the ' Compleat Angler.' 



+7 



The above caftigation is not a whit too fevere, and we 

 marvel that no contemporary critic was found to punifh with 

 the knout this wretched EfTay, which is not only fawning and 

 fervile in its tone throughout, but has a click of the counter, 

 befides, that is efpecially diftafteful. 1 



So great was the fuccefs of Major's publication, that a frefh 

 ifTue was called for, in the following year, and a new fet of 

 plates, ftill from Wale, given with it. 3 It was diftinguifhed 



Major's Second 

 Edition, i 824. 2 



1 To the edition of 1844, Major adds certain notes, which we quote here, 

 that our readers may have the meafure of the man's fatuity. 



" On the appearance of the firft Edition in 1823, Mr. D'lfraeli, who 

 fomewhere fpeaks of the Doric fweetnefs of Izaak Walton, obferved to me — 

 ' One often fees a pretty book which is interefting to a particular clafs ; but you 

 have hit on a work that pleafes everybody !' And Mr. Alexander Chalmers 

 was pleafed to fay that I had given quite a new tone to the fubjedt, and had 

 * Waltonized the land !' 



" For my own part I can only fay that I had long been afking myfelf in 

 the language of Abraham Cowley, ' What fhall I do to be for ever known ?' 

 And my good Genius whifpered, ' Give your days and nights to emblazon 

 the worth of Izaak Walton.''' 



It is to be regretted that this good Genius did not, at the fame time, point 

 a profpeftive veto in the direction of the Introductory Effay. 



In another note he fays : " The bantling is, in truth, my own, but its 

 fponfors are innumerable ; one kind patron, a gentleman of fortune, ufed to fay 

 to his friends, • You muft have this edition, for / have a fhare in it !' And a 

 total ftranger once affured me that he had beftowed no lefs than fix guineas on 

 the binding of the work, as a fpecimen of the fkill of Charles Lewis !" 



2 Title the fame as in the foregoing. Preliminary pages the fame. Body 

 of the work, 416 pages, the extenfion being in the notes. Price as before. 



Cotton, 175-6, 2/. gs., and \l. is. Lowndes, 726, 6s. 6d. Walfh, 81, 

 (foiled) 14J. 



3 The old plates " rebit" fays Bohn's Lowndes (1864), but a difference of 



