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TORONTO Y. 0.— In the 4th class race on June 33, twelve vachts 

 started, Caprice winning first prize, Mischief second. andAlavetta 

 third. 



NEW JERSEY Y. C.-The race for classes D and E not haying 

 been made within the limit will he resailed on July 17. 



AMERICAN FISHES.* 



THIS is, by far, the best popular work which has ever been 

 published on the fishes of Amei'ica, and is a book that no 

 angler who takes pleasure in knowing the fishes which afford him 

 sport, can afford to miss. The work covers nearly 500 pages and 

 is handsomely printed and profusely illustrated, the cuts being, 

 in many cases, reduced copies from the great work on the "Fish- 

 eries Industries,' 1 by the same author, and are therefore scien- 

 tifically correct. It is intended for the use of the angler, the lover 

 of nature, and the general reader, and not for naturalists, the 

 author being as well qualified for this work as any man in the 

 country, by reason of his long study of the subject under the most 

 favorable conditions, and he has aimed to include every North 

 American fish which is likely to be of interest to the general 

 reader, either because of its gameness or its economic uses. 



The perplexing question of what fishes are entitled to rank as 

 game is thus defined: "A game fish is a choice fish— a fish not 

 readily obtained by wholesale methods at all seasons of the year, 

 nor constantly to be had in the market — a fish, furthermore, 

 which has some degree of intelligence and cunning, and which 

 matches hisown wits against those of the anglers, requiring skill, 



* American Fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and 

 food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits 

 and methods of capture. By G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution; corresponding member of 

 the Zoological Society of London, the Deutsche Fischerei Verein, 

 the National Fishculture Association of Great Britain, the North- 

 ern Fisheries Society of Japan, etc., etc.; late United States Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, and Commissioner to the International 

 Fisheries Exhibitions in Berlin and London. With numerous 

 illustrations. New York: Standard Book Co. 1898. 



forethought and ingenuity to encompass its capture." This is 

 perhaps as good a definition as has heeu given and is an improve- 

 ment on his former definition in Scribner's "Game Fishes." by 

 himself and Kilbourn. In his "prologue" he says: "Perhaps 

 some may feel aggrieved because there are no discussions of rods, 

 reels, lines, hooks and flies, and no instructions concerning camp- 

 ing out, excursions, routes, guides and hotels. To such the author 

 would say that he has at present neither time nor inclination to 

 enter upon these subjects. Men who know them better than he 

 have already written what should be written," and he cites sev- 

 eral such authors, journals and magazines, and all through the 

 work he has given credit to writers for such facts as he has taken 

 from them, a virtue not always practiced by angling writers, 

 ancient or modern. 



Prof. Goode has included in his title the "game and food fishes," 

 and this disarms all criticism regarding what is properly game 

 and what is merely food, unless it should be asked under which 

 head the fresh water drum should be placed, although it is said 

 that men have eaten them and lived to tell it, and, after carefully 

 looking over his work to find a flaw, this is the only thing we find 

 to carp at, for, while we have no use for this fish, either as food or 

 game, our author says: "Its value as a food fish depends on the 

 water and food, and, unlike most fishes, its quality seems to im- 

 prove to the southward. Although from its size and abundance 

 it becomes an important market fish, it cannot be considered one 

 of high quality. Its flesh is tough and coarse in fibre, and often 

 of a disagreeable shark -like odor, particularly in the Great Lakes, 

 where it is never eaten. The flesh of partly grown sx>ecimens is 

 better than that of the adult." So it will be seen that we cannot 

 quarrel with him about this. 



When we come to look at the excellent points of this work it is 

 not an easy task to name them, and we will not try. It will suf- 

 fice that we have called it the best popular work on fishes ever 

 published, and the angler who cares to distinguish the species 

 which come to his hook, and to know of their habits and relation- 

 ship, will prize it as the best thing of its kind ever written, while 

 the novice will find it of great value to him in showing him by 

 correct plates what a certain fish is like, when a technical de- 

 scription would be more than "Greek" to him. The only one who 

 will be disappointed in this work is he who has just awakened to 

 the fact that there is something to be learned about fishes and 

 wants all knowledge on the subject, of species, angling, camping, 

 tackle, woodcraft, fishculture, etc., in a pocket volume. To the 

 reading angler who owns several works on fishes this one will be 

 welcome. 



From the yellow perch, which begins the volume, to the smelt, 



which concludes it. there is not a dull line, nor a bit of padding. 

 The chapter on the "catfish, or bullhead" begins: "The catfish 

 is somewhat like pate de foie gras or pickled olives. Those who 

 do not very much like it detest it. The metropolis of its popular- 

 ity is Philadelphia, but whenever taken fiom clear, cool water it 

 is'palatable, and when properly cooked even delicious, its texture 

 and flavor resembling that of the eel. Since every small boy 

 begins bis angling experiences with catfish, instructions for its 

 capture would he superfluous." Then follow several pages on 

 this excellent breakfast fish whose main fault is that his head 

 weighs as much as the rest of his body ; but the way in which 

 Prof. Goode writes what we have quoted is not only charming but 

 true. 



A work of this kiud has been needed, something on the rela- 

 tionships and habits of fishes which, being free from technical 

 descriptions, can be read and understood by the mass of anglers, 

 and Prof. Goode has happily accomplished this. 



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