IRatuce (Rotes ; 
ttbe Sdbovne Societ^j’s nOagasine. 
No. 135. MARCH, 1901. VoL. XII. 
SELBORNIANA. 
Annual Meeting and Conversazione. — The President has 
fixed the evening of Thursday, May 16, for the annual meeting 
and conversazione. Further particulars will be duly announced ; 
but this early intimation of the date is given so that members 
may keep themselves disengaged. 
The New P'orest in Danger. — We hear from the village of 
Lyndhurst that sometimes, like the frog that tried to rival the 
ox, seems to think itself a town, that there are new proposals as 
to a light railway, electric light and other cockney abominations 
that threaten the amenities of the New Forest as a national 
home of beauty and repose. Fortunately, anybody can lodge 
a protest against a light railway scheme ; but forewarned is 
forearmed, and it may be necessary, if anything more is heard 
of these egregious philistinisms, to invoke the assistance of the 
Amenities Committee of Parliament. 
Alleged Sport. — -Under this title our contemporary. The 
Morning Leader, recently published the following leaderette : — 
“ The King has already shown, on more than one occasion, that he is no 
worshipper of precedent, hut can make a precedent for himself when necessary. 
It is to be hoped that he will see fit to put down that debased form of alleged 
sport, dear to Cockney tradesmen learning to ride, known as ‘ stag-hunting.’ A 
more correct description is tame deer hunting, and the quarry has often to 
be pushed or dragged along the road before its pursuers can induce it to 
spike itself on some fence or railings. The Kev. J. .Stratton, of Wokingham, 
who has consistently, and persistently, denounced this cowardly barbarity, states 
that he knows positively that the late Queen was strongly opposed to ‘ stag- 
hunting.’ We can well believe it — and we cannot imagine that the King can look 
with approval on this vulgar parody of sport. Queen Alexandra’s love of animals 
has been known and read of by all men for many a year, and surely she must re- 
gard the performances of the followers of the Royal Buckhounds with scorn and 
(letestation. A word from the throne would end the miserable and disgraceful 
business.” 
