12 HINTS ON ANGLING. 



occur from time to time in every country are sufficient 

 to convince the thoughtful mind, that although the age 

 of chivalry is passed, the age of public justice and na- 

 tional happiness has not yet arrived. 



The English angler on the continent, it must be re- 

 membered, is a somewhat different personage from his 

 brother who plies his art in his own native land. The 

 former will, in most cases, be a man of lively curiosity 

 and enterprise. He will know something of the history 

 of Europe ; have a taste for some departments of the fine 

 arts; will possess political sentiments and feelings more 

 or less excited; the past events of the world's history will 

 still be matter of deep interest to him; and, in fact, he 

 will generally be a person who has some fair acquaintance 

 with the current literature of the age. On this account, 

 a book on angling in a foreign land must necessarily 

 deviate, both in matter and arrangement, from a similar 

 work, which proposes for its end merely the ordinary 

 purposes of a domestic manual. On entering into a 

 foreign country, a man's feelings and curiosity must be 

 very considerably excited, no matter what may be the 

 amount of his knowledge, or the current of his opinions. 

 The difference of manners, religion, language, and poli- 

 tical institutions, must develop new trains of thought, 

 and evolve new rules of judgment ; and hence it is that 

 no art or amusement has the same limited range for the 

 wanderer, that it has in his own country. 



Our main object, and indeed our heart's, desire, is to 

 extend the art of angling amongst all classes of persons. 

 We know it is calculated to exercise a beneficial influence 

 on their minds and morals, and to give the younger part 

 of the community a really right direction. The art, in 

 its very highest degree of perfection and skill, may soon 



