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led to expect that angling would form his principal 

 subject. One might suppose that his book was first 

 written as an account of a tour generally, and that 

 the portions which treat more expressly of angling 

 were afterwards dovetailed in. He, however, 

 writes like one who could make a long and clever 

 cast, and who has a heart to feel all the beauties 

 which lie exposed to the honest cultivator of the 

 gentle art. His book will bear reading a second 

 time, even by one who may think him too partial 

 to the "orange-fly," and a leetle too ostentatious 

 of chronicling his punctual observance of the 

 "Sabbath." Were it not for his stating that he 

 goes to church, I should be sometimes inclined to 

 suspect him to be a hired distributor of tracts 

 to some sectarian " Society for Converting the 

 Heathen." Stephen Oliver, too, the Yorkshireman, 

 who makes the Border counties Northumberland, 

 Cumberland, and Westmoreland the scene of his 

 angling recollections, now and then gives us a touch 

 of the mock sublime, and writes as if he had just 

 been refreshing his memory from Harvey's " Medi- 

 tations in a Flower Garden." But fill up a bumper 

 here's to them all, and success attend them : The 

 Angler in Ireland, Hansard, and Oliver, light 

 hearts and well-filled creels, with a good account of 

 their next piscatory campaigns ! 



SIMPSOX. There is a clever little book, "Maxims 

 and Hints for an Angler," with illustrations by 

 Seymour, which you have not mentioned. 



