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pen, as witnesses current literature ; and it may chance 

 that my " Notes" may be handed to such an one for criti- 

 cism; and I have noticed that angling authors, though 

 they are credited and credit themselves with the utmost 

 amount of amiability, are particularly " rough" on their 

 fellows, when they come into literary contact. 



In the way of a very compendious guide to all waters 

 within a "reasonable distance" of London, the angler 

 cannot do better than consult The Rail and the Rod, by 



Greville F , the well-known piscatorial contributor to 



The Field, and accomplished fisherman, who has issued 

 two very useful volumes, in which he tells us almost all 

 that an angler can wish to know of rivers, lakes, &c, to be 

 reached by the Great Western, Great Eastern, Great 

 Northern, South- Western, London and North-Western, 

 and Midland Railways, combined with a mass of most 

 interesting local information of a general character. 



The Angler's Diary, published annually, is also a little 

 work of reference to " Angling Stations" for the pocket, 

 which may be profitably consulted. 



But before concluding this part of my subject I must 

 mention a work of a perfectly unique character, published 

 last year by Mr. J. B. Day, of Savoy Street, Strand. It was 

 edited by Mr. W. H. Aldam, at the request of many mem- 

 bers of the Derwent Fly-fishing Club, and the text is a print 

 from an old MS. never before published, written about a 

 century ago by an old man well known as a first-rate fly- 

 fisher in Derbyshire. It is a quaint treatise on Flees and the 

 Art ofArtyfichall Flee Making, and printed in rare old large 

 type with spacious margin. But the unique feature of the 

 publication is the introduction of thick cardboard leaves, 

 containing in sunk pannels pattern flies and the materials 



