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of the men who have founded a philosophy of 
their own, and lived by it, under the sign of the 
fish. It is impossible even to mention all the 
worthies who have aided in making life happier, 
brighter, longer for themselves, and shorter for 
the fishes. There is Walton of blessed memory, 
with his discourse on fish and fishing; Richard 
Franck; John Dennys and his “Secrets of An- 
gling,” 1613; “Salmonia,” by Sir John Davy; 
“Chalk Stream Studies,” by Charles Kingsley ; 
Penn’s “Miseries of Fishing”; Robert Boyle’s 
“ Angling”; and a hundred more, down through 
the names of Andrew Lang, R. D. Blackmore, 
Thaddeus Norris, Frank Forrester, Robert B. 
Roosevelt, Dr. Yale, William C. Prime, Henry 
P. Wells, William Black, Henry Van Dyke, 
Dr. Henshall, Dr. Kenworthy, Fred Mather, 
and many more. The literature of the sub- 
ject is endless. Dr. Goode, in the prologue to 
his “Game Fishes,” says: “My own library of 
works on fish and fishing is far from complete, 
yet it includes over two thousand volumes and 
pamphlets, and my Bibliography of American 
Ichthyology, which I hope to publish within the 
next two years, comprises nearly ten thousand titles 
of books and papers. A large number of these 
