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NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



Salmon and Trout. By Dean Sage, C. H. Townsend, H. M. 

 Smith, and W. C. Harris. New York : The Macniillan 

 Company. 



This book forms one of the series known as " The American 

 Sportsman's Library " ; it transports us to the rivers and lakes 

 of North America, and in the recital of its interesting theme we 

 forget that we are anglers, and as naturalists absorb its interesting 

 bionomical facts and observations. The Salmon has long pos- 

 sessed almost a literature of its own, and it is worthy of it ; 

 Mr. Dean Sage occupies the first section of the volume with his 

 story of the Atlantic Salmon. We all know the perversity with 

 which fish will respond to the allurement of the fly, and every 

 angler has engraven on his memory the reminiscence of those 

 hours when they would rise at anything. Even injuries will not 

 prevent this experimental voracity. Mr. Sage has known in- 

 stances of fish taking the fly when so badly hurt as to make it 

 seem almost incredible that they should want to move. " I took 

 one which had lately lost a good pound of flesh by a Seal bite, 

 and saw one of twenty-three pounds taken, which I afterwards 

 learned had been hooked, played, gaffed, and lost the evening 

 before about half a mile below. Iu addition to the fly embedded 

 in his jaw with a yard of gut fast thereto, he had a deep open 

 gaff wound in his shoulder." "The Pacific Salmons" are 

 described by Messrs. Townsend and Smith, and the fine species 

 of Oncorhynchus and Salmo gairdneri (the last in reality a Trout) 

 receive concise but ample treatment. 



To Mr. W. C. Harris is given the subject of the " Trouts of 

 America." These fish appear to have given no less sport to the 

 angler than satisfaction to the systematist in the elaboration of 

 species and subspecies, a question with which we are now happily 

 quite unconcerned. The living adaptations to their environment 

 by these fishes are remarkable. In the Yellowstone Lake, Trout 



