The Sportsman's and Tourist's Guide to the Rivers, Lochs, and
Shootings of Scotland. May. Edited by J. Watson Lyall. (The Office, 52 Fleet Street.)—This is a useful guide, published monthly during the season, which many whose thoughts are turning north- wards, and who are enjoying in anticipation a Highland holiday, will find -very serviceable. First, it gives us time-tables of all the railways either in or leading to Scotland, and a list of " Sailings of steamers to and from places in Scotland." Then follows a list of " Shootings and salmon-fishings of Scotland," with the name, the post-town, the proprietor and factor, the tenant, and the rent paid. This last item sometimes makes us open our oyes. The total is enor- mous—half a million, we should say, speaking roughly—and this does not reckon the sporting value of lands occupied by owners. Part of one deer-forest lets for more than four thousand a year. Then comes what will be to most readers the most interesting part of the volume. As for deer-forests and grouse-moors,—non cuiris conti»git ; but we can all hope for trout-fishing. Owners, too, and tenants, who would regard you with a stony stare if you asked for a day with their grouse, and certainly think you mad if you suggested a shot at a stag, will cheer- fully give leave almost unlimited for brown trout, and even a chance for a salmon. Hero we have a detailed account of every river, stream, and loch of any importance at all, even of any size; of the sport to be got, the manner of getting it, the lures to be used, &re. This account is tinged, we are bound to say, with just a little co:ricer-de-rose, but is, on the whole, we doubt Lot, trustworthy. Our limited experience goes to confirm it. The experience of the editor could, we suppose, hardly be excelled. His "Sportsman's Guide" is a most useful publication.
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