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Guide to the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk is issued ; and 

 also the annual East Anglian Handbook, in which articles 

 on fish and fishing have for the last quarter of a century 

 found a place. A selection of these, bound in one volume, 

 was exhibited by Mr. P. Soman, the proprietor of the 

 Argus, at the Fisheries Exhibition. 



The "Magazines" of the period by no means neglect 

 angling. Blackwood did no little to establish its reputation 

 years ago by its angling articles from the pens of Professor 

 Wilson, and other eminent literary anglers. Fraser, also, 

 has long made angling articles a feature in its pages ; and 

 even the more sober " Quarterlies " minister to the prevail- 

 ing taste. The " Monthlies " of many kinds also follow suit, 

 such as the Corn/till, Temple Bar, &c. ; while the evergreen 

 Baily, and the promising young Squire (the latter under 

 the able conductorship of Mr. Morgan Evans), minister 

 regularly and pleasantly to piscatorial wants. The Sporting 

 Mirror angles for readers. Scribner's Monthly, now The 

 Century (New York), sends- us an abundant supply of 

 admirable angling articles from the other side of the 

 " herring-pond." 



What may be termed " Guide-Books " have their place, 

 though a humble -one, in angling literature; and very useful 

 publications they are. Among them may be mentioned 

 the A nglers Diary, issued annually from the Field Office, 

 which gives in alphabetical order a list of all the fishing 

 waters in the United Kingdom, with nearest railway 

 stations, and a variety of information in reference to " close " 

 seasons, licences, &c. Mr. Greville Fennell's The Rail and 

 the Rod has already been mentioned in Chapter VI., as has 

 also Mr. Wheeldon's Angling Resorts near London. Both 

 books contain most useful " guidal " information, as well as 

 being worthy of being ranked as books on angling from a 



