X PREFACE. 



and are intended for the use of such curious 

 Anglers as may not happen to have con- 

 sidered these subjects in the light in which 

 they are there presented. Wider discussions 

 might soon have become incompatible with 

 our wish to avoid the error (not wholly 

 avoided even in these manuals) of speaking 

 too much of, to, or for, one's vain. self. 



Chiswick, June, 1839. 



