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style, and the vision has always dissolved my doubts 

 in regard to the validity of their claim to the true 

 apostolic succession." 



The incurable piscatorial proclivities of President 

 Cleveland and of his eminent surgeon friend Dr. 

 Bryant, of Joseph Jefferson and of Rev. Dr. van 

 Dyke himself, are matters of quite common knowl- 

 edge; but there are many guilty others not known 

 to the populace. There was Sir Humphry Davy, 

 Admiral Nelson, Sir Walter Scott, Patrick Henry, 

 Daniel Webster, " Christopher North " (John Wil- 

 son, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh), Lord Tennyson, Canon Kings- 

 ley, Audubon the naturalist, James Russell Lowell, 

 Henry Ward Beecher, President Harrison, Bishop 

 Potter, and James Whitcomb Riley; and think you 

 that Thomson, the poet of The Seasons, was not a 

 fisher? Davy tells in his Salmonia how, when the 

 Bishop of Durham inquired of the great Dr. Paley 

 " when one of his most important works would be 

 finished, he said, with great simplicity and good 

 humor, * My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when 

 the fly-fishing season is over.' ' And this reminds 

 us that Canon Greenwell died in this same Durham 

 only a year ago the eighteenth of January, at the ripe 

 age of ninety-seven years. A famous English archae- 

 ologist, he was known to the angling world as the 

 inventor of " Greenwell's Glory," a salmon fly which 

 has carried his name to rivers in all quarters of the 



