The Fisherman's Magazine. Nos. I. and II. April and May.
Edited by Cholmondeley PennelL (Chapman and HalL)—Fishermen are no longer to be "the only opulent and powerful body in the kingdom dependent on charity for their literature." Ordinary sporting journals give them neither space enough nor attention enough, so they have started a special organ. Certainly it commences well. Mr. Pennell is a host in himself as editor. And excellent illustrations assist the letter text in conveying clear ideas as to the shape of hooks and the form of flies. Careful papers on pike-fishing form the most noticeable feature of these numbers, but the editor does not confine his magazine to merely practical subjects ; the fishery laws, pisciculture at home and abroad, and the pollution of rivers, each forms the subject of an in- teresting and intelligent article.
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