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JVOTES AM) LITER HIKE 



Salmon and Trout. 1 — This is one of the most desirable of recent 

 publications on angling. The three sections of which it is ccmposed 

 are unequal in quantity and to some extent in quality yet they effec- 

 tually cover their field. The first section, of 149 pages, by Dean 

 Sage, on the Atlantic Salmon, is a most excellent piece of work, how- 

 ever regarded. The dearest interests of the angler, habits, localities, 

 tackle, capture, and the like, are admirably and thoroughly treated. 

 Discussing but a single species, future changes of names and position 

 can have little effect on this essay. Literary merit, accuracy, and 



contributions on the subject. 



The second section, of about 40 pages, on " The Pacific Salmons,'" 

 by Messrs. Townsend and Smith, is filled with information about 

 species not as well known as Salmo salar and which apparently do 

 not lend themselves as readily to the purposes of the sportsman. 



The third section occupies more than 200 pages and, treating of 



species. The author, YVm. C. Harris, is one of the first of living 

 authorities on his topics and, so far as the matters of most impor- 

 tance to anglers are concerned, there is probably no one more com- 

 petent. A veteran and an enthusiast he has the experiences of 

 many years from which to draw material that is always full of life 



and tackle or its manufacture his work has its greatest value. The 

 technical science, in which he appears to take some pride, introduces 

 elements that make for less of permanence. For the classification 

 and nomenclature, and in great part knowledge of distribution, are 

 only approximations, unsatisfactory and more or less discredited by 

 the authorities, liable to be modified or superseded in the near 

 future. 



following from page 194 will serve as an instance: "In i486, six 

 years before the discovery of America, Wynken De Worde, among the 

 first of English printers, published that famous work, 1 The Booke of 

 St. Albans 1 on ' the dyssporte of fysshyng ' by Dame Juliana Berners 

 or Barnes, the Prioress of Sopwell in England ; it was the first book 



