The Angler's Souvenir (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Angler's Souvenir<br><br>There are three classes of men who read angling books. First, and least numerous, are those who care nothing for fishing, but are fond of the country, and like to read those descriptions of country life and scenes which abound in angling books more than others; next come those who are fond of fishing, and are so lucky as to have plenty of it. These, although they cannot keep their hands off a book on their favourite sport, if they see it, yet look down upon it with some feeling of superiority to it: they know more than it can teach them, and all their lives are passed in the enjoyment to satiety of what it describes as almost heavenly; and last, there is the large class for which books of this kind are chiefly written - the men who are sportsmen at heart, and passionately devoted to angling, yet have little time, and perhaps less opportunity, to indulge in the pursuit of that which would bring them happiness. Those men read with avidity whatever is written upon the gentle art, and so make up in fancy for the loss of the reality.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.