the ' Compleat Angler.' 



63 



by a certain c Alfred d'Angleville,' who accompanies it with 

 the collateral afiurance that Walton's work is quite unworthy 

 of French readers, and will be very properly replaced by 

 de Mafias' performances. 



In i860, we have to notice Mefirs. Nattali and Bond's re- 

 ifiue of Pickering's edition of 1836, in two volumes, imperial 

 octavo, at a reduced price, and with fundry other reductions 

 confequent thereupon; inferior paper, for inftance, worn plates, 

 and a general decadence of fbyle. 



The text remains unaltered, even one or two notable 

 blunders being left uncorrected. 



Finally, in 1863, we take note of a pocket edition by 

 Mefirs. Bell and Daldy ; the fimple text alone, but praife- 

 worthy for its faithfulnefs and the beauty of its typography. 



Here our tafk ends — the ultimate mileftone on the long 

 road of more than two hundred years being reached at kit. 

 Through our window, as we write thefe clofing lines, ftreams 

 cheerily, (and with a fhimmer of young leaves and buzzing of 

 infect wings,) the May funfhine — that funfhine that, of yore, 

 gladdened Pifcator on his way through the Lea-fide meadows to 

 his fport at matin-fong, and that broods, we are fain to believe, 

 with a foftened radiance now, on his honoured grave in the 

 grey pile of Winchester. Peace be to his allies .'—for his fame 

 we have no fear ; the bygone centuries have given their con- 

 fecration to his work, the centuries to come will ratify that 



1 " Second Edition. London: Nattali and Bond, i860." 



2 " London : Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet Street; and Sampfon Low, Son, 

 and Co., 47, Ludgate Hill. 1863." 304 pages. 



Nattali and 

 Bond's re-iffue 

 of Pickering's 

 Edition of 1836, 

 1860.' 



Bell and Daldy's 

 Edition, j86?. 2 



