find as 

 much pleasure as we have experienced in 

 reading these two entertaining volumes of 

 reminiscences. They are fit memorials of a 

 sportsman of the old school, arid have suffi- 

 cient detail, to interest all but very learned 

 naturalists. They are moreover relieved by 

 anecdotes of various military and other 

 celebrated characters; and descriptions of 

 sporting scenery and incidents in places 

 not generally known. We command them 

 strongly, and believe they will obtain and 

 keep a prominent place in sporting litera- 

 ture." LITERARY GAZETTE. 



" rPHAT Colonel Hamilton's mr 

 -*- mory should be so retentive,/ 



his faculty of composition 



notwithstanding the loss o( si 



weight of eighty years, is trul 



and testifies strongly to the 



character of tnose sports \ 



ample recommends, <<1 \r 



The sportsman wil 1 



cital of feats to r 



ther with prar 



his judgmer' 



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and ftiu uumimm UIMU mm in? yijtlUiiy giutl- 

 fied by anecdotes referring to our own. kind. 

 The veteran sportsman is also endowed 

 with a genial and happy temper, which dis- 

 poses him to make the best of life, and to 

 acquiesce, not only without repining, but 

 with a cheerful and religious spirit, in the 

 mixture of good and evil which mark the 

 human state. How opportune the work is 

 for the season, when the sports of the field 

 are about to begin, will be self-evident ; but, 

 if our judgment be correct, a more than 

 ephemeral interest will attach to pages 

 abounding in lively and useful matter of 

 many sorts, and they will find an enduring 

 \>lace in every library in which th 



knows how to value ability, industry, and 

 an excellent tone of sentiment in literary 

 composition." The LAND. 



EBS' CHBOXICLE. 

 \ twenty year 

 ompellert Colone 

 i the rod and th 

 ^lied with ardou 

 . various parts o 

 . America. To so!ac< 

 ,ad much, with the he!) 

 es, on his favourite pur 

 at last the happy though 

 j him that he might make 

 addition to the li> 

 jy recording his own exj ' 

 jserver and sla te. The n 



a is before us in two volumes of Reminit 

 jncesofun OM Sportsman, a work which i 

 likely to fulfil the hope expressed by it 

 author, that it may prove interesting to th 

 reader and instructive to the young sports 

 man. As one of the old school he sets hi 

 ;>inst the wholesale slaughter of me 

 dern battues, in which a thousand or fiftee; 

 hundred head of game are killed in a day 

 He thinks this barn-yard fowling very tarn 

 work compared to the actual pursuit of wih 

 creatures that .'ire allowed some chance c 

 escape, so as to give the sportsman the ylea 

 sure of testing his own skill and energy, an< 

 the sagacity and good trainii i 

 He also condemns the praci u 

 cause it is inseparable in this country 1'roi 

 excessive overstocking aprolifi 



source of ill-will betwe and tei 



ants, and a strong incentive lo poaching," 

 SPECTATOR, 



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