52 NOTES ON FISH AND FISHING. 



We now come to the opening of the present century. 

 In 1800 we have Samuel Taylor's Angling in all its 

 Branches, reduced to a complete Science. Daniel's Rural 

 Sports appeared in two vols., and in three vols, in 1801 . 

 The Kentish Angler, which may still be consulted with 

 profit, was published in 1804, and in the same year Neil's 

 Complete Angler. The Angler's Manual, which treats of 

 every kind of angling, and " particularly of the manage- 

 ment of hand and rod in each method," has 1808 for its 

 date;, and Robert Salter, in 1811, published his Modem 

 Angler in a series of letters to a friend. The Angler's 

 Guide, by T. F. Salter (not to be confounded with Robert 

 Salter), was first published in 1814, and may still be called 

 a standard work, having reached nearly twelve editions. 

 The Young Angler's Guide is an abridgment of this book. 

 Gr. C. Bainbridge's Fly-fisher's Guide, illustrated by 

 coloured plates of about forty of the most useful flies, 

 accurately copied from nature, first appeared in 1816, and 

 has run through several editions. The Angler's Vade 

 Mecum, by W. Carroll, is dated 1818. In 1820 Salter's 

 Trotter's Guide made its appearance, and is still worth 

 perusal. The year 1828 is marked by Sir Humphry 

 Davy's Salmonia, reviewed in the Quarterly by (probably) 

 Sir Walter Scott, and in Blackwood by Professor Wilson ; 

 a delightful work, in the form of conversations, and likely 

 ever to remain as a chief favourite in the library of Angling 

 Literature. Christopher North, also, in this year appears 

 as an angling author, and an admirable one too, in Black- 

 wood's Magazine. Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History, 

 "with Maxims and Hints for an Angler," first published 

 in 1832, is another book which will always find a place on 

 the angler's shelves. The Driffield Angler, by Mackin- 



