14 DECEMBER 1929, Page 35

A large and very varied experience of angling has gone

to the making of Major G. L. Ashley Dodd's A Fisherman's Log (Constable. 10s.), but the pleasure of reading is somewhat marred by the book's pontifical tone, and by the too frequent occurrence of the phrase " I personally." However, if the art of angling can be taught by the written word, the specially

didactic chapters in the book should enable the tiro to graduate with honours. Some very pleasing woodcuts adorn the volume. * * *