BAGN ALL'S BUNGLES. 93 



BAGNALL'S BUNGLES. 



A EEVIEW. 



" HAS this book a sufficient excuse for existence is 

 it wanted, in short ? " That is a query which all 

 authors, and angling authors emphatically, would do 

 well to put to themselves when proposing to lay a 

 fresh burden upon our already groaning shelves. 

 Assuredly it is a question which the critic must ask, 

 and get answered too, even before that of, "Is the 

 book good, or is it bad ? " 



What then is the excuse for the existence of the 

 Piscatorial Rambles ? Let us turn to the preface. 

 To the preface we turn, but search through it in vain, 

 we will not say for any excuse, but for any apology 

 for an excuse for its coming into being. There is 

 not a word which conveys the smallest idea to our 

 mind as to why this small volume of microscopic 

 type and aspect uninviting should now be lying in 

 bodily presence before us why we should be called 

 upon to review it, and why others (as we may pre- 

 sume that every book has some one or more pur- 

 chasers) should be called upon to read it. We are 



