Fearing.— An Angling Library 75 



The library contains probably a greater number of 

 English "Acts" and French "Arrets" on the subject of 

 "fisheries," together with Danish, Dutch, German, Ital- 

 ian, Norwegian and Swedish government acts and laws, 

 with a few Russian, than any other single library, lne 

 library contains one superb example of the Finnish laws 

 in folio, each page engraved, print and borders of fish 

 and game, made in 1709, with an English translation in 

 manuscript on each opposite page done in 1720. 



It contains a virtually complete set of the publications 

 of the U S. Bureau of Fisheries up to 1912, and almost 

 complete sets of all the various state publications on the 

 subject up to the same date. One interesting part of the 

 library is the collection of illustrated post cards on an- 

 gling fishing, fisheries and fish, with many comic ones, 

 amounting in all to nearly 5,000 examples, including a 

 small volume of French ones, which play on the word 

 "peche" and the verb "pecher," but which are not kept 

 for general sight. Enough has been said, however, to 

 bear out the motto painted over the fireplace in the 

 library : 



"Whatever the wind, whatever the^ tide, 

 Here is good fishing by this fire-side." 

 This motto was suggested to the owner after reading 

 Eugene Field's delightful little essay on "Fender fish- 

 ing" in the "Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, and so, 

 "To those who love quiet, virtue and angling— this lor 

 Farewell." 



