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Excerpt from Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country: Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and a Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of West Florida At this point Cuming's tour is concluded. In order to give completeness to the work, however, the first editor added the journal of a voyage taken in 1799 by a gentle man oi accurate observation, a passenger in a New Orleans boat.'...

Excerpt from British Sport: Past and Present This book has been compiled in pursuance of a suggestion that extracts from the works of old writers on sport, with passages from those of modern authorities, would be of interest to sportsmen who take interest in the history of the subject. No attempt has been made to trace the development of sports till they reached the form in which we know them, and indeed an attempt to render justice to any o...

A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South following what seems to be a convoluted route.

A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South following what seems to be a convoluted route.

Excerpt from With the Jungle Folk: A Sketch of Burmese Village LifeMoung pi-io lone squatted on the platform of the little watch-hut puffing his cheroot, while he gazed blankly over his knees at the night. Before, and on either hand, the whispering grain waved in moonlit billows through deepening dusk' to the jungle outlined black and ragged against the purple sky, a grey sea murmuring in the night wind. Now an owl chased its shadow over the p...

No better way could have been found to mark the end of the long unchallenged reign of Cranmer's Prayer Book than Dr Cuming's superb charting of its history.' Journal of Theological Studies

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Excerpt from Covert and Field Sport A l4-bore gun was generally used. At a later period sportsmen had taken advantage of the reduc tion in length of barrel to try larger bores, for Mr. Lemon, 'the most able park and gamekeeper, ' who wrote an undated tract on shooting during the later years of the century, tells us that there is 'not the utility in a wide bore some sportsmen use, ' and it should not exceed 'the size called fifteens, ' the bar...

Excerpt from Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country: Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a Trip Through the Mississippi Territory and Part of West FloridaAt this point Cuming's tour is concluded. In orda to give completeness to the work, however, the first editor added thejoumalofavoyagetakenin 1799 byagentle man of accurate observation, a passenger in a New Orleans boat. From just abov...

Excerpt from Fox and Hounds Time had been when fox-hunting and fox-hunters lay under social ban. Lord Chesterfield kindly bore testimony to the good intentions of him who followed the hounds, but could say little else in his favour: in the days of Queen Anne a 'fox-hunter, ' in the esteem of some, meant a boor or something very like it but the slighting significance attaching to the word must surely have become only a memory long ere Beckford...

The volume concludes with a masterly survey of the literature of missionary history by Bishop Neill.

Some of the papers raise issues of the first importance, others fill gaps in our knowledge.

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Walter Scott Pub. Co. Subjects: Painters Art / General Art / Graphic Arts Art / History / General Art / European Art / Individual Artist Biography