VI PREFACE. 



regarded as angling analecta minora ; the present 

 ones as analecta major a. After the Delectus comes 

 the Gradus ad Parnassum — after prose compo- 

 sition come the Porson prize and Sapphics. 



I like method, and on it I broke ground, in 

 " A Handbook of Ans^linsf." I besian with ele- 

 raents and concluded with principles and practice. 

 I took my pupils to an angling academy, and 

 fitted them for matriculation in any piscatory 

 university. There I now have them ; and if I 

 have succeeded in initiating them into the mys- 

 tery and craft of angling for the trout and carp 

 tribes, and I assume that I have done so, I now 

 deem it high time to endeavour to put the last 

 polish on their " halieutics," by exercises on the 

 "high art" capture of salmon, and by correct 

 theses on the history and habits of that pride of 

 our fluvial families. * 



I self-constitute myself, as it were, a regius 

 piscatorial professor. I have been a public tutor 

 in the art these fourteen years, and to enable me 

 to obtain a higher degree, to fit myself for the 

 professorial chair, I returned to college again last 

 year, and passed a very studiotis term in the 



