The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-28

chapter on fishing, printed by Wynkyn
de Worde in 1896, little more than 20
years after Caxton first set up his
press at Westminster, remains in ex-
istence, but there are several excel
lent reprints, the best of which. now
very rare, is the one reprinted in 1910,
OF which the Harvard collection has a
we'll preserved eXempler. Quaint as
this sporting treatise may be, it is still
not so interesting as the authoress.
who, from her unique place in the an
nails of English sport, has won the til
tie of the Diana of the English" She
was Juliana Barnes or Berners, prior
ess of SopWell and true lover of the
chase and the delights of the rod and
line.
Says Holinshed, the old English his
torian: 'She was a gentlewoman who
endured with eXcellente CITIES of body
and mind wrote certaine treatises of
hawking, hunting and fysheing, de-
lighting greatly hirselfe in chose ex-
ercises.' A great believer in the
wholesome and innocent sports of the
field and country, she advocated them
as an offset against idleness and vi
cious living. She preferred angling
above all other pastimes and finishes
her "Treatyse of Fysshynge" with
the remark, Thus have | proved il,
my intent, that the disport and game
of angling is the very means and
cause that induceth a man into a NOR
ry spirit, which after the doctrine If
solomon and of physic, maGcth a flow
erlng age and long. And therefore to
all you that be virtuous, gentle and
freeborn, 1 write and make this sim
pie treatise, following by which va
may have the full craft of angling to
disport you at your last, TO the ir,Tent
that your age may the more flower
and the more longer to endure" "Suc-
cess with the line" says Juliana in an
other place, lis spoiled by twelve ma
mere of ympedyments whyche causa q
man to take moo fyshe"-namely. -
badly made harness; 2 bad baits'
), angling at the wrong time; 4 fish
strayed away; 5, water thick; 6. water
too cold; Z, wether too hot; s If II
rain; 8, if hail or snow fall: 10. if there
be a tempest; IL, if there be great
wynd; u, if the wynd be east" Here
was surely plain and canny advice
book by Leonard MascaI first
published in 1890, is. acknowledgements
the next in interest of the Harvard col,
lection. This, too. is a reprint II is
full of quaint and curious directions
TO those who aspire to skill in the flsb-
er craft one section of il Is devot
ed to a discussion Of traps and snares
tNA VIC AHBAulF bA the aromatic stQla-
cat Here Is its recipe for catpbino
eels. "Ye shall make long fageots ~
hay wrapt about willow boughs which
ye shall put IN the midst OF your hot'
tie on faggOt Of hay and then sinlo
il IN the deepe by the banke and "a
let u lie two or three dayes and tle
a ~ythe or rope thereunfo that We NAV
soone plucke IL up on land 0r boata
and 50 ye shall take yeeles fheraia
good store, ln cold weather very god .
Eminent also On the early Literature
~ the plscatorial realm. was ~
Depnys, who wrote the "secrets ~
Angling" poem IN three books q'tt
FIRST edition appeared in 1914 ans ~
0ftfn been called the raresf volume -
English literature The autaes M
the merit ~ subflefy in rhyme slsvs.
tlnh ~ thought anc equality ~ n.
forest throughout be work aanae,.
iks eApsetts Graeffllly sa.q eiasFfalasIy