SNOBBERY AND TITLES SI11,—While sympathetically reading Mr. Lionel James's letter
in yo issue of May 1st, my mind suddenly switched on to the Preface Hawbuck Grange, one of Surtees's lesser-known works. It is not in to Mr. James's experience on the Berkshire farm. The hero of H buck Grange, Tom Scott, was a good type of sporting farmer who ke a couple of hunters, was interested in land-drainage, and once sta overniglit with a lord to hunt next day. Here is the preface: "All have got to say in the way of a preface to this work is that our fri Tom Scott, seeing his Adventures advertised as the sporting ads tures of 'Thomas Scott, Esquire,' wrote to us to say that he himself Mister (italics), Mr. Thomas Scott, and that he has Th Scott, Farmer, Hawbuck Grange,' in honest parliamentary-sized ktte without flourish or eye-mystifying gewgaw, on the back of his dog as anyone who likes to inspect it may see." London, 1847. 111 spoke Tom Scott, a yeoman farmer of the Old England of nearly I years ago.—Yours faithfully,A coN Abbey St. Bathans, Duns, Berwickshire. [This correspondence is now closed.—En., The Speatct. Gori.L1
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