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the information of those who may feel inclined 

 to help us, that the cost of such a statue as 

 that of Izaak Walton with its due Canopy 

 and Pedestal will certainly not exceed ;^8o 

 all told. It will be a matter of high gratifica- 

 tion to us if we are able to place among our 

 noble company of Winchester worthies the 

 forms of these two honoured kinsmen, men 

 congenial in the purity and simplicity of their 

 characters, unrivalled masters of the sterling 

 English which has given our literature so high 

 a place in the world — the one as the composer 

 of the two hymns which, for all English speak- 

 ing people, sanctify the sun rising and the 

 dying day ; the other, author of ' The Com- 

 plete Angler,' one of the two or three books 

 which bear perpetual, and eloquent witness — 

 to the healthy English love of a country life. 

 " I am, etc., 



" G. W. KiTCHIN. 

 ' The Deanery, Winchester, 

 '' Oct. 2, 1886." 



The Editor adds — 



" It is only necessary to add — and I do so 

 with great pleasure and satisfaction — that the 



