The Hunter's Annual, with its scarlet coat, is the largest
of all the Annuals—the huntsmen require a wide field for their spoi t—being, in fact, s set of four large folio prints of hunting-pieces, with short de- scriptions of each ; forming the first number of a periodical work. The pictures represent the huntsmen and bounds of the Royal Hunt, the Belvoir, the Melton, and the Bramshill; and not only men, but horses and dogs, are portraits. To sportsmen they will doubtless be very interesting; but to us, who pursue other game than foxes— though we have now and then to run down some crafty fox of a poli- tician—the portraits of a flock of sheep or a drove of oxen would be almost as attractive. We therefore leave the task of criticism, as far as the likenesses of the men and animals are concerned, to those who know the originals. It is sufficient for us to bestow due praise on the pictorial skill of R. B. DAVIS, the painter, and the care and elabora- tion of I. IV. GILES, the lithographic draughtsman. The plates rank amongst the most finished and effective specimens of lithography.
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