I thank the proprietors of the Field, Macmillan's Magazine, and the Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette for their permission to use, in this book, articles which they have published. Those from the Field were originally entitled: The Friendship of the River, A Day with the Keeper, Some Dry-fly Refinements, A Blank Day, The Great Dry-fly Myth, The Purism of Flounder Fishing, The Crackling of Thorns, Fishing Trophies, The Patience of Anglers, The Perfect Thrill, The Trout at the Boundary, Then and Now, The Essential Falsity, Three Days on the Sea-Stream, and A Norwegian Interlude.
To Macmillan's Magazine I am indebted for Isaac on a Chalk Stream, and to the Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette for Mors Janua, in this book called Of Death.
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