(A novel of seventeenth-century France),
Rosine (1877)
(A novel of the French Revolution).
There remain two books of purely sporting significance, and Katerfelto.
Market Harborough (1861), the pride of the Pytchley, is hardly a novel. It is a string of hunting and horse-dealing episodes into which Whyte-Melville threw all that he had of science and of enthusiasm. Riding Recollections (1878) are what their name implies. It is not for any but the expert to criticize these books, which are held in some quarters to be essential textbooks to a hunting education. Katerfelto (1875) will also escape comment here, but for a different reason. Among my childhood memories this Exmoor tale glows adored, uncriticized. How will it read to-day? To put it to the test frightens me. I dare not open it.
EDITIONES PRINCIPES
FICTION, POETRY, ESSAYS
1850
HORACE: Odes, Epodes and Carmen Sæculare Translated into English verse by G. J. Whyte Melville Esq., late Coldstream Guards. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Stationers Hall Court. 1850. 1 vol. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8½). Pp. (viii) + 120. Dark green cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers.
1853
DIGBY GRAND: An Autobiography. By G. J. Whyte Melville. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1853. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾).