Xll INTRODUCTION. 



considerable time in turning over in my mind 

 the advisability, or otherwise, of publishing, 

 as a sort of appendix to this volume, a selec- 

 tion from the letters which were printed in 

 The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Neivs with 

 reference to my writings in that journal. 

 After much deliberation I have decided upon 

 suffering the entire number, with a few 

 trifling exceptions, to appear. They only 

 form a very small proportion of the volumi- 

 nous correspondence with which the Editor 

 and myseK were favoured ; but, such as they 

 are, I give them — together with my replies, 

 — not merely because they set forth the views 

 and impressions of various persons upon 

 topics of universal interest, but because I 

 conceive that a large amount of useful in- 

 formation may be gleaned from them, and 

 they may also serve to amuse my lady readers, 

 who will doubtless be interested in the 

 numerous queries which I was called upon 



