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the progress of angling as an art has really been no-greater than 
might have been expected, considering that amongst field sports 
it is the least expensive to indulge in, and consequently attracts 
the largest number of disciples. The more a subject is studied 
the more is art in connection with it likely to be developed. 
Space will not permit us to notice in detail the dozen or more 
chapters which are devoted to as many different species of British 
fresh-water fish. Suffice it to say that Mr. Manley seems to have 
made personal acquaintance with them all, and at times to have 
been very successful in luring them to his creel. His notes on 
each, although somewhat discursive, are pleasantly written, and 
his illustratious of fish, in the style of those in Major’s edition of 
Walton, although not so good, add much to the attractiveness of a 
very readable volume. 
Sketches of Animal Life and Habits. By ANDREW WILSON, Ph.D., 
Lecturer on Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the Medical 
School, Edinburgh. Post 8vo, pp. 208, with Illustrations. 
London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers. 1877. 
WE gather from the author’s Preface that this series of Sketches 
has been compiled with the view of affording general readers, and 
especially the young, some popular and yet trustworthy ideas 
regarding some of the most interesting groups of the animal world. 
The work may, in fact, be regarded as a Natural History text- 
book, adapted for use in Nature’s school at large, and as a guide 
to the use of the observant powers, through the due exercise of 
which all true ideas of Nature are acquired. 
To give the reader a notion of the varied contents of the book 
we cannot do better than quote the headings of the different 
chapters, which are as follow :—“ A peep at Animalcules ;” “ Life 
in the Depths;” “Concerning Sea-Anemones;” ‘Sea Eggs ;” 
“A Gossip about Crabs;” ‘Shells and their Inmates;” “ Butter- 
flies of the Sea;” “ Cuttle-fish Lore;” “Odd Fishes and their 
Common-place Neighbours;” “Curiosities of Insect Life ;” 
“Curious Animal Companionships;” “ Animal Disguises and 
Transformations ;” “Animal Armouries ;” and “ Footprints on the 
Sands of Time.” 
