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A BOOK ON ANGLING 
A BOOK ON ANGLING. By Fran- 
cis Francis. Published by J. B. 
Lippincott Company, Philadel- 
phia. Large 12-mo., 364 pp., net $4.50. 
This is a new presentation of Fran- 
cis’ cyclopedic work which first ap- 
peared in 1867. It deals most thorough- 
ly with all phases of fresh-water fish- 
ing known to the British angling fra- 
ternity at the time when it was written. 
Francis knew nothing, for example, 
about the charm of a split-bamboo rod, 
and he dismisses the subject of dry-fly 
fishing with a few casual paragraphs. 
To be sure he does make note — 
one of the early references in angling 
literature to the split-cane implement — • 
of an Aldred rod (p. 192) : “One of the 
glued triangular spliced rods, that is, 
the joints consist of three long pieces of 
bamboo cane, carefully fitted, glued up, 
and tied every inch and a half.” This 
was not, however, his choice; and no 
wonder it proved “rather tiring to the 
arm, being a little top-heavy, and lack- 
ing the free spring of the last two,” for 
its length was 12 ft. 4% in. and it 
weighed 13% ounces. The “last two’.’ 
— hickory rods, made by Cheek and 
Bownes respectively — weighed one over 
14 and the other over 13 ounces. 
But the editor of this present edi- 
tion, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bt., who 
also contributes an interesting introduc- 
tion, has sought to modernize Francis’ 
text here and there by the addition of 
ootnotes. As a young man he was priv- 
ileged one day, a half-century ago, to 
open “a parcel containing A Book on 
Angling, a gift from the author.” 
The book is well printed and beauti- 
fully illustrated, many plates being in 
color. 
No collector of angling works can dis- 
pense with Francis’ book; and this is 
far from saying that even in the un- 
emandated original text the work ceases 
to be of practical value to the modern 
American angler. English angling 
■ractice represents the crystallized opin- 
ion of centuries of careful investigation 
and experiment, while in this country 
the acme of the art, fly-fishing, is com- 
paratively of but yesterday. So it is 
that any list of artificial trout-flies rep- 
resentative of those today most widely 
used and most generally successful on 
American waters, aside from the more 
coarsely dressed American fanciful pat- 
terns, must depend upon English pat- 
terns that represent British natural in- 
sects; and such will continue to be the 
case until such time as sufficient work 
shall have been done here, along the line 
of Mr. Rhead’s studies of our native 
trout-stream entomology, to justify the 
systematization of American experience 
and deductions into a more distinctive, 
scientific practice by the American fly- 
fisherman. Now the chief authorities 
for these patterns of British insects are 
Theakstone, Ronalds, Francis, and Hal- 
ford. 
It is hard to see how Francis’ Chap- 
ter V, on artificial-fly fishing for trout, 
can ever signally be improved upon, so 
thoroughly does it deal with the essen- 
tials of this art. 
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