CHAPTER XIII. 



Lines to Walton Published in 1619 Letters 

 and References to Him by the Bishops of 

 Chichester, Winchester, Lincoln, and the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Henry Wot- 

 ton's Letter to Walton The Commendatory 

 Verses Prefixed to The Complcat Angler 

 Drayton and Ben Jonson Dr. Johnson and 

 Walton An Extract from The American 

 Review, 1830 Sir Walter Scott's Refer- 

 ence to Walton and Franck's Northern 

 Memoirs Some Extracts from James 

 Russell Lowell's " Introduction " to an 

 Edition of the Angler Conclusion. 



SOME CONTEMPORARY AND SUBSEQUENT 

 OPINIONS ABOUT WALTON AND " THE 

 COMPLEAT ANGLER." 



" There are them that have left a name behind e 

 them ; so that their praise shall be spoken of." 

 ECCLUS. xliv. 8.* 



|N the following pages I give a 

 few of the many references to 

 Walton and his work, which show 

 in what esteem he has always 

 been held both during and after his life. 



* This quotation was placed by Walton on 

 the title-page of his Life of Sir Henry Wottoti, 

 229 



