The Story of Fish Life. By W. P. Pycraft. (G.
Newnes. is.) —This is one of the very interesting "Library of Useful Stories." Mr. Pycraft has already written about birds, and he now conducts us through another province of Nature. There are many curious things in his "story," and not a few which will be new to all but experts. "Fifty species of electrical fishes known to science" I Among these are some British skates ; but facile princeps in power is our old friend the gymnotus. Third in order comes the torpedo, which, indeed, has power enough to secure its prey. One observer found a salmon between four and five pounds in weight in the stomach of one of them. 10f course the treat- ment of the subject is mainly scientific. The fisherman, how- ever, may pick up some hints here and there. "How Fishes Feed," for instance, will be found a profitable chapter. A hungry fish may be taken at any time and by anybody. To lure the indifferent, —hie labor, hoc opus est.
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