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THE LIBRARY 
RECENT INTERESTING OUTDOOR PUBLICATIONS IN WHICH 
CONTRIBUTORS TO FOREST AND STREAM FIGURE AS AUTHORS 
A NOTHER most interesting and instructive 
book has been added to American angling 
literature! This time it is from the pen of 
Louis Rhead, the well-known writer, artist and 
all around angler. 
Its title is “American Trout Stream Insects’’ 
and the preface tells anglers: 
“The object of this book is to furnish anglers, 
amateurs, students of entomology, and others in¬ 
terested in aquatic insects, with a colored selec¬ 
tion of the most abundant and well-known trout 
insects that appear, month by month, on the 
rivers and lakes of the temperate regions of 
North America.” 
The book consists of two parts. Part one is 
devoted to “American Trout Stream Insects” and 
is written especially for fly-fishing anglers, while 
part two deals with “New Artificial Nature 
Lures” and is intended for the fishermen who 
more often use the bait method of fishing 
Mr. Rhead has shown rare good judgment in 
the handling of his subjects. He has eliminated 
to a marked degree many things that would con¬ 
fuse most anglers and prove of little value to 
them. From the standpoint of the average fly¬ 
fishing angler a knowledge of the science of en¬ 
tomology is only of interest and value up to the 
practical point of increasing his chances or his 
ability to catch trout with the artificial fly. The 
author writes for all anglers who fish with 
artificial lures and he “plays no favorites,” for 
he says: 
‘<Of this I am sure: for every insect a trout 
takes alive at the surface, a thousand are con¬ 
sumed under water or near the surface; and to 
one natural insect able to float on the surface, 
there are hundreds which cannot float. 
“Because of this fact, I believe it to be the 
height of folly to fish exclusively with dry flies 
on the surface. Wet fishing with two or three 
accurately copied insects is in every way as effec- 
I tive on the average American stream. 
' “I do think the dry-fly method is excellent on 
i large pools, and more or less placid water; but 
the trouble is that trout prefer to lie under a 
rock where turbulent water flows above, from 
which in a runway they get insects alive or 
drowned as they go swiftly by. 
“In general fishing the method is merely a 
matter of preference, and is really of very little 
importance compared to offering the right arti¬ 
ficial that will make trout fancy is its regular 
food.” 
There is hardly an opportunity from either a 
logical or practical standpoint for anglers to 
differ materially with Mr. Rhead when he says: 
‘‘Every thoughtful angler will agree that to 
fish with an exact artificial imitation of the nat¬ 
ural insect is certainly a desirable thing.” 
True, there are times on nearly all trout wa¬ 
ters when, now and then, trout will take a 
“fancy fly” apparently in preference to a natural 
fly or an almost perfect imitation. Such in¬ 
stances, however, are few and far between, and 
if these prove anything it is that, in the vast 
majority of cases, trout will rise to and take in 
preference to any other the artificial fly which 
more nearly resembles the natural insect. Would 
it not seem then as if anglers could accept as a 
fact and without any reservation whatsoever, the 
statement that the desirable artificial flies to use 
at most times on all trouting waters are those 
which best represent the natural insect and by 
so doing “hold the mirror up to Nature”? 
Based upon this theory, and perhaps we are 
fully justified in saying this truism, Mr. Rhead 
has, after several years of research and study of 
the subject, given to the American angling world 
in this new book of his, a simple, well arranged 
and useful classification of the insects found 
upon 'our streams and lakes. This is not all, for 
he has also carefully selected and arranged in a 
concise form the insects that are, in his judg¬ 
ment, best suited for the artificials to be used 
during the different months of the open season 
for trout as it exists in most states at the present 
time. With each month’s classification there, is 
an insect chart, and plate showing the natural in¬ 
sects as they appear in life; these are indeed a 
great addition. On each insect chart there are a 
certain number of flies marked with a star; these 
are choice flies, and the artificials representing 
them which are finely tied from the author’s own 
patterns are to be obtained from William Mills 
& Son, Park Place, New York City, who have 
the exclusive right to make them. 
The different flies are exceptionally well made 
and are very good imitations of the natural in¬ 
sects as shown on the various plates. I have 
carefully examined all of these flies and pur¬ 
pose “trying out” all of them during the present 
season, and I am confidently looking forward to 
proving for myself everything that is claimed 
for them. 
As a general proposition we quite agree with 
the author’s contention that most fly manufac¬ 
turers make the under portion of the fly body 
much too dark and this is certainly contrary to 
what is nearly always found in Nature. “New 
Artificial Nature Lures,” which is the subject of 
the second part of this new book, should strongly 
appeal to such anglers as have not as yet taken 
up fly-fishing in preference to any other method, 
because the elementary scientific side of the sport 
of fishing is brought home to them in a com¬ 
prehensive and pleasing manner. 
Mr. Louis Rhead has written a most readable 
and instructive book; it is unique; it is the first 
of the kind to be published for the use of anglers 
about our native stream insects. It should prove 
of great value to all classes of anglers and more 
especially to those who fish with the feathered 
lure known as the artificial fly. We can truth¬ 
fully say that here is an angling book that should 
be read and not simply be placed upon a library 
shelf. 
“American Trout Stream Insects” is published 
by Frederick A. Stokes Company; it is of con¬ 
venient size and is gotten up in an attractive 
manner. The book contains 177 pages, 20 chap¬ 
ters, a colored frontisplate, 4 colored plates of 
stream insects and 10 plates in black and white. 
Chas. Zibeon Southard. 
RAMBLES OF A CANADIAN NATURALIST. By 
S. T. Wood, New York. E. P. Dutton & Co., $2.00 net. 
A very charming volume of some 250 pages, liberally 
illustrated, and containing a number of beautiful colored 
plates. The author, while a finished naturalist, writes 
in a popular, easy and essaylike style that leads the 
reader from one chapter to another until he may find 
that he has sat up later than he had intended. Excur¬ 
sions afield with an author like this are delightful, even 
in the form of a book. 
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MAROONED IN THE FOREST. By A. Hyatt Verrill, 
New York. Harper and Brothers, $1.25 net. 
We forego criticism of this book, confining ourselves 
to the explanation or description by the publishers, as 
follows: 
The thrilling story of a young man stranded in the 
forest who was forced to face nature with bare hands. 
What would you do if you were lost in the wilderness 
without supplies? That was what happened to this 
hero. Without food, fire, arms, matches, watch, or 
compass, how can he win his fight, for life? This tale 
of adventure will appeal to every lover of outdoor life, 
old or young. 
It is safe to say that no reader of Forest and Stream 
will ever undergo the experience which the author so 
deftly and plausibly sets forth—that is, if said reader 
has stored away and absorbed the scores of lessons 
touching on woodcraft that have appeared in these 
columns. Still, the book is well worth reading, if only 
to recall these lessons to mind. 
