28 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 21

Isaac Walton : Hii Wallet Book (Field and Taal-) is

a very quaint volume, in which are printed, in type of the seventeenth century, the "songs and poesies" contained in the "Complete Angler," the said songs being " newly set forth and adorned with sculptures curiously engraved by Joseph Crawhall." The " sculptures " are the old- fashioned coloured pictures which we commonly associate with the chap-books. The volume is bound in parchment, and, to complete its claim to the title which it bears, is furnished with pockets for im- plements of the angler's craft and for " baccy" (a modern slang abbreviation of which we cannot approve in this place). These pockets, it must be understood, have a literary rather than a praotical purpose.