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information they require on some particular branch of 

 fishing, or for some particular angling expedition. Thus, if 

 there is no very great amount of absolute " originality " 

 among our angling authors, there is an abundant supply of 

 diversity, and though in one sense they may be like one 

 another, they are " like in difference." 



The angling works of the present century being so nume- 

 rous, we must perforce limit ourselves to only the mere 

 mention by name of many of them ; and, as the great 

 majority of them are easily obtainable, we shall not to any 

 great extent call in the aid of quotations from them, espe- 

 cially as this and the following chapter are intended rather 

 for the purposes of reference and " indication " than of 

 criticism. 



Taylor's Angling in all its Branches, published in 1800, 

 is a compendious and fairly written manual, and recom- 

 mended by Sir Harris Nicolas in his editions of Walton ; 

 and Daniels' Rural Sports of the following year contains a 

 good deal of readable matter on fish and fishing. The 

 Kentish Angler of 1804 is one of the rare local books, and 

 may still be consulted with profit. Mackintosh's Driffield 

 Angler, of 1806, is still worth reading, especially by anglers 

 in Midland streams. Robert Salter published his 3Iodern 

 Angler in 181 1; but must not be confounded with 

 Thomas Frederick Salter, a well-known hatter of his 

 time, whose Anglers Guide, published in 18 14, has gone 

 through a dozen or so editions, and may still be called a 

 standard work. The same may be said of Bainbridge's Fly- 

 fishers Guide, 18 16, the last edition of which was published 

 in 1840. It was illustrated with coloured plates repre- 

 senting upwards of forty flies of the most useful kind, 

 copied from nature, and well taught how 



" To lightly on the dimpUng eddy fling 

 The hypocritic fly's unruffled wing.'' 



