named body. My opportunities for fishing are abundant enough, but, between law and literature, I haven't the time to avail myself of them. Therefore I read what others write, and I write myself for the sake of others. Yet, as I write of the days when I had the time and used it well, the longing to be off and away once more to river and lake comes with a painful force, and I strive to snatch an hour or two for its gratification. But

a fisherman, if he is to be successful should be able to pick his days, and if he cannot do so, the chances are that the days on which he is compelled to fish, if he fishes at all, are unsuitable, and he is unsuccessful. At least that is my experience. Therefore I am again driven back to my books for consolation. Is this not the experience of many?

All this is meant to show that a demand has arisen and continues for angling-books, and that there is ample excuse for adding more to their already great number.

Some years ago there appeared an excellent book, with very beautiful steel engravings, called "The Angler's Souvenir," by "P. Fisher, Esq., assisted by several eminent piscatory characters." The earlier part of the present book consists of a portion of the original Angler's Souvenir. The practical matter of the Souvenir has been omitted, because the practice of angling has materially improved since it was written, and its instructions would be of no value to modern anglers. The descriptive part of it,