WILLIAM SATCHELL'S 

 decent iSublications. 



19, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 

 Third Edition. 



MY LIFE AS AN ANGLER. 

 BY WILLIAM HENDERSON, 



Author of "The Folk-lore of the Northern Counties." 



Crown 8vo, with Autotype portrait and twelve full-page illustrations 

 engraved by Edmund Evans. Cloth, top edge gilt. Price 7s. 6d. 



N.B. A few copies remain of First Edition, with 68 illustrations, 

 price 315. 6d.; in large paper, price 843. 



" Clear in style and free from the vulgarity, slang and trite quotations 

 which disfigure so many modern angling books, these reminiscences will 

 be read with pleasure by all who enjoy country life and admire the old- 

 fashioned virtues of diligence and contentment, nor does it require an 

 angler to relish the many anecdotes of Northern life and natural history 

 which the writer intersperses among the fishing experiences. 

 Nothing that is beautiful and of good report appears to escape him when 

 he wanders, rod in hand, by the riverside, and it is this pleasant, natural 

 mode of interesting his readers which will endear the book to a wide 

 circle of readers. . . . The contents and above all the tone of this 

 book, by far the most important contribution of late years to angling 

 literature, deserve much commendation. The publishers are entitled to 

 credit for the excellent printing and the stout paper and the dainty 

 woodcuts which adorn the volume. . . . There is no modern book 

 about angling which could be put in the hands of either novice or 

 veteran with greater chances of charming both alike. It holds a copious 

 store of information and anecdote, and reflects in every page its author's 

 kind heart, ripe experience and soundness of judgment. Like Auceps, 

 in a book which Mr. Henderson, in common with all anglers, must 

 reverence, we close this delightful volume with the words, " I assure 

 you, Mr. Piscator, I now part with you full of good thoughts, not only 

 of yourself, but your recreation." Athenceum. 



We defy anyone blessed with a taste for fly-fishing to take it up with- 

 out both pleasure and profit ; while all who love English country life 

 will find much to delight them in anecdotes of the animals which most 

 frequently cross the angler's path, and reminiscences of the beautiful 

 scenes where the author has rambled. Its tone of reverent affection for 

 nature as the handiwork of a Creator and for revealed religion, is worthy 

 of all praise. . . . Undoubtedly the best book on angling which has 

 appeared for some years,- Academy. 



The veteran fisherman has a kindly sense of the charms of river 

 scenery, and a pleasant vein of familiarity in discoursing of old friends 

 and early days which not anglers only will enjoy ...The sweet feeling 



