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THE ANGLER-NATURALIST. ‘ 
Field.—“‘ An admirable book . . . it is in fact the most complete history of British fresh- 
water fish of the present day.” 
¥Yohn Bull.‘ A work of national importance. Characterized by a careful and systematic 
knowledge of the special branches of zoology which come within its scope; and thoroughly 
worthy to place its author’s name by the side of that Coryphzeus of this class of literature—Gilbert 
White of Selborne.” ' 
Press.—‘‘ So good a manual has not hitherto appeared ; the lazy angler will dream over it ; 
the strenuous angler will carefully study it; and make good use of its concise information and 
manifold suggestions. . . . Instruction and amusement are pleasantly mingled in its pages, 
and the angler will be unwise who does not contrive to find room in his knapsack for this charming 
volume.” 
Saturday Review.—‘It admirably carries out its selected programme. It claims for every 
sportsman that he should be a bit of a naturalist, and does its part to make the angler a com- 
plete one, as far as fish are concerned. That its author is both one and the other we have 
abundant evidence. The Zuctdus ordo bespeaks the naturalist, the practical information a true 
disciple of the gentle craft.” 
Reader.— An admirable work. It is stored throughout with anecdotes, which Mr. Pennell 
relates in language that is always terse and graceful. On the subject of fishing he is well known 
as an authority. . . . Zhe Angler-Naturalist is a clever book, and a useful book, anda 
book sai generis. We have no doubt that it will become a standard work of reference. Let us 
add, what Mr. Pennell has modestly omitted, that itis the most complete history of British fresh- 
water fish of the present day ; and that the illustrations are equal to the text—which is the greatest 
compliment we can pay them.” 
Baily’s Sporting Magazine.— No man can be qualified to send forth such a book as this 
one, which we have just read with infinite pleasure and profit, unless his knowledge of natural 
history and angling be a practical and full one, gained by personal experience, cherished by a true 
love of the subject, and totally independent of theory and book-wisdom.” 
Lancet.—*‘ Let those who have hitherto been satisfied with being simply killers of fish turn 
to this very beautiful book, and make themselves masters of its pages. It will be strange, 
indeed, if they do not wish to become something more, and we must even say better.” 
THE BOOK OF THE PIKE. 
Field.—‘‘ Since the days of Nobbes, the father of trollers, no work has issued from the press 
likely to carry such consternation into the homes and haunts of the tyrant of the waters as the 
book before us. . . . Mr. Pennell has certainly taken in the pike and done for him, and there 
is nothing left for succeeding writers on pike-fishing to tell their readers. He has exhausted the 
subject, and has done it so well and so deftly, that one wanders on, and on, through his 
pleasant pages, wondering where he has gathered all this pike-lore from, and how it is that ina 
somewhat restricted subject like the history of, and means of capture employed upon one par- 
ticular fish, he has contrived to beguile one of any sense of tedium. On the practical department 
of his book we need enlarge but little. Mr. Pennell is so well known to be a sexzor angler in the 
art he professes, that it is far better to let him speak for himself, and te recommend our readers 
to cull his directions from the fountain-head, than to attempt to condense them in simply mangled 
fragments. As for criticising them, there is no need of it.” 
Sporting Gazette.— That there is an actual necessity for and value attached to such an 
addition to the fisherman’s library, apart from the consideration of the literary and piscatory 
talents of the author, will readily be conceded by those who are aware that no English work 
has ever before been devoted exclusively to pike-fishing. We may therefore congratulate our- 
selves that such an addition has come to us, and from sucha source. . . . Part II. exhausts, 
we may say, completely and satisfactorily, all the various details of each method of pike-fishing.” 
Land and Water.— ‘Has this book a sufficient excuse for existence? Mr Pennell asks 
in his preface. The best of excuses we reply. Since Nobbes, of the dark ages, no substantial 
treatise on pike-fishing has been given to the world, if we except those of Salter and ‘‘ Otter”— 
the one a Cockney, the other a catchp:nny production. The Book of the Pike, on the contrary, 
is the work of a scholar and a gentleman, and of a senior angler to boot, and it treats its subject 
exhaustively.” 
Bell’s Life.—“ This is in every sense of the word a clever book, and is, moreover, as useful 
as itis unpretending. . . . We can with every satisfaction endorse the prophetic suggestion 
of Mr. Westwood, whose Azbliographical Anglomania is known and admired by all anglers of — 
note, when he says that ‘ Posterity will agree to designate Mr. Pennell the ‘Father of Pike- — 
fishers.’ A naturalist and a most genial writer, Mr. Pennell is also a student in history, and . 
the charm of his teaching is heightened by its graceful and gentle utterance.” 
