AUGUSTUS GRIMBLE. 
SHOOTING AND SALMON FISHING: 
HINTS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
By Augustus GtRImble, Author of " Deer-Stalking." 
"With Illustrations, demy 8vo, 16s. 
SECOND EDITION. 
The Atlienseum. says :— " Every lover of the rod and gun will accord Mr. Grimble 
a hearty welconie with his cheery anecdotes and abundant store of experience. This is 
the character of his book. He has wisely eschewed the compilation of a manual, but 
filled half a dozen pleasant chapters with hints and reminiscences. Only tbus can a book 
on modern sporting now justify its appearance. Good stories delight sportsmen when 
good-humouredly told, and the longer a shooter or fisherman lives, if in the least of 
an observant turn, the more hints will he accumulate. Moreover, a book of this chatty, 
disconnected character is just the book for a man to take up after a tiring day by flood or 
field, when anything in the shape of a Mentor would be eminently distasteful. Such a 
wearied sportsman may be assured that he will n )t find a dull page in this volume. Mr. 
Thomburn's excellent illustrations are altogether admirable. They beautify their 
subjects, and will be recurred to again and again with pleasure. We can fancy no more 
charming book than Mr. Grimble's for a sportsman or naturalist to take with him to 
Scotland. Certainly it will be granted a prominent place in the bookcase of every shooting 
lodge." 
Tlie Field says : — " The author is a sportsman of at least thirty years' experience ; 
and although such a lengthened period is not too long lor a man to occupy before he 
becomes a proficient in all things that pertain to game and fi.sh, he must have varied 
experience during that time. He writes of Scotland, of the sport with rod and gun he has 
enjoyed there, and he tells his story plainly, without any grandiose pretensions to fine 
writing. He dedicates his book to those kind friends who have provided him with sport — 
a graceful return for all tha kindnesses he has had at their hands. We have derived con- 
siderable enjoyment from reading Mr. Grimble's book; it is fresh and pleasant, and not so 
dictatorial and full of ' book-learning ' as many other volumes ; indeed, it is practical 
throughout. The illustrations are very bright and good." 
JOHN WATSON'S WORKS. 
POACHERS AND POACHING. 
By John Watson, F.L.S. Crown 8vo, with Frontispiece, 7s. Qd. 
The Times says : — " All who love nature as much as sport harbour a lurking 
sympathy for the poacher. Their respect for his minute knowledge of the life of the fields 
modifies their indignation at his law-breaking propensities. The poacher in the abstract 
can in fact be made a very interesting personage, albeit in the concrete he is only an idle 
and not very scrupulous vagabond. This is the point of view from which he is approached 
in ' Poachers and Poaching,' by John Watson, F.L.S., a very attractive series of papers on 
the life of the fields as seen more or less from the poacher's point of view. Mr. Watson 
has not quite the poetic touch of the late Richard Jefferies, but he has a keen eye, a ready 
pen, and a wide knowledge of rural life." 
BRITISH SPORTING FISHES. 
By John Watson. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6c?. 
' Tlie Saturday Review says : — " A pleasant little book for anglers and lovers of 
nature is Mr. John Watson's ' British Sporting Fishes.' All fresh-water fish that afford 
any sort of sport are sporting fish according to the-author, who finds room in his celightful 
sketches of the life-histories and habitats of fish for the smallest of small fry, the roach, 
the minnow, the stickleback, and so forth. Mr. Watson's sketches follow a downward 
scale, from salmon and trout to the small fry of the pool and the brook, and all are 
characterized by remarkable delicacy of observation." 
CHAPMAN & HALL, ld., LONDON. 
