[Footnote 192: "Let me take this opportunity of recommending the amiable and venerable ISAAC WALTON'S _Complete Angler_: a work the most singular of its kind, breathing the very spirit of contentment, of quiet, and unaffected philanthrophy, and interspersed with some beautiful relics of poetry, old songs, and ballads." So speaks the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles, in his edition of _Pope's Works_, vol i., p. 135. To which I add--Let me take this opportunity of recommending Mr. Bagster's very beautiful and creditable reprint of Sir John Hawkin's edition of Walton's amusing little book. The plates in it are as true as they are brilliant: and the bibliomaniac may gratify his appetite, however voracious, by having copies of it upon paper of all sizes. Mr. Bagster has also very recently published an exquisite facsimile of the original edition of old Isaac. Perhaps I ought not to call it a fac-simile, for it is, in many respects, more beautifully executed.] [Footnote 193: The reader may see all this, and much more, dressed in its ancient orthographic garb, in a proheme to the first edition of the merry art of fishing, extracted by Herbert in his first volume, p. 131. I have said the "_merry_," and not the "_contemplative_," art of fishing--because we are informed that "Yf the angler take fyshe, surely thenne is there noo man _merier_ than he is in his spyryte!!" Yet Isaac Walton called this art, "The _Contemplative_ Man's Recreation." But a _book-fisherman_, like myself, must not presume to reconcile such great and contradictory authorities.] "But see--the hammer is vibrating, at an angle of twenty-two and a half, over a large paper priced catalogue of Major Pearson's books!--Who is the lucky purchaser?