vj PREFACE. 



thing relating to Hunting, and the first writers 

 of the day on the subject, have acknowledged 

 their obligations to his pages. In the words 

 of the author of British Field Spons, " he 

 has so well described our present practice of 

 hunting, and given such solid and rational ad- 

 vice on the subject, that his treatise has, from 

 the day of its publication, become a general 

 text-book." 



This edition is published in a more convenient 

 form, and at a considerably less price than any 

 former one, with a view of giving a more ex- 

 tended circulation to a work, which indepen- 

 dently of its value in the eyes of the sportsman, 

 has always been perused with pleasure by all 

 classes of readers. 



The publishers have only further to add, that 

 in order to make the work still more complete, 

 a chapter on Coursing has been appended, 

 comprising the rules and laws relating to 

 that sport. 



