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The Chronicle of 



American reprint, publifhed at New York in 1847, under 

 the editorial aufpices of Dr. G. W. Bethune. Could we admit 

 the necerTity of erudition in this cafe, we mould be difpofed to 

 aflign to Dr. Bethune's verfion a foremoft rank in the anno- 

 tated feries. 



The wifdom he brings to bear on his tafk is of the bene- 

 volent order, cordial, reverent, and fympathetic, and his 

 criticifm has nothing in common either with the flippant or 

 dry-as-duft fchool. For the lover of angling-books, and for 

 the collector efpecially, there is no edition fo ufeful as this. 

 In his " Bibliographical Preface," the editor gives an extended 

 catalogue raifonne of the earlier literature of the fport, and in 

 the Appendix, we have his " Waltonian Library," or lift of 

 angling books, including fome three hundred works, beftdes 

 many on ichthyology. 1 He gives us alfo an enlarged lift of 



Clear Stream. By Charles Cotton. With copious Notes, for the moil part 

 original, a bibliographical Preface, giving an Account of Fifhing and Fifhing- 

 Books, from the earlieft Antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton 

 and his writings, by the American Editor. To which is added an Appendix, 

 including illuftrative Ballads, Mufic, Papers on American Fifhing, and the 

 moft complete Catalogue of Books on Angling, &c, ever printed. Alfo a 

 general Index to the whole work. New York: John Wiley, 1 67, Broad- 

 way. 1847." 



Part 1., 1 1 2 pages, preliminary ; 249 pages. Part 11., 29 pages preliminary ; 

 210 pages. Some copies were printed on large paper. 



Prince, l/. 5 s., large paper. Sotheby's, with duplicate fet of woodcuts, 15s. 

 Puttick, alfo with duplicate fet, lzs. 



1 In Mr. J. Wynne's " Private Libraries of New York," we find the 

 following mention of Dr. Bethune and his Angling Library: — 



" During the darker feafons of the year, when forbidden the a£tual ufe of his 

 rod, our friend has occupied himfelf with excurfions through fale catalogues, 



