R. S. Surtees

Naturally, Mr. Puffington is not pleased by all this, and when he reads the account of the run with his hounds he nearly has a fit, and he resolves to take to his bed till Sponge is well out of his house.

Here we take farewell of our hero, and I will say a few words on the way in which Surtees in his sketches of country life indicates his appreciation that a change is coming over the land.

The Scamperdales, Jollyfords, and the older families are disappearing, and the new commercial and moneyed class is taking its place.

Puffington and men of his type are beginning to come to the front.

It is getting more difficult to live on the land as the older gentry had done, and estates are becoming rather a tax on a commercial fortune than the support of an aristocratic family.

Surtees represents the old landowners as somewhat out at elbows, trying in vain to compete with the new men who are buying up their estates.

In one of his novels we have a great Jewish magnate, Sir Moses Mainchance, who would have been practically impossible twenty years earlier.

Sport changes with society.

Naturally, Mr. Puffington is not pleased by all this, and when he reads the account of the run with his hounds he nearly has a fit, and he resolves to take to his bed till Sponge is well out of his house.

Here we take farewell of our hero, and I will say a few words on the way in which Surtees in his sketches of country life indicates his appreciation that a change is coming over the land.

The Scamperdale's, Jollyford's, and the older families are disappearing, and the new commercial and moneyed class is taking its place.

Puffington and men of his type are beginning to come to the front.

It is getting more difficult to live on the land as the older gentry had done, and estates are becoming rather a tax on a commercial fortune than the support of an aristocratic family.

Surtees represents the old landowners as somewhat out at elbows, trying in vain to compete with the new men who are buying up their estates.

In one of his novels we have a great Jewish magnate, Sir Moses Mainchance, who would have been practically impossible twenty years earlier.

Sport changes with society.