INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS V 



brance of Herbert, whose books are so dear to all of us, for, as 

 Viscount Grey of Fallodon said, "Books are the greatest and 

 most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for 

 pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power 

 of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent. " 



The Historical Society of the Town of Warwick is arranging a 

 pageant for the day of the unveiling in October, the date to be 

 announced later, and you will be glad, indeed, to know that 

 "Tom Draw's"' grandson, T. Harry Ward, of Sterlington, New 

 York, is to take a part. Draw being the anagram for Ward. 

 The Forester Society of America is co-operating with the Histori- 

 cal Society so as to make the day not only one of deep interest 

 but thoroughly instructive. 



Few, indeed, appreciate what Forester did for sport from the 

 year 1831 to the day of his death in 1858, but his writings for 

 generations and even centuries will still instruct sportsmen of all 

 ages, for he wTote of sport in its broadest sense, of the Trotting 

 horse, the Thoroughbred, the Morgan, the Draft horse. Shooting, 

 Hunting, Hounds, Bird dogs. Guns, Fish and Fishing, Rods, 

 Flies and Hooks, and as he said in his letter to the Press of 

 America : 



"I have taught, I have inculcated, I have put forth 

 nothing that I did believe to be false or evil, or any- 

 thing which I did not believe to be good and true. 

 In all my writings I have written no line of which I am 

 ashamed, no word which I desire to blot." 



The works of Frank Forester have gone through edition after 

 edition. The Warwick Woodlands, Horse and Horsemanship, 

 My Shooting Box, Field Sports of the United States and British 

 Provinces of North America, and Fish and Fishing are classics. 

 Goodspeed of Boston recently sold a Warwick Woodlands undated 

 edition for $20, and it is only two or three times in the year that 

 one comes in the market. There were sixty-three Forester 

 items in the Heckscher sale in 1909. 



Three years ago I motored from New York to Warwick with 

 Mr. F. E. Pond, late editor of the Sportsmen's Review and 

 The American Angler, a great admirer of Forester, and who 

 under the name of "Will Wildwood" edited Frank Forester's 

 Fugitive Sporting Sketches and wrote the Editor's Chapters for 

 Sporting Scenes and Characters. We took the route as near 

 as possible that Forester and Archer took when they went out for 

 their first day's shooting in Warwick, "loveliest village of the 

 vale. " The events of the day, the meeting with Mr. F. V. San- 

 ford, the late Mr. J. H. Crissey, Miss Crissey, Mr. G. F. Ketchum, 

 and Miss Florence Ketchum, the call at the Shingle House, now 

 the home of the Historical Society, our rambles over the hills and 

 dales of Warwick guided by Mr. Crissey, visiting the haunts 



