STANDARD BOOKS 
PUBLISHED BY 
PHILIP ALLAN & CO. 
Demy 8vo. (9x5f). 12/6 net. (Also a few copies on hand-made 
paper, signed and numbered by the Author, 2 2/6 each.) 
A History of Fly Fishing for Trout, 
By JOHN WALLER HILLS, M.P. 
Although many pens have occupied themselves with the history and 
antiquities of our angling literature, this is the first book that attempts 
to trace the art of Fly Fishing from its beginning. The Author has 
succeeded in identifying almost all of the artificial flies mentioned by our 
earliest writers, and brings the history of fly-rods, lines and flies down to 
our own times. But it is something more than a mere chronicle, for the 
Author wields a gifted pen, and from first page to last the book is a most 
entertaining one. 
“ ‘ No sport has a finer literature than Fishing,’ says Major Hills. His History 
of Fly Fishing is worthy of this tradition. Not only has he an intimate knowledge 
of his subject, based on the scholarly study of the authorities, and a practical 
knowledge of the craft, but he writes with grace and elegance ."—The Scotsman. 
Foolscap 8vo. (6§x4^). 6/6 net. (Also a few copies on hand¬ 
made paper, signed by the Author, 1 guinea each). 
An Angler’s Garland, 
of Fields, Rivers, and other Country Contentments, 
By ERIC PARKER 
(Author of “ Eton in the ’Eighties,” “ Highways and Byways in Surrey,” 
etc.) 
In this volume Mr. Parker has brought together, from the whole range 
of English ‘ open air * literature, the happiest descriptions of the various 
moods and scenes, incidents and reflections, that anglers, from old Izaak 
to the urchin with the bent pin, have known. Not only to all fishermen 
but to all who take pleasure in 1 country delights ’ this book will be a 
welcome companion. In June it will intensify the glory of a country 
holiday, and in November it will make ‘ a river flow on through the Vale 
of Cheapside.’ 
“ One of the most treasurable little volumes which have ever been offered for 
the delectation of the brotherhood ."—The Field. 
“ It is all so persuasively good ... it should go in the pocket to balance the 
fly-book, to be read in the heather to the drumming of the fall, or by the fire in 
the inn parlour when the day is done ."—The Times. 
