The Newfoundland Guide - Book. Edited by D. W. Prowse. (Bradbury, Agnew,
and Co. ls. net.)—The usual information about population, revenue, exports and imports, and the statistics generally supplied in such books are to be found. And there is something else, which to some people at least will be more interesting. For Newfoundland is a paradise of sport, or as much of a paradise as is possible in these days. Cariboo, salmon, sea-trout, and brown trout abound. The last are in incalculable quantities, for the lakes of the interior are never fished. The whole population of the island, it must be understood, lives on the coast, and the interior is almost a terra incognita. The cariboo is, of course, the principal game of the island. The heads are often magnificent. One of the contributors to the Guide- Book secured one of forty-nine points two or three years ago. The salmon are satisfactory, though the takes, recorded are not very remarkable, trr would not have been so regarded forty years ago, at least in the Western Isles of Scotland. (Sir Bryan and Lady Leighton caught on the Grand Cod Roy River thirty-nine salmon weighing 420 lb., an average of a little over 10 lb., in twenty days. There were also some grilse captured.) 0 mini praeteritos . . . ! We are glad to see • that the Newfoundland authorities are foreseeing enough to enforce close times for game' and fish. The rarer animals are absOlutely proteeted for some years to come. No moose or elk is to be killed before Jamiary 1st, 1912 ; no beaver before October 1st, 1907. The license to' cariboo costs $10; the fishing is quite free.
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