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particularly for Grayling or Umber, the second edition, I 

 believe, coming out almost immediately after the first. 

 A little book, published at South Molton, in Devonshire, 

 in 1868, deserves special mention. It is, The Art of f rout- 

 fishing in Rapid Streams, in reference mainly to North 

 Devon. It is, however, applicable more or less to rapid 

 streams everywhere, and though rather wordy and " re- 

 petitional," should be read by all who have the good 

 fortune to get hold of a copy. 



I am now getting near a still more modern period. I 

 may call it the " modern" modern ; and consequently, in 

 mentioning authors, I should be getting on still more 

 delicate ground than any I have yet trodden. I shall 

 therefore content myself with saying, in reference to books 

 on the Art of Angling, with all the necessary instructions 

 both on fly-fishing (trout and salmon) and bottom-fishing, 

 as well as trolling, that would-be anglers cannot do better, 

 in the way of reading up a subject, than consult the various 

 works of Mr. Francis Francis and Mr. H. Cholmondeley 

 Pennell, gentlemen who have had a wide practical experi- 

 ence in almost all the waters of the United Kingdom, and 

 in every kind of fishing. They are both too as well skilled 

 m the use of the pen as the rod. I would also mention 

 the little but excellent Modem Angler, by " Otter," (Mr. 

 Alfred, of Moorgate Street). Among recent works of 

 a pastoral and idyllic character, combined with that of 

 angling proper, I know none for really pleasant reading 

 to be compared to Angling Idylls, by G. 0. Davies, and 

 Waterside Sketches, by W. Senior (" Eed Spinner") . Per- 

 haps I should be well advised to mention in commendatory 

 terms some other " modern" modern authors, as I know 

 that more than one man of the angle is also a man of the 



