THE 



ANGLER-NATURALIST, 



PAET I. 



CHAPTER I. 

 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



THE age in which we live is emphatically one of use. 

 Utilitarianism, in its best as well as in its worst sense, has 

 struck deep root into the national soil, and in nothing is 

 more strongly shown than in the prevailing character of 

 our literature, in which, if we except the standard three - 

 volumed novel, fiction may be said to have given place 

 to fact, poetry to prose, and the belles lettres generally 

 to works of a quasi moral, political, or scientific character. 

 Amongst the latter, essays on Natural History more or 

 less popularized have been conspicuous for the very favour- 

 able reception accorded them by the public ; but of these 

 none have been specially devoted to Ichthyology *, whilst 

 * From the Greek, ichthys, a fish, and logos, a treatise. 



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