so many half apologies for saying so much about 

 angling, when, from the title of his "book, we are 

 led to expect that angling would form his principal 

 subject. One might suppose that his book was first 

 written as an account of a tour generally, and that the 

 portions which treat more expressly of angling, were 

 afterwards dove-tailed in. He, however, writes like one 

 who could make a long and clever cast, and who has 

 a heart to feel all the beauties which lie exposed 

 to the honest cultivator of the gentle art. His book 

 will bear reading a second time, even "by one who 

 may think him too partial to the " orange-fly," and a 

 "leetle" too ostentatious of chronicling his punctual 

 observance of the "Sabbath." Were it not for his 

 stating that he goes to church, I should "be some- 

 times inclined to suspect him to "be a hired distri- 

 butor of Tracts to some sectarian " Society for con- 

 verting the Heathen." Stephen Oliver, too, the 

 Yorkshireman, who makes the Border Counties, 

 Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, 

 the scene of his angling recollections, now and then 

 gives us a touch of the mock sublime, and writes 

 as if he had just been refreshing his memory from 

 Harvey's " Meditations in a Flower Q-arden." But fill 

 up a humper here's to them all, and success attend 

 them : The Angler in Ireland, Hansard, and Oliver, 

 light hearts and well-filled creels, with a good 

 account of their next piscatory campaigns ! 



SIMPSON. There is a clever little book, "Maxims 

 and Hints for an Angler," with illustrations by 

 Seymour, which you have not mentioned. 



