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children. I notice in my copy an advertisement of The 

 Angler : a Poem in Ten Cantos with Notes, &c, by T. P. 

 Lathy. This, it appears, was published in the same year, 

 and is remarkable as being a cool dishing-up, without 

 acknowledgment, of The Anglers, Eight Dialogues in Verse 

 (1758), just mentioned. And the best, or rather the 

 worst, of the joke' was that Lathy got 301. for his MS. 

 from an " enterprising publisher," who spent a large sum 

 in getting up the book in an expensive style before the 

 swindle was discovered. When the fraud was ascertained 

 " Piscator " was substituted for T. P. Lathy. 



Tbe Newcastle Fishers' Garlands are a series of Songs 

 or Poems chiefly in praise of the Coquet, and emanated 

 from the Waltonian Club established there about the year 

 1821-22. The custom seems to have been to publish a 

 ''Garland" annually, the first of which appeared in 1821 

 in form of a single-sheet broadside. It commences, " Auld 

 nature now revived seems," and was the joint production 

 of Robert Eoxby and Thomas Doubleday, who were also 

 the authors of most of the single " Garlands " to the year 

 1 832, when the series terminated. They were published 

 in a collected form in the year 1 836, with Boaz's Angler's 

 Progress, mentioned on the previous page, prefixed to them 

 as the Garland for 1820. In 1842 an attempt was made 

 to revive the series, but it failed after two or three years. 

 However, in the year just named the original publishers of 

 the " Garlands " brought out A Collection of Right Merrie 

 Garlands for North Country Anglers, adding to the 

 original a miscellaneous collection of songs, Doubleday 

 again being a contributor. The best of the Roxby and 

 Doubleday "Garlands" were republished in the Coquet- 

 dale Fishing Songs in 1852, and in 1864 Mr, Joseph 



