the ' Compleat Angler.' 



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its more metropolitan pofition, would feem to devolve the 

 right of initiative. 



By way of amendment we would fuggeft that fuch libraries 

 mould be cofmopolite in their character, and not exclusively 

 Britifh, as collections of the kind have hitherto been. So 

 long as the Englifh angler plied his craft within his infular 

 limits alone, his fartheft-falling line never reaching beyond 

 John o' Groat's houfe on the one hand, and the Land's End 

 on the other, it was natural he mould be indifferent as to what 

 foreign profefTors might have to fay of his fport. But now, 

 that he may cry with UlyfTes, 



" I have become a name, 

 For always roaming with a hungry heart " — 



Now that Ultima Thule knows the ripple of his fly on its 

 boreal waters — that the banks of Pyrenean Streams keep the 

 track of his footprints — that Superior and Erie and Ontario 

 have yielded to his fkill their gigantic broods — that India and 

 Africa have paid him tribute, and that, at laSt, even Australian 

 rivers are likely to be peopled by his instrumentality — now, in 

 fhort, that he has <f whipped all creation," though not in the 

 bellicofe American fenfe, furely it is time that his library 

 doors mould be opened to the contributions of other lands 

 and other languages. 



Thefe contributions, as far as our inquisition has gone, form 

 barely one-third of the whole and are distributed thus : Ame- 

 rica fupplies fourteen works, Denmark two, Holland nineteen, 

 France ninety-five, Germany a hundred and fourteen, Italy 



