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Scrope, another excellent and spirited writer, though 

 taking a more limited range, makes his bow, in 1843, with 

 his Days and Nights of Salmon- Fishing in the Tweed. The 

 book, even apart from its angling interest, is well worth 

 reading as a bright and elegant literary composition, in 

 which quaint legend and humorous anecdote were never 

 better told. An enthusiastic angler-author, though he has 

 unbounded admiration for many angling works, says that 

 " t/ie book of angling has not yet been written," adding, 

 that "to write it would indeed require more extensive 

 practice than is often attained, or perhaps even desirable, 

 and a singular combination of endowments. We shall 

 hardly see the gifts of Professor Wilson, Sir Humphrey 

 Davy, and Mr. Scrope united in one man ; and yet, I con- 

 fess, little short of such a union would complete my ideal 

 of the author." 



Blakey " Palmer Hackle, Esq." began publishing his 

 books in 1846, but they hardly rise above the level of 

 mediocrity, though they contain some useful topographical 

 information as to fishing waters in England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland. Edward Fitzgibbon, so long well known and appre- 

 ciated in the angling columns of BelFs Life as " Ephemera," 

 published his Handbook of Angling in 1847, and his Book of 

 the Salmon three years afterwards. Though many anglers 

 have questioned the correctness of some of his views, both 

 books will hold their own, and will repay careful study, the 

 former especially by the humbler class of anglers who have 

 not salmon and trout fishing at their command. 



The Rev. Henry Newland, a " Tractarian " leader in the 

 prae-Ritualistic days, and as able a wielder of the fly-rod 

 as of the pen, published The Er.ne ; its Legends and its Fly- 

 fishing, in 1851, and three years later Forest Scenes in 

 Norway and Sweden ; being extracts from the Journal of a 



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