will be found in Mr Marston's Complete Angler, referred to before.

In St Mary's Church, Stafford, may be seen Walton's bust by Belt, which was erected by public subscription in 1878.

In 1888, by the permission of Dean Kitchin, a small statue of Walton was placed in the Great Screen in Winchester Cathedral. It was the work of Miss Mary Grant.

In St Dunstan's Church, London, a Walton memorial window was put up in 1895. It was designed by Messrs Percy Bacon and Brothers, of Newman Street, Oxford Street. The central figure on the window is a copy of the statue of Walton in the Cathedral Screen at Winchester. On the right side are portraits of Donne, Hooker and Sanderson, and on the left side are portraits of Wotton, Ken and Herbert; and in the tracery are depicted angels holding scrolls of the virtues and the arms of St Dunstan and of the Ironmongers' Company. The centre quatrefoil contains the intertwined monograms of Walton and Cotton. The window cost £100. Cotton is given no place in the window. No one ever heard that Ken was an angler, and it seems quite out of keeping with the memorial to have included this great hymn-writer and good man in the group to the exclusion of Cotton.

In 1891 there was purchased in an old curiosity shop near Westminster Abbey a fishing creel bearing the initials I. W., with the date 1646 marked on the side. The purchaser submitted it for examination to experts at the British Museum, who pronounced the creel to be the genuine work of Walton's period, but that the initials had been more or less recently scratched on it.

By the kind permission of the owner I have been allowed to inspect the creel for myself. Some Jew is supposed to have been guilty of the fraud (see Notes and Queries, 9th S. VII., p. 410). Several previous attempts have been made to deceive Waltonians as to Walton's possessions ; as to a clock supposed to have been his, see Notes and Queries, 7th S. II., p. 459, and 7th S. III., p. 69.

I have handled Walton's Prayer-book, which is to be seen in the British Museum. It contains his studies for the epitaph of his second wife, which is in Worcester Cathedral. The words "Ex terris M. S." do not appear and there are various autobiographical notes. The article "the between "of" and "of" and "primitive primitive piety" is an interlineation and "Alas! that she is dead" was was originally "Alas! Alas! that she dyed."

Walton rang the changes over the spelling of

his name Izaak, he and others sometimes spelling it with a "k" and sometimes with a "c." In the Prayer-book his son the Canon spells it with a "c." The Canon himself spelt his own name with a "c." In his marriage licence in the Canterbury Episcopal Register, dated the 27th of December 1626, Walton signs his name with a "c"; but his will is signed with a "k."

I fail to find

In Macaulay's History of England, Vol. I., Chapter III., there is a note on the paragraph as to the scarcity of books in country houses in the year 1685 which seems misleading. It is stated: "Cotton seems, from his Angler, to have found room for his whole library in his hall window and Cotton was a man of letters." the authority for the statement. X. of Part II. of The Complete Angler, Piscator says: "Walk but into the parlour, you will find one book or other in the window to entertain you the while"; but surely this is a poor authority to quote to show that Cotton had but few books and that he kept all he possessed in his hall window !

In Chapter

With a curious desire to discover defects in Walton's character I have made careful search. The charge against him of cruelty as a fisherman has been referred to in Chapter III. The charge of his having been on one occasion "huffy, brought against him by Franck, is almost too