22o Dr. Bethune's Edition. 



works included by the list, but also the 

 several editions, and when it is of a work 

 mentioned by Walton, an edition which 

 the good old man himself may have 

 seen." 



Difficult, indeed, would it be to find 

 anything in The Compleat Angler which 

 has not been " annotated " in some form 

 or other. In an "interview" with Mr. 

 Harting about his forthcoming edition, I 

 see he is made to say that Walton's 

 mistake about the cuttle-fish, in con- 

 founding it with the " Angler " or " Devil " 

 fish, has escaped notice. I think, if he 

 refers to Dr. Bethune's edition, page 38, 

 he will find he is mistaken : 



" The cuttle-fish, which is not properly 

 a fish, but of the class Mollusca, is con- 

 founded here with the Lophius piscatorius, 

 common angler, toad-fish, sea-frog, sea- 

 devil." 



Dr. Bethune's edition is certainly one 

 which every collector should possess, not 

 for its beauty of typography or illustration, 

 but for the collection of information about 

 Walton, and the "cordial, reverent and 

 sympathetic " criticism of its editor. There 

 have been several reprints of Dr. Bethune's 

 edition. In 1880 a reissue appeared in 

 New York by John Wiley & Sons, in 

 2 vols., demy 8vo, with this note : 



