PREFATORY NOTE. xiii 
angling Editor of the /%e/d, Mr. Christopher Davies, 
Mr. R. B. Marston, Editor of the Fishing Gazette, and 
Mr. Thomas Andrews, I am also under the greatest 
obligation for the very charming and interesting con- 
tributions to which their names are attached. I only 
regret that circumstances should have unavoidably 
deprived my readers of a promised contribution on 
salmon fishing from the pen of His Grace the Duke 
of Beaufort, which would have been warmly welcomed 
by all fly-fishers. 
For the rest, it has been my aim to make these 
volumes as practical as possible ; and if the exigencies 
of this 7é/e have involved a certain amount of space 
being devoted to more or less technical matters— which, 
however necessary and important, are, perhaps, less 
attractive to the general angling public than to the 
enthusiastic student—I hope the other part of the pro- 
gramme laid down by the Editor has not been over- 
looked, and that the following pages will be found to 
be sufficiently diversified with anecdotes and incidents 
of sport to redeem them from being hopelessly ‘ dull 
reading.’ 
H. C.-P. 
