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THE ANGLERS SOUVENIR. 



or who is carried into a boat on a Highlandman's 

 back, to fish for salmon on Loch Maree, need aspire 

 to such a distinction. Of fly-fishing, he may talk, 

 in season and out of season, 



" About it, Goddess, and about it," 

 with German Professors and French Members of 

 the Institute but a genuine angler he never can be. 

 The advice to anglers respecting the state of their 

 bowels, the danger of palsy or apoplexy to be ap- 

 prehended from wading, and the excess of drinking 

 a pint of wine, savour much of the precautions and 

 forebodings of a prudent bottom-fisher. Though 

 there are several passages of great beauty and 

 feeling in the " Salmonia," and many obervations 

 on natural history which are highly deserving of 

 attention, yet, notwithstanding that it has had an 

 extensive sale, it is not a popular book. Many have 

 read it who would not otherwise have looked into such 

 a book from curiosity to see what the President of the 

 Royal Society, claiming to be one of the first scien- 

 tific bodies in Europe, could say upon such a sub- 

 ject ; and others, who are desirous of reading such 

 works, be the author who he may, have perused it 

 with greater avidity in consequence of the previous 

 reputation of the author. It is of little use as an 

 angling guide ; and though the author appears to 

 have angled in the Scottish Highlands and in Stiria, 

 he scarcely appears to have seen any of the people 

 of these countries, for there is nothing like a cha- 

 racteristic sketch of popular manners in the book. 



