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have join'd in giving it their mutual Com- 

 mendation. ... Its suitable unaffected 

 Negligence and Simplicity of style, the 

 hardest to imitate; and almost peculiar 

 to himself, enlivened natural Descriptions, 

 the many curious Discoveries (for its Time) 

 in matters of philosophical and historical 

 Science, the happiest mixture of religious 

 and moral Instruction, enlivened with a 

 vein of innocent Humour, and chearful 

 entertainment appear in every page of it." 

 But it would be impossible to make 

 note of all the references to Walton, 

 DTsraeli, I remember, somewhere speaks 

 of his " Doric Sweetness " ; Wordsworth, 

 of " Meek Walton's heavenly memory." 

 Dr. Zouch, as Sir Harris Nicolas says, 

 "has almost exhausted panegyric in his 

 praises of Walton." 



FROM "THE AMERICAN REVIEW," 1830. 



One of the most interesting references 

 I have come across is the following, from 

 the Life by Sir Harris Nicolas : 



"There is much that the admirers of 

 Walton will read with pleasure in a 

 criticism which appeared in The American 

 Review of the Diary of Wilson, the 

 ornithologist. Wilson says : 



" ' 1 8 10, April 25. Breakfasted at 



