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...remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology of the sport as you could wish...
...life of hunting." Editor-Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master of an English hunt. A fox-hunting enthusiast, he has done much to further the sport in the U. S., where he says it is "certainly on the increase." He is president of the Master of Fox Hounds Association of America...
...journalist must be an all-round man. He must known whether the theology of the parson is sound, whether the physiology of the doctor is genuine, whether the law of the lawyer is good law or not. His education, accordingly, should be exceedingly extensive. If possible, he should be sent to college. He must learn everything the college has to teach: but what is more important, he should be sent to the school of practical life and of active and actual business. He must know a great many things, and the better he knows them, the better he will...
...plot is typical of Lawrence: a struggle between prurient prudishness and primitive purity. Yvette is the younger of two daughters of an English parson. Her mother had run away with another man, is no longer mentioned. Yvette's grandmother has taken her daughter-in-law's place in the household. "She was one of those physically vulgar, clever old bodies who had got her own way all her life by buttering the weaknesses of her men-folk." Yvette hates her grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens...
...Parson's Arrow...