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figures and statements, we do not seem to possess a really 

 accurate statement as to the relative number of books on 

 angling "pure and simple," and on other piscatory subjects, 

 which have up to the present time been published in this 

 and other countries. 



This chapter may perhaps be appropriately concluded 

 with the mention of one or two treatises that deal with the 

 subject in hand, so that readers who are specially interested 

 in piscatorial bibliography may know where to find fuller 

 information, and very many interesting facts connected with 

 it, which the present limitation of space renders it impossible 

 to touch on. In addition to the "catalogues" and other 

 works above referred to, such as Wi^keys Angling Literature 

 (J. R. Smith, Soho Square), which, by the way, has many 

 inaccuracies scattered about its pages, and Mr. Estcourt's 

 paper in Anglers' Evenings (Abel Heywood, Manchester), 

 may be mentioned an erudite and charming little volume 

 by Mr. Osmund Lambert, entitled Angling Literature in 

 England (Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London), which 

 briefly surveys the whole of angling bibliography. Among 

 articles of considerable length which have appeared in 

 current literature during the last few years, the reader may 

 be referred to The Fly-fisher and his Library, by H. R. 

 Francis, which appeared in the " Cambridge Essays " in 

 1856 (J. W. Parker & Son, London), most pleasant literary 

 chit-chat, but necessarily somewhat discursive and limited 

 in its range ; and to " The Angler's Library " in the July 

 number of the Edinburgh Revieiu of the current year, 

 wherein will be found much curious and solid information, 

 as well as light and entertaining reading. Blackivood and 

 other magazines have also of late years contained more or 

 less lengthy notices on the bibliography of fishing ; and the 

 volumes of Notes and Queries, and TJie A nglers Note-Book 



