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For my part, had I a river, I would gladly let all 

 honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, 

 where there is no protection, then nets, poison, 

 dynamite, slaughter of fmgerlings, and unholy baits 

 devastate the fish, so that " Free Fishing " spells no 

 fishing at all. This presses most hardly on the 

 artisan who fishes fair, a member of a large class 

 with whose pastime only a churl would wish to 

 interfere. We are now compelled, if we would catch 

 fish, to seek Tarpon in Florida, Mahseer in India: 

 it does not suffice to " stretch our legs up Totten- 

 ham Hill". 



ANDREW LANG. 



The following is a list of Walton's works : 



Life of Donne (prefixed to Sermons), ijyo; issued separately, 

 ^658. Life of Sir Henry Wotton (" Reliquiae Wottonianae "), 

 1651, 1654, 1672, 1685. The Compleat Angler, or the Contem- 

 plative Man's Recreation, 1653 ; second edition (with alterations), 

 1655 ; 1661, 1668, 1676 (with Second part by Cotton and third by 

 Col. R. Venables). Life of Hooker, 1665 ; second edition prefixed 

 to Hooker's ' Ecclesiastical Polity," 1666 ; 1676, 1682. Life of 

 George Herbert, ijo. Collected Edition of Lives, 1670, 1675. 

 Life of Robert Sanderson, i8. Of the numerous editions of 

 "The Compleat Angler " may" be noted: by Sir John Hawkins 

 (with earliest biography), 1760 (many editions) ; Illustrated Edition 

 (with biography), by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 1836; by R. B. 

 Marston (with life), 1888 ; Tercentenary, J. E. Harting, 1893 ; by 

 Andrew Lang, 1896. The "Lives," Ed. A. H. Bullen (Bohn), 

 1884 ; Austin Dobson (Temple Classics), 1898. 



