MUSA PISCATRIX. A Collection of Angling Songs. By 

 JOHN BUCHAN, Author of "Scholar Gipsies." With Six Etchings by E. 

 PHILIP PIMLOTT. Crown 8vo [Bodley Head Anthologies^ 5*. net. 



SELECTED FROM: 

 JOHN DENNYS 

 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

 PHINEAS FLETCHER 

 WILLIAM BROWNE 

 EDMUND WALLER 

 JOHN FLOUD 

 SIR HENRY WOTTON 

 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 

 SIR WALTER RALEIGH 

 WILLIAM BASSE 

 IZAAK WALTON 

 JOHN DONNE 

 JOHN CHALKHILL 

 CHARLES COTTON 

 JOHN BUNYAN 



ALEXANDER POPE 

 JOHN GAY 

 JAMES THOMSON 

 JOHN ARMSTRONG 

 TOBIAS SMOLLETT 

 SIR WALTER SCOTT 

 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 

 THOMAS TOD STODDART 

 THOMAS HOOD 

 THOMAS DOUBLEDAY 

 CHARLES KINGSLEY 

 MATTHEW ARNOLD 

 ROBERT BRIDGES 

 ANDREW LANG 

 AUSTIN DOBSON 



SOME TRESS NOTICES. 



" This volume of The Bodley Anthologies is certain to 

 delight the heart of every angler. It is an admirable 

 Yolume and an individual one." Black and White, 



" A capitally representative collection of verse referring 

 to the angler or his art. . . . The book is illustrated 

 with a series of etchings characterised by great delicacy 

 and beauty of detail, by Mr. E. Philip Pimlott." 



Westminster Budget. 



" An angler's anthology ought to be a charming book. 

 . . . This book is as delightful as such a book ought to 

 be, and might be recommended as an ideal pocket- 

 volume for anglers, if it were not too pretty to be 

 exposed to the risk of a wetting in a treacherous pool." 



Glasgow Herald. 



"Mr. Buchan has been happily guided. The book 

 deserves a place beside the * Compleat Angler ' itself." 



Birmingham Post. 



** This book is essentially ' The Angler's Song-Book.' 

 ... I hope I have cited enough to induce many readers 

 to want more, and therefore to possess themselves of this 

 pretty book. ... It contains some exquisitely charac- 

 teristic etchings by E. Philip Pimlott." 



The Fishing Gazette. 



" Every collector of angling literature will be glad 

 (and indeed bound) to have this dainty volume on his 

 shelves." Field. 



" Songs chosen with the judgment and taste that we 

 expect from such a gentle-hearted writer as the author of 

 ' Scholar Gipsies.' . . . The etchings, six in number, 

 by Mr. E. Philip Pimlott, are very beautiful and worthy 

 of this handsome production of the Bodley Head." 



Liverpool Mercury. 



" A tempting book, and one has to exercise some self- 

 control not to quote it in bulk.'' Daily News. 



** A feast of rare delight." Bristol Mercury. 



" We may be thankful for the extracts, which give us 

 a taste of the quality of Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, and 

 Andrew Lang ; and as charming as any of them is Mr. 

 Buchan himself in his epilogue to Master Izaak Wal- 

 ton." National Observer. 



" The preface which Mr. Buchan writes to the songs 

 is an excellent piece of literary work, full of the spirit of 

 poetry and of nature." Bradford Observer. 



JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON AND NEW YORK. 



