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LITERATL RE

▪ Easeuiopeodis of Rural orts : a Complete 11
atecoonst,Histeriesa, Practical, end Ihneripties, of
limiting, &hooting, Fishing, asing, 4.e. By G.
DILABERE P. Builtta,fing. A New Edition, .Re-
vised and Corrected. Laskin Longman.
So loog as human nature remains what it is, men
will always take delight in the sports of the field.
Bags reessas Nay be used against them, and truly,
at Ist eight, it may seem Marron that some score
of gentlest* should drew in red, and ride as if mad
over hedges and ditches in pursuit of a hare. Bat
the custom, like all customs, has something in its
favour. It le very clear that the noble art of Venery,
which arose from the necessity felt in the very first
ages of the world, that the stomach should be filled
once in the course of twenty-four hours, was con-
tinued for other reasons, when the stern necessity for
it had long paned away. We ahould be among the
last to deprecate this custom, or to warn the country
gentlemen of England from the hunting field. Sinai
the days of Somerville, of whom old Johnson writes,
that he " at least most be allowed to have set a good
example to men of his own clam by devoting part of
his tuna to elegaot knowledge, and that he has
shown by the wapiti which his poetry has adorned,
that ft le poseticable to be at 0609 a
&arta sponsor= and • man of letters,"
it has been adinitled that the hero of the hunting-
field may have the tames and capacities of a
scholar or a philosopher, of a student, or of a divine.
According to the author of the " Leviathan," man
naturally is in a state of war. But happily, in civilised
society, the destructive bent of his mind is kept in
order and restrained by the retributive code of laws
which moiety has established in self-defence. Our
warlike tendescies are strong, bat our fear of the
police or the Old Bailey as stronger ; and the madam
poacher takes out a sporting license, or keeps a peek
of hounds, or rents a manor, or chugs the wild dew,
or, a la Gordon Cumming,

WatTtlars tar away,
Os kan Waal vats Woad at the gateways at the day.

And if be gains no great stock of knowledge, if he
acquires no coloseal wealth by his pursuits--if he
finds no new market for Manchester, and no
new fields for missionary enterprise, at any
rate he returns with a readier eye, a more
vigorous digestion, a stronger step, and an
"ma nerve. As times go—as man is formed,
we are prepared to maintain that this is a great gain.
We may not wrong nature. Her law is plain and
easy to be undimmed. Far t or for prince,
for poor clerk or proud mtLtmaiee, for worldly
statesman or saintly bishop, there is but one plain
rule of life. Nature tells us that the body must work
se hard as the mind, that the mildest of to require
something more in the way of wridse than a gentle
tam or a noonday senator; and la this bet and
piping times of paw it is well that for the younger
and more energetic thwe are the manly misdates of
the country and the excitement of the hunting-field.
At least, it may be urged that such things are
better than the effeminate dissipations of large cities.
If they serve as a means of promoting friendly inter-
coarse between man and man—if they breed a
hardy and generous race—if On train up, as it
mow be admitted they do, good soldiers and able
officers—any attempt to put them down or
to oover them with obloquy must be re-
saved with oontempt and scorn. Our latest
hero, Havelock, does not invalidate the general
rale, that out-of-door pastimes help to make good
soldiers; and no one can say that Polehasupton
would have been a more earnest, self-denying, ex-
emplery chaplain, had he been less distinguished at
Eton or Oxford for his powers at cricket, or at a
rowing match. A book, then, like this of Mr. Blaims'a
is a welcome boon, and may expect to find a speedy
admittance into every country home. It is calcu-
lated to interest almost every ease of readers.
Upwards of twelve hundred closely printed
met, illustrated with more than six hundred
wood sagraviags, from drawings by Leech and
others, leave little for the moat ardent student
of rural sports to desire. Our author is en-
thusiastic, well-informed, a practical sportsman,
and completely rnuterof the subject in all its details;
bat when we turn to a section headed, " The
Martial Character of Man originated in Field-Sports,"
we doubt whether, in his wish to magnify his theme,
be has not—as enthusiasts often do—mistaken effect
for cause. At any rate the case of the advocates
of rural sports is pat in the most favourable light.
At the same time, as amount of information is sup-
plied as to pastimes ancient and modern, as to the
moiety of the victims of the hurter or the sports-
man, ant as to the beet modes of sporting, which
it will take many a year to understand and digest.
Mr. Biala*, besides entering into the historical and
philosophical aspects of his subject, discourse, on
hunting, conrang, hawking, shooting, &Nag,
=hinting, boxing, and devotes an appendix to
exercises ; and if the reader does not be-
seem an adept in all these pursuits, the fault lies
rather with himself than Mr. Blaine. We must add
that this new edition has been !who'd, and the in-
ilsrmatien conveyed has been brought down to the
Writ date. For instance, we find Mr. Remy, with
his new system of taming horses, is not omitted.
While paeeing through the press, the new Jockey
Gab rules appeared jolt in time for insertion. In
sporting, as in everything else, knowledge is pro-
gressive : and, as in. editor very properly remarks,
the last few years have contributed much inform-
don which ought to be embodied in an lincyclopmdia
enteral Sports. The result of this revision and
addition—and in some cases omission—is, that little
is left us to fled fault with or desire. We could have
wished that Mr. Blaine had been a little mere de-
cided in hie esedesenation of the monstrous earns"
which seems in so many cams to be the aim of rem
darn sporting; and we do think that is a book Mks
' this, which will have so extensive a circulation, and
which in some sort will be regarded as an authority,
some stand might have been made against a custom
—whisk appears to be prevalent in all parts of Eng-
land, if we may judge from the reports which ap-
pear in the provincial journals—of shooting every
rem specimen of wild bird or beast that makes its
appearanee. The wolf, the bear, the wild boar, we
are not sorry to find exterminated. We do not
regret the tiger, which at one time appears to have
bees an inhabitant of these islet ; but we do miss
the egret, whose snowy silken plumage was eagerly
sought for " to grace the helmets of the military, the
caps of the belles, and the turbans of the Turks and
Persians," and from oar hearts we execrate every
sportsman or gamekeeper who stupidly kills any
living cariosity that may find its way within the
range of his gun. Against such atrocious Van-
dalism it would have been well had our author
uttered an indignant protest.

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