INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS XXV 



America as was stated by W. T. Porter in his dedication 

 of the vohnne to Colonel Wade Hampton, Jr., dated 

 October 1st, 1840. 



In 1849, as Mr. Pond states, "his great sporting work, 

 Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces 

 in North America, Stringer & Townsend, publishers, was 

 greeted with the warmest enthusiasm throughout the land, 

 and to show the popular character and real merit of his 

 great work it must be known that nearly twenty editions 

 have been published since that time, and it is still con- 

 sidered a standard." 



To further show the versatility and industry of this 

 cultured sportsman, mention must be made of the many 

 illustrations which occur in his work. No doubt, he was 

 intimately acquainted with F. O. C. Darley — the leading 

 illustrator of the time — whose engravings in the Novels 

 of James Fenimore Cooper, Dickens' Pickwick Papers, 

 The Hive of the Bee Hunter by T. B. Thorpe, Knicker- 

 hocker Sketches of Washington Irving, and Hawthorne'8 

 Scarlet Letter, are the best of their time, and he must have 

 spent many hours with Darley in order that the latter 

 could produce the inimitable drawing of Tom Draw and 

 othei's equally good. While Forester availed himself, as 

 shown in Horse and Horsemanship, of the services of the 

 great painter E. Troye and the engravers on wood, N. 

 Orr and many others, he, however, largely illustrated his 

 own works. For instance in Fish and Fishing he states: 



"All the subjects were drawn by myself on 

 wood either from the fish themselves, or from 

 the original drawings in the possession of 

 Professor Agassiz." 



The tireless energy of the man is shown in A Complete 

 Manual for Young Sportsmen, where the fifty-five sketches 

 of birds, fish and game were all drawn by the author, and 

 in American Oame In Its Seasons, where twenty-one of 

 the subjects to illustrate the text were his work. 



The Clydesdale Stallion in Hints to Horsekeepers was 

 also from the quill of Herbert. The word quill is used 

 literally, as the Rev. R. Townsend Huddart, principal of 

 the Classical Academy of New York City, stated that 

 Forester's exquisite drawings were executed with crow 

 quills. 



