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Quid sil pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
The Hunting Field. By Harry Hieover, Author of “The 
Stud,” “ Practical Horsemanship/’ &c. London : Longman and 
Co., Paternoster-row, 1850. Small 8vo, pp. 221. 
Hardly have four short months flown over our head since we 
were, upon paper at least, riding alongside of our friend Harry 
Hieover “ on the road,” listening to instruction tended to his friend 
and pupil on that practical branch of equestrianism, with the de- 
light which conviction of the utility and truth of advice never fails 
to impart to the mind into which it is poured in such pleasing man- 
ner and felicitous expression as Harry has the command of, and 
the good sense to make use of ; — we repeat, hardly have four 
months elapsed, and we find Harry now inviting us to take a ride 
into “the hunting field” with him, with a promise that we shall 
there hear “the best advice he can give” on the subject of riding, 
not with but to hounds : there being, as our reader will learn as 
we proceed (should he not catch our sporting phraseology at once) 
all the difference in the world, in the meaning conveyed by the 
prepositions with and to in the sense in which they are here in- 
troduced. Any snob who happens to own a horse, or to have in 
his purse a couple of guineas to hire “ an ’unter” for the day, if he 
can ride at all, is able to ride with hounds ; but it is only the ex- 
perienced sportsman — in our author’s language “the hunting man” — 
who knows how to ride to hounds. In this sense, riding-a-hunting 
becomes a branch of knowledge acquired by the favoured one alone 
to whom it comes, from his fortunate position in life, instinctively, 
or, at least, imperceptibly, through imitation and practice, that 
being the ordinary way in which knowledge of this description is 
attained ; nor, indeed, did we know of any other channel through 
which it could be acquired until the publishers had put into our 
hands “ The Hunting Field, by Harry Hieover.” Even to the 
cockney ’unter, who turns out in his unsoiled scarlet and his apology 
