70 NOTES ON PISH AND PISHING. 



reminiscences of a visit I recently paid him, and of the 

 couple of hours I spent in his little room, lined on all 

 four sides, from floor to ceiling, with the " Literature of 

 Fishing " and piscatorial curiosities. 



There are in existence something like 600 books on 

 angling, and as these are for the most part English, I 

 have not thought it worth while to refer to foreign authors. 

 But though in our own " Literature of Fishing," books of 

 all kinds are so numerous, yet the cry is " still they 

 come" — and Welcome ! 



My last remark is in the way of a suggestion. It is to 

 the effect that though the Field and Land and Water (in 

 the great ocean of which latter the Fisherman's Magazine 

 "lost itself" at the close of the year 1865) and the 

 Country, always contain much pleasant and instructive 

 piscatorial reading, some Angler's Organ, more or less of 

 an exclusive character, is wanted as a medium for com- 

 munication between fishermen, and as current record of 

 miscellaneous matters connected with Fish and Fishing. 



Note. — Since the above was put into type The Fishing Gazette — a 

 weekly — has made its appearance. As it has paid me the compliment 

 of reprinting verbatim several long articles of mine, without a word 

 of acknowledgment of the source from which they were taken, how 

 can I do otherwise than -wish it success p 1 



