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great deal of space is devoted to fishing with salmon roe, a 

 bait which he seems to think an important novelty, while, 

 at the same time, he shows utter ignorance of the manner 

 in which it is to be made the deadly lure which, under 

 certain circumstances, it too surely is." 



Mr. Chatto, just mentioned, himself entered the lists an 

 author in the next year (1835) under the pseudonym of 

 "Fisher;" and his Anglers Souvenir is a clever and useful 

 book, and deserving of the last edition published in 1877 

 with Mr. G. Christopher Davies, no mean angling author, 

 as its editor. 



We now come to a book which, though to some extent 

 superseded by other and fuller works, may almost be said 

 to mark a new era of angling literature. It is the Art of 

 AiigUng in Scotland, by Thomas Tod Stoddart, published 

 in 1835. He published other works later on, notably the 

 Aitglers Companion in 1853, of which no fly-fisherman 

 should fail to obtain a copy when he can. Stoddart is a 

 most practical instructor, and was the first to thoroughly 

 exhaust the subject of fishing with a zvorni in clear zuater. 

 There does not seem much connection between poets and 

 worms, but Stoddart was one of the former, and his 

 writings show that he felt all the poetry of angling. 

 Another great authority on fly-fishing comes next in the 

 person of Alfred Ronalds, whose Fly-Fisher's Entomology, 

 first published in 1836, and since then gone through seven 

 editions, will long remain a standard authority in its par- 

 ticular line. No one who aims at being a scientific fly- 

 fisherman or fly-maker should be ignorant of the contents 

 of this book, the excellently executed plates giving, with 

 some trifling inaccuracies, a coloured representation of the 

 natural fly, and of that to be produced artificially. The 

 book is a great authority, especially for what may be called 



