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quote the late Mr. Barnes, 'lots of grapple' in dealing 

 with, his subject ; and we trust that his readers may be 

 able to act up to the spirit of the phrase, and remember 

 his advice when they feel the thrilling nibble, and have 

 to go gallantly into action at a moment's notice with a 

 Highland Salmoferox in the approaching summer." 



SATURDAY REVIEW. 



" Mr. Stewart's book, Tlie Practical Angler, entirely 

 fulfils its title. The author, who is said to be the best 

 fisherman in Scotland, has an object, and keeps it 

 steadily in view it is to teach the art of killing trout 

 in clear water. ... A more practical, sound, sen- 

 sible, and unpretending book we never read, and we re- 

 commend it without abatement or qualification." 



SCOTSMAN. 



"This book is the probable inauguration of a new 



era in the art of angling Although the 



angler's library is already a pretty full one, each half- 

 century for the last three hundred years having pro- 

 duced one or more pleasant and useful additions to it, 

 \ve have no hesitation in saying that it cannot be com- 

 plete without this little volume. Nowhere that we 

 know of in the same compass, or indeed in any compass, 

 is there so much valuable practical instruction to the 

 trout-fisher. Mr. Stewart indulges but little in those 

 graces of composition through which some of our least 

 useful angling-books are rendered the most charming to 

 the reader, but crams every page with information, 

 which, from its obvious accordance with common sense 

 and sound theory, not less than from its being vouched 

 for by an angler of large experience, and of a skill that 

 has never yet been matched, commends itself as valuable 

 even to the most sceptical and self-satisfied adept." 



