INTRODUCTORY. 



\AVE you read "The Compleat 

 Angler"? If you have, and 

 are also acquainted with the 

 Author's other writings, then these pages 

 may perchance refresh your remembrance 

 of them; but their object and the hope 

 of the writer is to make Walton and 

 a few earlier angling writers known to 

 some to whom they are only names. 



Looking back through a life, a never- 

 failing delight of which has been the 

 devouring of books, I confess that not 

 many have had such an enduring charm 

 for me as those of Walton. His 

 " Compleat Angler " is the first book 

 I can remember reading. I have the 



