176 ANCIENT ANGLING AUTHORS 



The order in which some of the concluding 

 paragraphs are arranged is different in the two 

 books. Amidst the angling matter contained in 

 The Secrets of Angling, there are abruptly inserted, 

 without any previous explanation to account for their 

 presence, various instructions for japanning, and for 

 painting in oils and water-colours. The presence of 

 these instructions is probably explained by the fact 

 that this treatise on angling was first published, in 

 1704, among a collection of tracts on other subjects, 

 under the collective title of A Family Jewel ; or, 

 The Woman's Councellor. . . . L. A. Baldwin at 

 the Oxford -arms in Warwick - Lane, 1704. These 

 instructions on japanning and painting were then 

 probably inserted for the use of those house- 

 wives, for whom, apparently, the work was originally 

 intended. 



The angling instructions contained in these various 

 books have very little claim to originality. They 

 appear to me, judging from the description of the 

 method of fishing with boiled malt, to have been 

 probably compiled by some bottom - fishing angler 

 from the works of Walton and Chetham, and from 

 The True Art of Angling by J. S. 



Conyer's piratical theft of The Secrets of Angling 

 affords an interesting example of the literary frauds, 

 of which Addison complained in a paper in the 

 Tatler on 1st December 1709: 



The progress of my intended account of what 



