222 " Der Vollkommene Angler'' 



for translation into the only edition of 

 Walton into a foreign language that has 

 appeared. " Ephemera " seems to have 

 set Walton up in order to knock him down. 

 He is like a good-humoured, but often 

 irate, schoolmaster, " lecturing " a scholar 

 for his mistakes, and then putting him 

 right in a solemn and lengthy manner. 

 His edition, with his voluminous notes, 

 was translated into German by T. Schu- 

 macherr, and published in 1859, with 

 illustrations by P. Salomon & Co., of 

 Hamburg, under the title of 



"DER VOLLKOMMENE ANGLER." 



After a good deal of advertising in 

 Germany, I succeeded in obtaining a copy, 

 and find that, as well as "Ephemera's" 

 notes, many of those by Sir John Hawkins 

 are also translated, and some by the trans- 

 lator added. But what could a German 

 reader be expected to think of Walton 

 when the German publisher apologises 

 for a "certain heaviness" in him "which 

 could not be avoided in the translation," 

 and the editor continually corrects the 

 author in this style ? 



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