Family Feats ; or, the Old Home. By Mrs. Reginald
Bray. (Griffith, Farren, Okeden, and Welsh.)—Mrs. Bray tells here a number of adven- tures, founded on fact, she assures us, in every instance, which came in
the way of the members of a certain family, living somewhere among the Surrey Hills. A very happy family they seem to have been, though their servants, indoor and outdoor—the latter especially—mast have had a hard time, unless they happened to be endowed with peculiarly sweet tempers. The adventures are often very amusing, and always well told. We do not presume to doubt, but is Mrs. R. Bray quite sure about the pike that upset the coracle by charging it ? If this is so, a new terror is added to pike-fishing ; or, if we like to put it in another way, this kind of sport must rank henceforth among the more perilous and therefore nobler kinds. Can any salmon-fisher aver that his coracle in Severn or Dee was ever upset by a fish ?
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