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AN ANGLER'S REMINISCENCES. 



edition after edition has been consecutively made profitable to the publisher. It 

 is purely an American book for American anglers. There is no "English"' in it. 

 There is as much difference between the habitats and habits of the fishes of the 

 two continents as there should be between the methods and appliances of fishing 

 for the same, and the angler who would substitute one for the other would be 

 as likely, if he were a shooter, to hunt for jacksnipe with a rifle in a chapparal. 

 The field of indigenous angling literature was fallow when Norris entered it. 

 Lanman, Herbert and Bethune had worked the ground over, and so had Harry 



DOMIXE OLMSTEAD, 

 Grammar School, Xew Haven, 



MR. CHAS. F. HOTCHKISS, 

 A Xew Haven Forty-niner. 



Yenning, a Canadian, now in his eigthy-eighth year, who wrote with a masterful 

 pen of the haunts of trout, salmon and land-locked salmon years before. Lan- 

 tnan's volumes, entitled "The Wilds of North America," which covered almost 

 the entire surveyed domain of this continent, and much that was primeval, were 

 printed in 1845; but to the youth of this country his utterances were as dead 

 languages then, and never so much prized as now. when long time out^of print. 

 Norris' book came opportunely, and it has continued opportune ever since. Latter- 

 day aspirants have written books of positive merit, Louis Rhead in lead, but 

 the ichthyologists have very properly, doubtless, first read up Thad. Norris. In 

 order to do full justice to his subject he would hardly be wise to modify or change. 



