Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and Kindred Studies #224909

It would ill become me if allowed a Second Edition of "Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream" to go to the public without expressing to those writers who have dealt with my volume in the Press my grateful sense of the generosity with which, whether they were or were not in agreement with the main object of the work - the endeavour to put the wet fly in what I conceive to be its right place on the chalk stream - they have one and all received it. In the fifty or so Press notices, short and long, I find, without exception, an absence of the harsh word, and a pervading urbane and kindly spirit which is of the true Waltonian still. Such fault as has been found has in the main been that I have shown undue timidity in dealing with the pretensions of the dry-fly purist.