FISHING GOSSIP Opinion* of the Press Continued. 



"We are indebted to Mr. Pennell for the present collection of 

 articles by various authors, qualified for the most part, as their con- 

 tributions show, to write upon the subject in hand. This blending 

 into a whole of the thoughts, opinions, and experiences of many in- 

 dividuals, is of far greater value than the voluminous and egotistical 

 effusions in which sportsmen, without any particular qualification to 

 write a book, frequently indulge, inasmuch as we obtain the real metal 

 with as small a quantity as possible of alloy." London Review. 



"Mr. Pennell, the cessation of whose agreeable labours upon the 

 Fisherman's Magazine we have never ceased to regret, has given us 

 here a pleasant melange in the shape of a series of papers by the con- 

 tributors to that magazine, and many of which papers originally 

 appeared in it, but which have been considerably amended, re-written, 

 and added to for their publication in the present volume, while a small 

 proportion of them are novelties. Amongst the pleasantest and most 

 noteworthy articles are, 'Loach-trolling, by E. N. Murta,' and a 

 very liberal ' Plea for Tourists ' on the part of Mr. W. Carruthers, 

 who puts in a good word for the tourists, and thinks it hard, as no 

 doubt it is, that salmon rivers, or portions of them, should be shut up 

 for months while the fish are on the move and the lessees elsewhere. 

 Mr. Westwood's ' Stream in Arden ' is a charming piece of blank 

 verse, which murmurs along as poetically and sweetly as the most 

 musical stanzas of Moore or Byron. We have noticed it before, but it 

 does not weary of repetition. * Spring Fishing on Loch Ard ' is a very 

 useful, and of course well-written article by the talented author of 

 'The Salmon,' Mr. Kussel ; and perhaps as good a paper as any in 

 the book is that upon ' Curiosities in Angling Literature, ' by our 

 friend Greville Fennell a quaint collection of oddities truly. In fact, 

 the papers generally, with a few exceptions, are decidedly above the 

 average of talent commonly met with in angling literature, and we are 

 sure will afford to their readers much agreeable mental pabulum. "- 

 Field. 



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