CHOICE WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY AND SPORT. 



THE SALMON: 



ITS HISTORY, POSITION, AND PROSPECTS. 



By ALEX. RUSSEL. 



CONTENTS. 



I. VALUE OF THE SALMON. 

 II. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALMON. 

 III. DECAY OF SALMON. 



IV. SALMON LEGISLATION. 

 V. FUTPHE SALMON LEGISLATION. 

 VI. NON-LEGISLATIVE REMEDIES. 



In One Vol. Demy 8vo, 7s. 6d. 



' This important work is the greatest effort of one of our foremost and best writers 

 upon the salmon, and all that pertains to it. Mr. Russel has so high a reputation as 

 a writer, that we had a right to expect (on a theme upon which he has clearly wrought 

 con amore), a work of considerable power and interest, and we are not disappointed. 

 In fact, our expectations are far more than realized, for, after reading Mr. Russel's 

 work, we put down the book, feeling that there is really no more to be said on the 

 subject, that the author has seen through every phase of every argument that bears 

 upon it, and' has fairly exhausted them. No book has ever yet appeared which so 

 entirely and thoroughly deals with the subject. We most strongly commend its per- 

 usal to all our readers, of whatever section, who are interested in the salmon. The 

 general reader need fear no dry polemics and weary wading, for the book, though on a 

 special subject, is written in such a pleasant and lucid manner that the public at large 

 can hardly fail to be deeply interested in its perusal.' Field. 



II. 



Forty graphic Illustrations by a New Hand, in Oblong Folio, 

 Handsomely bound in Half-Morocco, price 21s. 



BY THE LOCH AND RIVER SIDE. 



1 How anglers manage to live through the winter through those four or five months 

 when Frost, " with his mace petrific," has smitten the streams and lochs, and when all fish, 

 or at least all Scotch fish, are out of condition and out of temper is a mystery even to 

 themselves. As each winter is about to begin, there runs throughout the fraternity a 

 cold shudder, accompanied by a heart-sinking impression that life has lost its savour 

 that living any longer has become rather a disagreeable duty to one's family than a pleasure 

 to one's self; and as each spring comes back and hope revives, they wonder vaguely 

 how they have lived through the dismal interval, of which they retain no memory but 

 of having listlessly endured a sort of dull pain. Here, however, is help in need. Here 

 is material for mirth and for pleasant meditation for the freshening up of happy 

 memories, and the anticipation of delights yet to come. Some one experienced in 

 handling both the rod and the pencil with an eye for fish and an eye for fun, who 

 tells only of delights that he knows ("he best can paint them who has felt them most") 

 has reproduced on paper, or on millboard, some of the scenes and incidents he has 

 seen or imagined by the river's bank, or on the bosom of the loch the latter a place 

 affording a peculiar abundance both of leisure and of materials for day-dreaming in all 

 its branches.' Scotsman. 



