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written with most minute care by an angler of fifteen 

 years' constant practice, of great and varied observation, 

 unprejudiced by egotistical theory, of sound judgment, 

 and whose wholesome knowledge of the habits of trout 

 renders all that he says about the best modes of captur- 

 ing entitled to the utmost confidence. . . . Every 

 young fly-fisher, desirous of becoming proficient in by 

 far the pleasantest and best branch of the angling art, 

 should study the excellent and manifold maxims laid 

 down in this most valuable little treatise. The tyro 

 that does may rest assured that he is in his right path, 

 following a practical, experienced, clever, and con- 

 scientious guide." 



ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. 



" . . . By carefully studying the precepts so 

 pithily and pleasantly enunciated here, no tyro need 

 despair, after he has undergone his probation, of 

 becoming a practical angler ; and even those who 

 worthily aspire to that distinction already, and have 

 acquired the necessary neatness of hand and quickness 

 of eye, may have their observation not a little shar- 

 pened and their prejudices sapped. The treatise is 

 remarkably complete in all the details of the trout- 

 fishing art. Fresh- water trout the causes 'of their 

 decrease, the season when they are in highest condition, 

 and every phase of their natural history claim a 

 chapter. All the minutise of an angler's equipment 

 are gone into with quite a Gerard-Dow minuteness ; and 

 so on to artificial fly-fishing, flies, fly-dressing, May-fly 

 fishing, and trouting with the fly. Angling with the 

 worm, which he considers to possess one very solid 

 advantage over fly in the superior size of the trout 

 caught, is also copiously handled, as well as minnow 

 and parr-tail baits. . . . The author has shown, to 



