International Fisheries Exhibition LONDON, 1883 LITERATURE OF SEA AND RIVER FISHING BY J. J. MANLEY, M.A. 66 AUTHOR OF NOTES ON FISH AND FISHING," ETC., ETC. ·7-30 INTRODUCTION. The THOUGH this Handbook far exceeds in length all the other members of that large family to which the Fisheries Exhibition has given birth, it cannot pretend to traverse thoroughly all the ground indicated by its title. Literature of Sea and River Fishing is so extensive, that within the present compass only a comparatively brief survey can be essayed; and this must be mainly confined to the literary productions of our own country. Even the names of many English authors must necessarily be omitted, and the chief of them only find a place. Necessarily, too, the literature of Freshwater Fishing will take up by far the greater portion of the space at command, as books on Sea Fishing are limited in number, and generally speaking of a purely technical or commercial character. Criticism has not been indulged in to any great degree in the following pages, as the Handbook is principally intended to be a work of "reference," and something in the way of a "guide" to those who may desire to form a general idea of the extent and character of our angling literature. The quotations introduced may strike some readers, who are more or less familiar with the subject, as somewhat "hackneyed"; but necessarily they are so, because they |