BTBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA, 99 



[ The steel engraving added as a frontispiece to the second and 

 subsequent editions, gives excellent likenesses of Mr. Francis and 

 his Gillie.] 



Sidney Bellew, a story. 2 vol. London, Tinsley. 



1870. 8. 



[Fishing passages occur in vol. i. pp. 69-80, 177-210, 258-70, 

 284-90; vol. ii, pp. 150-7. This story originally appeared in Bailys 

 Magazine^ 



By lake and river : an angler's rambles in the North 



of England and Scotland. London, Field Office, 1874. pp. 



xii. 415. 8. 



[ Has for its object to tell the angler " where he may obtain 

 fishing," and "what the fishing is like." Includes many of the 

 articles mentioned below which originally appeared in The Field.~\ 



Angling. London, Field Office, 1877. pp. viii. 132. 



4 plates. 8. 



Hot pot ; or miscellaneous papers. London, Field 



Office, 1880. pp. vi. 316. 8. 



[ Includes many papers originally published in The Field.] 



and Cooper (Alfred W.) Sporting sketches with 



pen and pencil. London, Field Office, 1878. pp. viii. 176. 



[ Contains 36 spirited sporting sketches by Mr. Cooper engraved 

 by Edmund Evans. We may particularly notice " Partridge shoot- 

 ing," where Mr. Irvine Cox (the I. E. B. C. of this list) and Mr. 

 Horace Cox (the publisher of the Field) are the gunners ; " Punt 

 fishing," a very good sketch of the old Hampton Court Weir ; 

 " Trouting," a view on the Anton with portraits of the artist and 

 Penton, the keeper ; " Pike fishing," in which figures Alfred 

 Jardine, the noted slayer of big pike, well known to Metropolitan 

 anglers ; " Snipe shooting," with sketches of Squire Fowle, tbe 

 proprietor of the Anton club water and Mr. Stagg ; " Reaching/* 

 where Mr. Francis himself is engaged at a noted roach hole on the 

 Crane ; " Salmon fishing," where he is again sketched,. Under very 

 trying circumstances, at the "Captain's throw" on the Erne, with 

 Johnny Lightly, a well known Gaffsman and great favourite at 

 Ballyshannon, in sympathetic attendance ; and " Grayling fishing," 

 which contains a most characteristic sketch of Mr. Aldam.] 



See FISHERIES and PISCICULTURE. 



[ Mr. Francis has also contributed to The Field, of which he is the 

 angling editor, the following (among other) papers : " The sports- 

 man in Ireland," in 18 numbers. 1857-8 ; "Ecloga piscatona," in 

 1 8 nos., 1858-9 ; " Summer sports in the Principality," in 9 nos., 

 1858-9; "Our salmon laws," in 6 nos., 1860; "A cruise in 

 Hampshire waters," in 8 nos., 1860; * "Northern notes," [ist. 

 series], in 15 nos., 1861-2 ; "A visit to the Welsh marches," in 

 6 nos., 1862; "Notes on a visit to Aldeburgh," 10 nos., 1862-3 ; 

 "A few days among the pike," 7 nos., 1865 ; *" Northern notes," 

 [2nd series], n nos., 1865; "Round Southsea," 13 nos., 1865; 

 "To Arcachon and back," [The "exposition," etc."], 6 nos., 1866; 



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