How to Do It by Edward Everett Hale
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literature." See Noctes AmbrosianA|.
H. W. Beecher, N. Y. Independent, 1853. In the New York edition of Walton and Cotton is a list of books on Angling, which Blakey enlarges. His list contains four hundred and fifty titles. American Angler's Guide, 1849. Storer, D. H., Fishes of Massachusetts. Storer, D. H., Fishes of N. America. Girard, Fresh-Water Fishes of N. America (Smithsonian Contributions, Vol. III.). Richard Penn, Maxims and Hints for an Angler, and Miseries of Fishing, 1839. James Wilson, The Rod and the Gun, 1840. Herbert, Frank Forester's Fish of N. America. Yarrel's British Fishes. The same, on the Growth of Salmon. Boy's Own Book. Please to observe, now, that nobody is obliged to read up all the authorities that we have lighted on. What the lists mean is this;--that you have made the inquiry for "a sermon book and another book," and you are now thus far on your way toward an answer. These are the first answers that come to hand. Work on and you will have more. I cannot pretend to give that answer for any one of you,--far less for all those who would be likely to be interested in all the subjects which are named here. But with such clews as are given above, you will soon find your ways into the different parts that interest you of our great picnic grove. Remember, however, that there are no royal roads. The difference between a well-educated person and one not well educated is, that the first knows |
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