18 OCTOBER 1890, Page 26

Sketches of British Sporting Fish, by John Watson (Chapman and

Hall), consists of a collection of river-side jottings and notes,

as well as some interesting matter about the stew-ponds of days of old, well-nigh a thing of the past. The majority of people, with no great taste for fresh-water fish as we see them, may say, "No great loss either." He does not say enough, we think, about the tench for table purposes, and, from a naturalist's point of view, the most interesting of all the pond-fish. .