The Sportsman's Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Sportsman's Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, Vol. 2: A Periodical Devoted to the Genuine Sports of the Field and Interesting Illustrations of Natural History, Indispensably Connected With the Various Ramifications of the Chase, the Turf, the Stream, &C., &C., With Amusing and Instructive Anecdotes, and Elegan On the commencement of the second volume of this publication, the Editor feels himself imperiously called upon to address his readers, not because custom has rendered such a proceeding indispensable, but on account of a sinister influence which has been actively and enviously operating against the work, from the period when it was first announced for publication. Many instances have occurred in provincial towns, where the Sportsman's Cabinet has been ordered, and either the Old or the New Sporting Magazine substituted for it, accompanied with the message, that the Sportsman's Cabinet was discontinued. Others again have been prevented from ordering this work, from being told that it would soon be given up. The first volume, however, has been completed, the second is in progress, and the Editor embraces this opportunity to state, that he had contemplated the present publication for several years, during which period, he had been sedulously preparing for it: so much so, that when the first sheet was put to press, he was in a situation to continue the work for seven years, as far as regards general preparation. Of the truth of this assertion, the volume now before the public, is a proof: and it is proof also, that the Editor has personally attended the operations of the chase during the whole season, and consequently, what has appeared on the subject has been the result of personally-practical observation, not concocted in the garrets of the metropolis by persons who know not a fox hound from a pointer, who, so far from appearing in the field, were never on horseback, who know not a grouse from a partridge, or scarcely the muzzle from the butt-end of the fowling piece, and whose practical knowledge of any ramification of the aggregate science upon which they profess to write, amounts to the capture of half a dozen minnows near Sadler's Wells, or two days unsuccessful angling in the River Lea. Yet such have been the literary caterers for genuine sportsmen for the last half century! Let us take a retrospective view of the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.