The Badminton Magazine 1897-03: Vol 4 Iss 20 (1897)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 55
s inconvenience and expense attending such entertain- ments in our own country. It has, however, considerable interest for us, for it left behind it, if I am not much mistaken, the great popularity of our race meetings. These gatherings, which followed the extinction of the former pageant, resemble… … No. 11 been held by many in comparatively slight esteem, began to take its place as a royal pastime, attended with much show and festivity. But while the Court and some of the more wealthy lords, even so far north as the estates of the Duke of Newcastle, turned hunting into a festival, the British…
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