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months ago, and consequently not included in the Biblio- 

 theca, is another " Major," from the firm of Nimmo & Bain 

 (King William Street, W.C.). It is most beautifully printed, 

 handsomely bound, and profusely illustrated by masters 

 of the limning art, two impressions of each of eight original 

 etchings being, the one on Japanese, and the other on 

 Whatman paper. This edition will hold its own among 

 the best. Only 500 copies were printed, and it is now very 

 difficult to obtain one. 



The lovers and admirers of Walton, anglers and literary 

 men who know their Complete Angler well, its associations 

 and history, and have the privilege, if only occasionally, of 

 spending pleasant hours in a Waltonian library, can readily 

 sympathise with the words and feelings of Mr. Westwood, 

 when on the completion of his " Chronicle," on which he 

 had so long and lovingly laboured, he says : — 



" Here our task ends — the ultimate milestone on the long road 

 of more than two hundred years being reached at last. Through 

 our window, as we write these closing lines, streams cheerily (and 

 with a skimmer of young leaves and buzzing of insect wings), the 

 May sunshine — that sunshine that, of yore, gladdened Piscator on 

 his way through the Leaside meadows to his sport at matin-song, 

 and that broods, we are fain to believe, with a softened radiance 

 now, on his honoured grave in the grey pile of Winchester. Peace 

 be to his ashes ! — for his fame we have no fear ; the bygone 

 centuries have given their consecration to his work, the centuries 

 to come will ratify that consecration anew. How much of good 

 and great the future may have in store for it, it is not our province 

 to predict. Suffice it that looking up to the shelves of our 

 Angling Library, and to the Fifty-three several editions chronicled 

 in these pages, we must say already for the Father of Fishermen, 

 what he were too modest to say for himself could he return 



amongst us — 



" Si monumentum requiris 

 Circumspice ! " 



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