502 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
has fished much, and read more, making notes by the way, and the 
little volume which he now offers to his brother anglers and the 
public he describes as a selection of “notes” from his common- 
place book on angling, and from the enormous mass of piscine 
and piscatorial memoranda and extracts which have gradually 
accumulated round him. These “notes” are, therefore, of a 
somewhat miscellaneous order, and if they do not always contain 
anything very new, they are presented to us not unfrequently in 
a new dress, and with comments by the author which deserve 
perusal. Indeed the chief merit of the book before us, in our 
opinion, lies in the comparisons which the author draws between 
his own experience and that of others who have written on the 
subject before him. He quotes older authors on various knotty 
points, narrates the result of his own experience, and endeavours 
to reconcile or account for the curious discrepancies which are 
occasionally to be met with in the published statements of 
enthusiastic fishermen. 
His first note, headed “Ichthyology,” deals with the classi- 
fication of fish, and their structure ; and various speculations are 
made as to whether fish hear, sleep, and feel pain. On these 
points, however, the author does not speak very positively, 
apparently not having made any original experiments in the 
matter, but contents himself for the most part with quoting the 
opposite opinions of others. 
In his second note, “On the Literature of Fishing,” which 
occupies between thirty and forty pages, a brief account is given 
of some of the most notable books on angling, the subject being 
divided under the heads of, “Authors before Izaak Walton,” 
* Walton’s Contemporaries,’ “ Authors after Walton to end of 
18th century,” and “ Authors from 1800 to the present time.” 
The merits of “Fishing as a Sport” may be taken to be so 
universally recognized and admitted at the present day that our 
author’s third “note,” under this heading, might have remained 
unpublished without at all detracting from the value of his book ; 
but Mr. Manley, like many another enthusiast when riding bis 
hobby, cannot resist a desire to indite a defence of his favourite 
field sport against every attack, real or imaginary, that can be 
made against it. 
The same may almost be said of the note on “ Fishing as a Fine 
Art,” upon which so much has at various times been written. But 
