The Badminton Magazine 1895-09: Vol 1 Iss 2 (1895)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 13
stes and English manhood survive. It is the sporting interest to be found there. Had it not been for the love of sport that glowed in the breast of the great Conqueror, who ‘loved the tall deer as if he had been their father,’ no New Forest had ever existed for us at all. And had it not been for… … AN OLD MONARCH for game, regulated as to common rights in favour of these matters; and, whatever Anti-Sporting Leagues or Commoners’ Preservation Societies may strive to preach, it is to those sporting | instincts that we owe the existence of our great national park of the present day. Although it…
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