'by train or tram or 'bus, as the modern Londoner does." Certainly Walton once refers to "my horse" when referring to baits for bream. However, the question seems hardly worth pursuing, but the following fancy conversation written by W. S. Landor in his Imaginary Conversations, Vol. IV., is interesting; "Walton. Hold my mare, son Cotton. I will try whether my whip can reach the window, when I have mounted the bank. "Cotton. Curious! the middle of a street to be lower than the side by several feet. People would not believe it in London or Hull." Again we read; "I never could have believed, master Izaak, that you would have trusted your tackle out of your own hand"; and Walton says: "Without cogent reason, no indeed; but-let me whisper. I told youngster it was because I carried a hunting-whip, and could not hold that and rod too." The play-writer has not forgotten to make Walton the subject for a drama. I possess a booklet printed from the prompter's copy by Charles Dance (Chapman & Hall). The dedication runs as follows: "To the President and Members of The Walton & Cotton Club, the following humble tribute to the memory of their revered Father and Friend, honest Izaak Walton,' The scene is Ashbourne. is especially dedicated by their very obedient Servant, Charles Dance." It is dated from the Garrick Club, and dated 1st July 1839. Walton's portrait, formerly in the National Gallery, was in July 1898 deposited in the National Portrait Gallery. It was painted by Jacob Huysman (1656-1696), a Dutch artist, who was born at Antwerp, and settled in England. He was the rival as a portrait painter of Sir Peter Lely. One of the portraits among the "Windsor Beauties," now at Hampton Court, was painted by him, also an altar-piece in the King's Chapel, St James's. He died in London. The portrait has been thought to show "mild complacency, forbearance, mature consideration, calm activity, peace, sound understanding, power of thought, discerning attention, and secretly active friendship." There are several portraits of Charles Cotton. The portrait by Sir Peter Lely, now in the possession of the writer, was formerly in the possession of his great uncle, John Beresford, of Ashbourne, and it is the one to be found copied in Sir Harris Nicholas's, and Baxter's edition of The Complete Angler. Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) became intimate with Charles II. and painted many beauties of his Court. He was knighted in 1679. He died suddenly, and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, where a monument was erected to his memory. He married and had two children. The real lover of Walton will enjoy the following extract from Major: "I had long been asking myself in the language of Abraham Cowley, 'What shall I do to be for ever known?' and my good genius whispered, 'Give your days and nights to emblazon the worth of Izaak Walton.'" CHAPTER XII SHORT SKETCHES OF SOME FAMOUS ECCLESIASTICS "Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either of these two is wanting." 20, 385, The Spectator. "In companions That do converse and waste the time together, Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirits." Merchant of Venice. "Life is never finished in its purpose and idea; and its work is at best but a fragment."-JAMES Martineau. In his youth and early manhood Walton appears to have had the power to make "troops of friends,” and he possessed the still greater power of keeping them. We have seen in a former chapter he was very particular whom he would reckon as his friends; his will shows he had many who survived him, though he outlived nearly all of the most famous of them. I now give concise biographical sketches of some of them. "And we may well wonder how many more sons of Memory must he not have known or seen in all those years-so populous with men justly famous." I have dived into a multitude of books to gain my information, and I think that certain matters not generally known will here be found narrated. THOMAS BARLOW, BISHOP OF LINCOLN "Fling away ambition." In He was born at Langhill, in the Parish of Orton, in Westmoreland, and was a son of Richard Barlow, descended from the ancient family of that name, of Barlow Moore, in Lancashire. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He was a strong Protestant and Calvinist, and became a very ambitious man and a great time-server. 1660 he wrote in favour of toleration.1 Becoming Provost of Queen's College, and a prebendary of Worcester Cathedral, he was, in 1675, appointed Bishop of Lincoln. It appears he changed his views in 1684, for in a charge to his clergy he called on them to enforce the laws against the dissenters, "agreeably to the resolution of the 1 The title of the treatise being The Case of Toleration in Matters of Religion; it was addressed to Robert Boyle. |