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from the fish being a very swift swimmer; it disappears like a 
shadow— 
“The smooth-scaled Umbra as it passes by, 
Flits as a shadow o’er the gazer’s eye.” 
With an account of this fish the book closes; but we must not 
omit to notice the capital mezzotint of a Salmon-pool, engraved 
by Mr. Seymour Haden as a frontispiece to the volume, nor the 
many pretty woodcuts from sketches made by the author during 
some of his fishing expeditions. 
A Highland Gathering. By E. Lennox Peru. With illustrations 
by Cuartes Wuymprer. Post 8vo, pp. 185. Longmans, 
Green & Co. 1885. 
Despite the Shakespearian dictum, ‘‘What’s in a name?” 
experience tells us that in selecting a title for a book a great deal 
may depend upon the name which is bestowed. Mr. Lennox 
Peel’s title is not a happy one, for it conveys to the reader’s 
mind no adequate idea of the nature of the contents. Before 
opening it we supposed it to be a novel, in which we expected to 
find a more or less dramatic description of “‘the gathering of the 
clans,” with descriptions of Scottish life and scenery. We have 
been agreeably surprised to find that it is nothing of the kind, 
but embodies some of the highland experiences of an enthusiastic 
sportsman, in whose narrative incidents of sport and Natural 
History are pleasantly mingled. 
Deer-stalking, salmon-fishing, ptarmigan-shooting, and other 
kindred occupations which tend to make life pass so agreeably in 
the Highlands are all described in turn, and the reader is often 
reminded, by the truthfulness of the descriptions, of similar turns 
of good or ill fortune within his own experience. 
Some thirty illustrations from the facile pencil of Mr. Charles 
Whymper, many of them capitally drawn, appeal almost as much 
to the sympathies of the naturalist as to those of the sportsman. 
Deer crossing a hill, “ black and gaunt against the drifted snow ” 
(p. 177), and Ptarmigan on the wing (p. 180) may be especially 
noted as sketches in which the artist has happily caught the 
true expression of motion in these “children of the mist.” 
