TROUT FISHING 



By WILLIAM EARL HODGSON 



CONTAINING A FACSIMILE IN COLOUR OF A "MODEL 



BOOK OF FLIES " FOR STREAM AND LAKE, ARRANGED 



ACCORDING TO THE MONTH IN WHICH THE LURES 



ARE APPROPRIATE 



Large crown 8w, cloth y gilt top 

 Price 75. 6d. net 



SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS 



THE FIELD." The pictured fly-book at the beginning of the 

 volume is undoubtedly the finest piece of work of the kind that has ever 

 been produced and published in this country, and comes as a revel ^tion 

 of what can be done. The flies stand out from the page with marvellous 

 reality. The illustrations and the letterpress are well matched. . . . We 

 have not had more pleasure from a book for a long time." 



THE SPORTING TIMES. "It is a scholarly and charming book, 

 written by a man who knows what he is writing about. There is fascina- 

 tion in every chapter." 



BAILY'S MAGAZINE." Mr. Hodgson's book stands apart from 

 the mass of angling literature. We may not always agree with him ; but 

 when our disagreement is most complete, we never for a moment lose a 

 sense of respect for the author's clarity of thought, nor our feeling that we 

 are with a writer who is raising the literature of our favourite sport to 

 a higher intellectual plane. . . . The 'Book of Flies' bears some of 

 the very best coloured figures of flies we have ever seen." 



THE SPORTSMAN. " Fascinating. ... He discourses with un- 

 mistakable authority. . . . And the whole book is stylishly and racily 

 written." 



THE MORNING LEADER." A very original and delightful book. 

 . . . The beautiful coloured fiontispiece after Rolfe, and the unique and 

 charming facsimile Book of Flies, wherein the delicate art of Mr. 

 Mortimer Menpes has been gently guided by the precept of Mr. Senior, is 

 s omething that Mr. Hodgson should congratulate himself upon. ... To 

 all intents and purposes an edition de luxe." 



THE LIVERPOOL COURIER. "These pages the 'Book of Flies' 

 are exquisite specimens of the highest class of colour printing. . . . 

 Mr. Hodgson writes in an extremely entertaining and informative 

 manner." 



THE STAR. "Fascinating. . . . The artist is Mr. Mortimer Menpes, 

 and the delicate accuracy of his colour is amazing. ... Mr. Hodgson 

 writes with the true gusto of the angler." 



THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL. It is a book that will delight the 

 angler's heart, and that on more counts than one ; in the first place, be- 

 cause it is so charmingly written ; in the second place because the stand- 

 point is so independent and scientifically critical ; and lastly, because it 

 goes far to emancipate the fisherman from the hampering influence of 

 many a conceit repeated with reverential deference in every modern hand- 

 book, but which many anglers, from their own unformulated experience, 

 have long suspected to be of doubtful value and questionable application." 



THE OUTLOOK." He has a pretty skill of his pen. ... In fact, 

 all through these pages Mr. Hodgson writes in a mood at once reflective 

 and bold, and he writes with eloquence too." 



PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 



