PREFACE ix 



a series of subjects which, I conceive, cannot fail to 

 interest various classes of my readers. Possibly I 

 may sometimes have travelled over the ground 

 covered in former volumes. If I have, I apologise. 

 When, however, that occurs, it is traceable, on my 

 part, to a desire to clearly elucidate some striking 

 event, for the perfect comprehension of which a note 

 or two of repetition would be necessary. 



I must tender my best thanks to Lord Rothschild 

 for his kindness in permitting me to dedicate this 

 book to him ; and I but express my own feeling and 

 that of the public in stating how much the great world 

 is indebted to the present and past three generations 

 of his family for their integrity in business, their 

 well-known charity and hospitality, with the attention 

 they have shown to the wants and requirements of 

 their tenantry, and of Agriculture in general, as well 

 as the performance, by the present head of the 

 house, of his important duties as Lord- Lieutenant of 

 Bucks. 



Although Lord Rothschild has been in occupa- 

 tion of Tring Park only a few years, he has so 

 much altered and beautified its interior as to make 

 it a home fit for a nobleman of such taste as he 

 possesses. For many years the house was occupied 



