DAYS OF DEER-STALKING IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS Including an Account of the Nature and Habits of the Red Deer With Highland Legends, Superstitions, Traditions, Folk-Lore, and BY WILLIAM SCROPE, ESQ. Author of "Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing" ILLUSTRATED BY SIR EDWIN AND CHARLES LANDSEER LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO. 1883 AMONG the works published in connection with field-sports in Scotland, probably none have been more sought after than those two most interesting books by Mr. Scrope, namely, "Days of Deer-Stalking" and "Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing," and yet it may be said that no works in that departments of literature have been more difficult to get. Indeed, their scarcity has been so great as frequently, when inquired for, to cause the remark, that it is almost in vain to go in quest of either. Again, when copies do happen to come into the market, they command such prices as to startle persons of moderate ideas, notwithstanding the very high interest and intrinsic value attaching to them. Such considerations have suggested the republication of the first named book. Since its original issue some changes have taken place with regard to minor matters, but the great scope of the work is as interesting and fascinating as ever. The points of interest are exceedingly varied in character, and meet the tastes of a wide circle. Whether one's bent leads in the direction of field-sports, natural history, topography, antiquities, or historical lore in connection with the Highlands in general, the reader, more especially if he be interested in Scottish incident, will find a charm and a source of interesting information in the volume not surpassed in such respects by any work of the kind. |