FISHING GOSSIP Opinions of the Press Continued. 



none but the good-humoured, whether among critics or among owners 

 of fishing streams. And so, instead of quoting any of the fishing talk 

 and anecdote, practical and literary, here is a nudge in season to the 

 gentlemen who own good salmon rivers in the Highlands, being a plea 

 for tourists by Mr. Walter Carruthers. " Examiner. 



" In addition to the sterling value of the information given in this 

 work, the numerous anecdotes introduced in these papers, and the 

 admirable manner in which they are related, are calculated to render it 

 quite as acceptable to the general reader, as it will be useful to the 

 large and daily increasing number of amateurs, for whose special benefit 

 it has been compiled." Observer. 



" Here is gossip, and better than gossip, in prose and verse, about 

 verything connected with every kind of angling sentiment and 

 practice, scenery and inns, lake and river, home and foreign, salt water 

 and fresh, natural history both of fish and of insects, lures, implements, 

 history, and literature. The cockney angler who lolls in a punt all 

 day, accompanied by young ladies and other refreshments, and the 

 ardent adventurer who toils and climbs, remote, unfriended, solitary, 

 slow, in Skye or Ross, from misty morn to rainy eve, will here find 

 matter to their taste, though the former class may read of the latter 

 with compassion, and the latter of the former with contempt." 

 Scotsman. 



"Ample variety and most agreeable reading will be found in the 

 volume of * Fishing Gossip' issued under the editorship of Mr. Pennell, 

 who himself contributes three out of the twenty-four desultory ' stray 

 leaves' which it comprises, the remainder being from the note-books 

 of well-known anglers and naturalists. In a list, however, where all are 

 more or less celebrated, where all seem to have exerted their talents 

 ungrudgingly for the common advantage, it is almost invidious to select 

 particular names ; and if work alone were the test of fame, we are by 

 no means sure, judging from this collection, that one or two of those 

 who may now possibly be considered last should not in fact be first. "- 

 Sporting Gazette. 



