34 BOOKS ON FALCONR Y. 



The author of this book was falconer to the Earl of Eglinton, 

 and submitting it to the inspection of the Rev. A. Gillies, was 

 told that an early account of hawking should be prefixed. He 

 could only speak from practice, the other artfully, knowing 

 little of the practice but something of the history, offered to 

 supply the deficiency. Hence the preface in ridicule of " The 

 Origin and Progress of Language " then newly published, and a 

 fabulous account of hawking by the Emperor Arambombam- 

 boberus with Trebizonian Eagles on the alleged authority of a 

 MS. in the Grand Sultan's library. This bantering of the wit 

 produced the worst effect for the author, |who instead of 

 securing a rapid sale, found himself possessed of a mass of 

 waste paper. (Haslewood, Introduction to the Book of St. 

 Albans, 1810, p. 29). But what he himself wrote is reliable. 



50. ANON. Hawking Moralised. Reading. 

 1776. i2mo. 



A small chap book of poems on Hawking : good, bad, 

 and indifferent. Specimens quoted Gent's Mag., Oct. 1812, 

 p. 310. Not in Brit. Mus. Some Hawking Songs in Armiger, 

 "Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet," 1830 (pp. 24, 46, 393, 407). 

 Also a Song, with a woodcut, entitled " Hawking," published as 

 a broadside at Edinburgh. 1832. Brit. Mus. 840. m. 34 (7). 



The woodcut purporting to represent " Sir H. Glendinning " 

 is a rude copy of an engraving by C. Turner, from a painting 

 by Howe, of Mr. Fleming of Barochan, Renfrewshire, and his 

 falconer John Anderson. 



51. OSBALDISTON (W. A.). The British 

 Sportsman : or Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's 

 Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement .... with 

 particular Instructions for ... . Hunting Hawking, 

 &c. London, printed for the proprietor. 1792. 4to. 



With frontispiece and 42 plates ; one (p. 390) of heron-hawking. 



52. ANON. Essays by a Society of Gentlemen at 

 Exeter. [Quotation from Horace.] Exeter. Printed 



