The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . MR. FERNIES HOUNDS.(Miofo; Elliott & Fil, Bater Street, W.) Harborough, which is still the best sporting novelin existence. Hunting in Leicestershire is bound up with ournational life and the history of the nineteenthcentury. Statesmen and Cabinet Ministers, likethe present Duke of Rutland, Lord Spencer, andMr. Chaplin, artists, novelists, soldiers, diplomat- to the call for yeomen, and one of its smallest butmost charming villages, whence I am now writing,sent several gallant lads to South Africa for threeyears. Of al
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . MR. FERNIES HOUNDS.(Miofo; Elliott & Fil, Bater Street, W.) Harborough, which is still the best sporting novelin existence. Hunting in Leicestershire is bound up with ournational life and the history of the nineteenthcentury. Statesmen and Cabinet Ministers, likethe present Duke of Rutland, Lord Spencer, andMr. Chaplin, artists, novelists, soldiers, diplomat- to the call for yeomen, and one of its smallest butmost charming villages, whence I am now writing,sent several gallant lads to South Africa for threeyears. Of all sports, hunting is perhaps thehappiest, healthiest, and most wholesome, andnothing but its own popularity can ever destroyit in England. 61 THE BOW AND CROSS=BOW ON THE CONTINENT. By COLONEL THE long-bow andcross-bow are ex-tensively used foramusement in France,Holland, Belgium, andin a minor degree inSwitzerland, though therespective popularity ofeach weapon varies inthe different all, the societies ofarchers and cross-bowmen are of very ancientorigin, and, though ofcourse fallen from theimportance which was theirs when the twoweapons were used in war, their members areboth numerous and enthusiastic in the pursuit ofthe particular branch of the sport which theyaffect. In France the long-bow is the favourite, the useof the cross-bow having declined during the Iaslfifteen vears, and the tendencv being to join themore popular rifle clubs. The Chevaliers du tir alarc, as the societies of archers are called, claimto have been in existence since 825, whenthey were established at St. Medard in Soisson, toguard the resting-place of the body of St. Sebastian,the patron saint of archers. The shrine was visi tedby numerous pilgrims, disorders took place, arc
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