Prairie and Forest. By Parker Gilmore—" libique." (W. H. Allen
and Co.)—Mr. Gilmore has given us here another of those volumes with which he is wont to tantalise less fortunate lovers of sport. He tells them how they may secure all sorts of birds, and beasts, and fishes, if only they can contrive to find themselves in some quite impossible region, Labrador, say, or the Rocky Mountains, at some quite impossible time of the year, May, for instance, or November, when Law Courts are sitting and schools and colleges in full term. This is making fun of unhappy people, who have a paltry six or eight weeks at just the worst time of the year for any purpose of the kind. Still, Mr. Gilmore's narratives, always brisk and pic- turesque, are a pleasure in themselves. It is, perhaps, but a pale and ineffectual image of the reality to catch a salmon in imagination ; but it is better than nothing; and we, at least, escape the amari aliquid which arises out of the middle fountain of the fisherman's delight, the mosquito, or the black fly. We can strongly recommend this en- tertaining volume. Mr. Gilmore has a well-established reputation as a sportsman of the first rank., with a gift for pleasant and intelligent narrative, and this book sustains it.
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