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of wild animals which will be very acceptable to naturalists. It 

 is with these that we are chiefly concerned, and the reader who 

 happens to be a sportsman as well as a naturalist will thoroughly 

 enjoy the perusal of the author's adventures so graphically 

 described by him. It is one of the best books on sport and 

 travel in South Africa that has appeared for a long time. 



Angling Literature in England, and Descriptions of Fishiiuj by the 

 Ancients : with a Notice of some hooks on other piscatorial 

 subjects. By Osmund Lambert. 12mo, pp. 87. Sampson, 

 Low & Co. 1881. 



Those who are already familiar with the Catalogues of Books 

 relating to Fishing by Sir Henry Ellis, Pickering, Russell Smith, 

 and Mr. Westwood, will doubtless experience some disappoint- 

 ment if they expect to find in the present publication an attempt 

 to improve upon its predecessors. The title is too comprehensive, 

 and raises expectations not destined to be realized. It does not 

 contain, as might be supposed, a complete list of English books 

 on Angling, with bibliographical notes, nor are the notices 

 of classical allusions to the subject anything like exhaustive. 

 Apparently the author seeks merely to direct attention to some 

 of the most remarkable English books on fishing, with here and 

 there a quotation to illustrate the style of the writer noticed ; and 

 the same may be said as regards the Greek and Latin authors who 

 have in any marked degree alluded to fishing with an angle. 



In ransacking this particular field of literature, Mr. Lambert 

 has evidently bestowed considerable time and labour upon his 

 undertaking, and the result is a delightful little book of less 

 than a hundred pages, which, in the hands of a travelling 

 angler, would most pleasantly beguile the tedium of a long rail- 

 way journey. Printed on hand-made paper, and daintily bound 

 in vellum, it is just the sort of book to arrest the attention 

 of those who are not content with the mere exercise of their 

 favourite branch of sport, but are glad to make themselves 

 acquainted with all that is written about it. To readers of this 

 class, Mr. Lambert's remarks on the best editions of favourite 

 authors will doubtless be very acceptable. 



