AUTHORS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. loi 



part in general which never feels the drought of summer, * the 

 trees planted by the water-side, whose leaf shall not wither.' " 



In 1858, too, Mr. Francis Francis makes his first appear- 

 ance in print with his Angler s Register, and ever since 

 then he has been a busy writer, as the columns of the 

 Field and contemporary periodical literature bear witness. 

 His magniun opics is A Book on Angling, first published in 

 1867, since which date it has passed through several editions, 

 and is long likely to remain one of the chief and most reliable 

 text-books for anglers of all kinds. Probably no fisherman 

 living has had greater experience in almost all the waters 

 of the United Kingdom, and in all kinds of fishing, and 

 therefore he is one of the safest guides an angler can follow. 

 The medical profession supplies another piscatory author 

 in the person of Mr. W. Wright, " Surgeon Aurist to her 

 late Majesty Queen Charlotte, &c," who in 1858 published 

 his Fishes and Fishing ..." anatomy of their senses, their 

 loves, passions, and intellects." It is a curious medley of 

 selections apparently from his note-book, but fairly in- 

 teresting, and flavoured with good anecdotes. " Otter's " 

 Complete Guide to Spinning and Trolling first appeared in 

 1859, and has gone through several editions, as has also 

 his Modern Angler, first published in 1864. Captain Alfred, 

 of Moorgate Street, is the " Otter " in question ; and as he 

 has had great experience and success as an angler, espe- 

 cially in the Thames and other waters within easy reach 

 of London, those who go the " home circuit " will find his 

 pleasantly written little book most helpful. Captain Alfred 

 is also a most skilful painter of fish. 



Another Master in piscatorial Israel, and of almost 

 boundless experience like Mr. Francis Francis, is Mr. H. 

 Cholmondeley Pennell. His first book. Spinning Tackle, 

 appeared in 1862, and Mis Angler Naturalist, Fishing Gossip, 



