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THE WESTERN MORNING NEWS, June 26///, 1896. 



" This volume is a comprehensive treatise on the subjects of its title, and 

 contains in addition, most interesting matter in relation to salmon angling. It will 

 be valued by all salmon fishers as a book of reference, and not alone in connection 

 with the beautifully executed example of the various flics in use throughout the 

 United Kingdom and the minutia; of their manufacture, but likewise for the thought- 

 ful and thorough manner in which the exceptional experiences of a lifetime, affording 

 opportunities on all the best known rivers, are placed before the reader. Mr. 

 Kelson's name is already well-known to the sporting fraternity ; and, as he says in 

 his preface, his own experiences are fortified by those inherited by him by generations 

 of salmon anglers. . . . The author tells us that ' my programme embraces so 

 much that is technical and mechanical that I should rather endeavour to please 

 by instructing than to instruct by pleasing,' and his endeavour is fairly carried out. . 

 . . Mr. Kelson's volume is, in fishing metaphor, admirably ' presented,' and we can 

 most cordially recommend it to all who are interested in the noble sport with which 

 it deals." 



PALL MALL GAZETTE, April 2()ih, 1S96. 



"Mr. (leorgc Kelson, in liis recent book on salmon fly-tying, has gone one 

 better than the famous ad.nge of Mrs. Glasse with regard to the cooking of hares. 

 Our present author, a fine all-round sportsman and an accredited authority on the 

 Ullinhi 7 /////f of piscatorial art — salmon fishing — harks back and practically says : 

 first make your fly, then cast it ; hook your fish, then land it. Sound advice. . . . 

 On the tying of salmon flies, there are but few books, and none so complete as the 

 one under review. ... As he progresses, he warms to his work, becomes more 

 discursive, ami without losing anything in teclinique, is both instructive and 

 interesting. . . . Mr. Kelson has written a fine work, which is a great acquisition 

 to the angling library." 



EVENING STANDARD, July 6lli, 1896. 



" Mr. George Kelson, we need scarcely say, is a recognised authority on all 

 that relates to the salmon fly, and the most approved methods of dressing and using 

 it. He is an enthusiast as well as an expert. . . . There are many finely 

 coloured plates in the book. . . . This book is filled not so much with counsels 

 of perfection as with pithy, business-like directions, and its value to the man who 

 wishes to conquer the mysteries of the art of fly-fishing, so far, at least, as salmon 

 are concerned, is not open to question." 



