540 LITERATURE OF SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 



include cognate matter. The New Bibliotheca Piscatoria 

 of Westwood (1861, and Supplement, 1869) claimed to 

 " include 650 distinct works on the sport " of angling ; but 

 no statement appears to be made on this point by the 

 authors of the Bibliotheca of the present year. Mr. Charles 

 Estcourt, F.C.S., a member of the Manchester Anglers' 

 Association, in a most interesting paper on the "Biblio- 

 graphy of Angling," read before the members, and pub- 

 lished in A nglers* Evenings, says that " the mother-country 

 possessed in 1861 no less than 470 works upon fish and 

 fishing " ; and that the various countries of the world 

 contributed to piscatory literature, as regards the number 

 of works, in the following order : Great Britain, Germany, 

 France, America, Italy, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, 

 and Norway. Also, with a view to show the literary position 

 of each of the more prominent angling countries, he gives 

 the following table as the result of an analysis of publishers' 

 lists and catalogues up to the month of September 1879 : 



Britain. Germany. France. America. 



Real angling works . . . 411 64 41 12 

 Natural history, which in- 1 ) 



eludes ichthyology, pisci-> 50 18 15 3 



culture, &c j 



Poetry and rhyme ... 37 .. .. 



Reports 59 5 4 



Total. .... 557 88 60 15 



In this list, under the name of each country, are included 

 only those books which are printed in the language of that 

 country. The grand total is 720, of which Great Britain 

 contributes more than three times as many as the other 

 countries put together ; thus testifying to the fact that she 

 is the home of, and great international instructress in, the 

 "gentle art." But after all, notwithstanding the above 



