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that " The History of the Red Hackle " is 

 the title * of the second chapter of a very 

 delightful modern treatise on fly-fishing, 

 entitled favourite Flies, by Mrs. Mary 

 Orvis Marbury, an American lady ; and 

 a very interesting chapter it is, showing 

 " how one little fly has held its name and 

 form from century to century." Most of 

 the writers of any note who have recom- 

 mended a red cock's hackle for use in 

 the imitation of some natural or unnatural 

 fly are quoted, from /Elian's famous de- 

 scription, in his JDe Animalium natura, of 

 the artificial fly made by the Macedonians 

 from " feathers which grow under a cock's 

 wattles," down to Dame Juliana, Walton, 

 Cotton, and the writers of our own day, 

 including Pennell, Halford, Pritt, etc. 

 The coloured plate of seventeen "hackle 

 flies " which illustrates this chapter is very 

 good indeed. If our authoress had 

 written nothing but this " History of the 



* ' Favourite Flies and their Histories. By Mrs. 

 Mary Orvis Marbury. With many replies from 

 practical anglers to inquiries concerning how, 

 when, and where to use them. Illustrated by 

 thirty-two coloured plates of flies (nearly three 

 hundred flies), six engravings of natural insects, 

 and eight reproductions of photographs. Boston, 

 U.S.A. : Houghton, Miftlin, & Co. ; London : 

 Sampson Low, Marston, & Co., Limited, St. 

 Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane." 



