FISHING GOSSIP; 



OR STRAY LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOKS OF SEVERAL 

 ANGLERS. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" Mr. Pennell, who has wit, fancy, and pleasant reading wherewith 

 to bait what books and essays he may write upon his favourite pastime, 

 ought to be as skilful in catching readers as no doubt he is in catching 

 fish. He has written a clever book of poems and a clever book of fairy 

 tales, and he is almost or altogether the cleverest and pleasantest of 

 living writers upon fishing. Of the book before us he is editor ; con- 

 trbuting to the common basket an opening anecdotical sketch anent 

 gudgeon and one or two other light papers. His colleagues of the rod 

 and pen are men of mark among anglers and students on fish, for the 

 volume contains papers by Mr. Fennell, H.M. Inspector of Fisheries; 

 Mr. Frank Buckland, the public conservator of salmon ; Mr. Alexander 

 Russel, who has written the best salmon book ; Mr. H. 0. Francis, and 

 Mr. W. C. Stewart, learned in fly-fishing ; Mr. "W". B. Lord, learned 

 in sea-fish ; Mr. Thomas Tod Stoddart, learned in fish of Scotland ; 

 Dr. Albert Gunther, Curator of the Ichthyological Department of the 

 British Museum, learned in all fish ; Mr. Thomas Westwood, author 

 of the Bibliotlieca Piscatoria, and of that monograph upon Walton, 

 4 The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler,' which makes him prime 

 minister to the Prince of all the Anglers. Mr. Jonathan Couch and 

 Mr. William Pinkerton also contribute. The other contributors are 

 Dr. E. N. Murta, Mr. Greville Fennell, and Mr. Walter Carruthers. 

 They produce among them a lively, readable book of anglers' gossip, 

 with a breath of out-of-doors in it, and the good humour that is one of 

 the signs of the gentle craft. They deserve to come in contact with 



