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Urquhart, of Cromerty. It contains abundant proof, however, that 

 in the Academy of Angling its author had taken a high degree, and 

 that he could use the rod, on an occasion, for other whippings than 

 those of pool and stream, his flagellation of " honest Izaac " gives 

 smarting evidence. This latter insult no contemporary voice was 

 raised to vindicate, but Time, with its "revenges," has wrought out 

 an ample and emphatic atonement. 



Franck is the first English writer on angling who describes that 

 mystical fish, the burbolt (see page 279 of the original work, and 

 330 of the reprint). "To search for him in Trent," says he 

 " striving against a stream, is like to Queen Elizabeth's Scogen, that 

 at the sun's meridian (with a candle and lanthorn), sought up and 

 down for an honest man." 



There is also an interesting mention, in " Northern Memoirs," 

 page 37 of the preface, and again page 177 of the work (reprint), of 

 three noted anglers of the time, Merrils, Fawlkner and Owldham, 

 whom some bibliophiles suppose to have written three several 

 angling works, since lost to the world. Others, on the contrary, 

 incline to the belief, that, in the passages in question, Franck merely 

 intended to set up an antithesis (touching the comparative merits of 

 tuition) between the speculative book-writing angler, on the one 

 hand, and the practical, experienced wielder of the rod, innocent of 

 ink, but well up to all the devices of the sport, on the other. He 

 speaks of "collections and manuals," it is true, but there is nothing 

 to show that these were more than the occasional memoranda which 

 that class of men are in the habit of jotting down, for their private 

 guidance, while of Owldham he says distinctly, that his "Collec- 

 tions and experiments were lost with himself." 



A notice of the work will be found in the " Retrospective 

 Review," vol. viii. pp. 170-194, and also in the "Censura Literaria." 

 The extreme rarity of the original edition is somewhat exaggerated. 

 We have had knowledge of five or six copies, including those in the 

 Grenville (British Museum) and Denison collections. Valentine's 

 ji I2s.; Prince's 2 33.] 



Fraser's Magazine for town and country. In progress. 

 London, 1830, etc. 8. 



[ Contains many excellent articles on angling subjects by writers 

 of repute.] 



Fraser (John). A handbook for travellers in Ireland,... also... 

 information for anglers. Dublin, Curry, 1844. 8.; Dublin, 

 McGlashan, 1849. 8 - 



Freeman (Gage Earle) and Salvin (Fr. H.) Falconry, its 

 claims, history and practice. To which are added remarks on 

 training the otter and cormorant, by Captain Salvin. London, 

 Longman, 1859. 8. 



[ "Fishing with cormorants/' pp. 327-49 ; "Fishing with otters, 1 ' 

 pp. 350-2.] 



Fric (Ant.) Die Fluss-fischerei in Bohmen und ihre Bezie- 

 hungen zur kiinstlichen Fischzucht und zur Industrie. Prag, 

 Rziwnatz, (n. d.) 4^. 



