Henry William Herbert 



Herbert, who wrote under the nom de plume of "Frank 

 Forester," was bom on April 7, 1807, an English gentle- 

 man, grandson of the Earl of Carnarvon, educated at 

 Eton College and Cambridge, and for some reason un- 

 known came to the new world to seek his fortune. At 

 the Classical Academy in New York he taught Greek and 

 Latin, and at the same time aided in the editing of the 

 American Monthly Magazine, which he left in 1835 after 

 establishing its high literary character. 



In 1834, Harper Brothers published his first work en- 

 titled The Brothers, followed by Cromwell in 1837 and 

 other historical novels followed in 1843 and 1844, and his 

 ablest historical work was, perhaps, The Roman Traitor 

 founded on the conspiracy of Cataline, published in 1846. 



His earliest sporting story, on which this writing is 

 based. The Warwich Woodlands^, first saw light in 1839 in 

 William T. Porter's American Turf Register, published 

 in New York, and it was then that he assumed the nom de 

 plume of "Frank Forester" at the suggestion of Mr. 

 Porter's brother George. 



This was followed by My Shooting Box in 1846, for at 

 that time he had ample leisure to pursue his love of the 

 field and the lure of the angle among the Warwick Wood- 

 lands of Orange County, New York, with his friend, 

 Thomas Ward, whom he loved to caricature and tantalize 

 and then immortalized by making him the hero of The 

 Warwick Woodlands under the name of "Tom Draw", the 

 anagram for Ward. 



The articles by Frank Forester, John J. Audubon. J. P. 

 Giraud, Jr., T. B. Thorpe, and others, entitled "Hunting 

 and Shooting in North America" in the first American 

 edition of Instructions to Young Sportsmen made up the 

 first work of a purely sporting character ever published in 



*"The Warwick Woodlands" was first published in book form by G. B. 

 Zieber & Co., Philadelphia, 1S45. The second edition, from which this 

 work is copied on account of the illustrations, was published in 1851, 

 Stringer & Townsend, as shown. 



