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Cambridge, Cambridge University, Canterbury, Cawood Castle, Ched- 

 wortb, Cheshunt, Corby Castle, Cortachy Castle, Creslow Manor 

 House, Daintree, Dunfermline, Edge Hill, Edinburgh — Canongate — 

 Gillespie Hospital, Trinity — Enfield Chace, Epsom — Pitt Place — 

 Epworth Parsonage, Eslier, Eton, Glamis Castle, Glasgow (' The Hell 

 Club '), Grayrigg Hall, Hackwood House, Hanley, Heanor, Hereford, 

 Henhow Cottage, Hilton Castle, Holland House, Lambton Castle, 

 Littlecot House, London — Argyle Eooms, Broad Street, James Street, 

 W.C, St. James's Palace, St. James's Street, The Tower — Lowther 

 Hall, Lumley, Mannington Hall, Milford Haven, Nannau, Newstead 

 Abbey, North Shields — Stevenson Street — Ottery, Oulton High House, 

 Oxford University — Queen's College — Peele Castle, Plymouth, Powis 

 Castle, Kainham, Pamhurst Manor House, Eochester, Eushen Castle, 

 Sarratt, Scorrier House, Settle, Souldern Eectory, Spedlin's Tower, 

 Strachur Manse, Taunton, Tedworth, Truro, Waltham, Warblingtou 

 Parsonage, Westminster — I^ng Street — Willington Mill, Windsor 

 Castle, Woodhouslee, and Yorkshire. There is also an appendix of 

 miscellaneous information. In a very emphatic sense these stories 

 are thrilling, and the book is sure to find a host of enthralled readers. 



The Sea-Fisherman .• comprising the Chief Methods of Hook and Line 

 Fishifig in the British and other Seas, and remarks on Nets, 

 Boats, and Boating. By J. C. Wilcocks. London : Longmans, 

 Green, and Co. 1884. Fourth edition. 



The author of this excellent and valuable book was the winner of the 

 prize of £100 at the International Eisheries Exhibition of 1883, for 

 the best essay on improved fishery harbour accommodation for Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and he is the author also of six other prize essays 

 on fishery subjects at the Fisheries Exhibition at Norwich in 1881, 

 and at Edinburgh in 1882. He is, therefore, it must be admitted, a 

 competent authority on the subject with which this volume deals. 

 The present edition is much enlarged from the previous one, and is 

 almost entirely re- written. It is profusely illustrated with woodcuts 

 of leads, baited hooks, knots, nets, boats, &c., and detailed descriptions 

 of the same. We have often wondered that such a book as this has 

 not been forthcoming before, because there is a very large public 

 interested in sea fishing, not merely as consumers of sea fish, but as 

 lovers of sea angling. Yet hitherto, although the demand for books 

 on fresh-water fishing have been abundantly met, there has been 

 a positive dearth of volumes on the subject now most exhaustively 

 dealt with by Mr. Wilcocks. The author is right in his belief ' that 

 amongst all the useful arts there is probably not one of which the 

 knowledge has been so much confined to those who make it thei 



