"Roorer Saurru, Survess." By himself and B.D. Cuming, London:
Hlackivond and Pp. xi, 390, YBa. ete The creator of "Jorrock: 60 years ago, but this is detailed account of his work. It is an excellent example fof a sporting biography, and Mr. Cuming is to be congratulated on the thoroughness and ability with which he has discharged a difficult bhut evidently congenial task. Sur-tees left behind him a. scanty and revised autobiographical sketch.
fr. Cuming uses this as a nucleus and builds round it x well-writter and well-documented study of the sportsman, author, and farming expert. For, though hunting was the passion of Surtees's life, he was much more than a mere sportsman. He was an observant, sensible man with a real literary "gift, and a grasp of rural polities rare among the squires and farmers of his time, He held sound, though unpopular, views on the importance of land drainage (the farmer liked having "the sap taken out of his land"), and, though a Protectionist, was as well aware as Disraeli that Protection was dead and damned, and had the courage to say so at a meeting of a North Country agricultural society 1850. His audience interrupted him but Surtees guns and told them they were just as likely to get the moon as Protection.
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