8 THE IDYL OF THE SPLIT-BAMBOO 



globe. The wings of this fly are mottled black and 

 brown, the legs are made from a red and black 

 hackle-feather, and the body is dark-brown or olive 

 silk or wool and ribbed with yellow silk or gold 

 tinsel. 



Continuing with these later days, it would be diffi- 

 cult to cite an example of more capable versatility 

 than that exhibited in the life of S. Weir Mitchell, 

 M. D. equally noted as neurologist and novelist 

 and he did not omit a keen enthusiasm for ang- 

 ling. There is Dr. Richard C. Cabot, who is the 

 accomplished Assistant Professor of Medicine at 

 Harvard University and the man responsible for the 

 modern Social Service hospital idea, whose inspiring 

 book, What Men Live By, should be read and re- 

 read by everybody, angler or otherwise; and his 

 confrere at Harvard, Dr. James G. Mumford, au- 

 thor of another charming volume, A Doctor's Table 

 Talk. The names of the sculptor J. Q. A. Ward, of 

 " our friend " John Burroughs, of Thomas A. Edi- 

 son, Eugen Ysaye the great Belgian violinist, An- 

 drew Lang, Viscount Edward Grey, our Secretaries 

 of State and of the Treasury, Robert Lansing and 

 William G. McAdoo, the Assistant Secretary of the 

 Interior, Alexander T. Vogelsang, of Marshal Joffre, 

 and Sir Harry Lauder, and of a multitude of others 

 which time and space alone forbid that we should 

 mention, come to memory; the great surgeon Mc- 

 Burney, of appendicitis fame, neither do we forget 



