XXVI INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS 



In Field Sports of the United States and British 

 Provinces of North America not only were the initial 

 woodcuts of the chapters his efforts, but also the tail pieces 

 and nine full-page illustrations. 



His scope was not narrowed to sporting subjects how- 

 ever, for the frontispiece in the Captains of the Roman 

 Republic — The Battle of Actium — was composed and 

 drawn by him. In The Fair Isabel, translated from the 

 French story by Eugene Sue and published by Richards 

 and Company of New York in 1846, appear the words on 

 the title page "With original illustrations by the Trans- 

 lator." Then again in the Quorndon Hounds he most at- 

 tractively shows the English scenery and the methods of 

 hunting in three charming pictures which would do credit 

 to Ferneley or Wolstenholme. 



To match his strength in the field, Herbert showed a 

 wonderful literary industry during the twenty-five years 

 previous to his death, not only writing sporting books, 

 stories, and sketches but ventured into biographies, his- 

 torical novels, and tales. He wrote poems, and also edited 

 and translated many works besides contributing to and 

 editing a number of the leading magazines, companions, 

 and reviews of the day. 



His translation of The Prometheus and Agamemnon of 

 Aeschylus he dedicated to Edward Everett, Esquire, late 

 President of Harvard College, and it was published by 

 John Bartlett, Bookseller at the University in 1849. From 

 his writing, Herbert must have been a good man to 

 hounds, and he also appreciated sport of all kinds because 

 in 1853 he edited an American edition of Major Camp- 

 bell's Old Forest Ranger, or Wild Sports of India, and in 

 1856 he edited Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, 

 so well known to all the followers of the chase. 



Herbert killed himself at Stevens Hotel, in New York, 

 leaving a few words to the Press of America, of which 

 the following is a part : 



"As a writer let me be judged, as a man let 

 God judge me." 



"I implore not praise, not a favorable con- 

 struction, I implore silence." 



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

 forth nothing that I did believe to be false or 



