200 GLAUCUS ; OE, 



and every one of tlie party, I will warrant, will find 

 his fellow-correspondents (perhaps previously un- 

 known to him) men worth knowing ; not, it may be, 

 of the meditative and half-saintly type of dear old 

 Izaak Walton (w^ho, after all, was no fly-fisher, but 

 a sedentary "popjoy," guilty of float and worm), 

 but rather, like his fly-fishing disciple Cotton, good 

 fellows and men of the world, and, perhaps, some- 

 thing better over and aboA^e. 



The suggestion has been made. Will it ever be 

 taken up, and a "ISTaiad Club" formed, for the 

 combination of sport and science ? 



And, now, how can this desultory little treatise 

 end more usefully than in recommending a few 

 books on Natural History, fit for the use of young 

 people ; and fit to serve as introductions to such 

 deeper and larger works as Yarrell's " Birds and 

 Fishes," Bell's " Quadrupeds " and " Crustacea," 

 Forbes and Hanley's "Mollusca," Owen's "Fossil 

 Mammals and Birds," and a host of other admirable 

 works ? Not that this list will contain all the best ; 

 but simply the best of which the writer knows ; let, 



