angler to read. Mr. Green has had no exceptional experiences
as to the character or the locality of his sport. He began with such bumble sport as the ordinary ponds and streams of a Midland county supply, learned to catch trout in Wales (it is always an excellent thing to learn in a difficult school), and improved and extended his knowledge in Ireland, Scotland, and elsewhere. Some of his treating expeditions took him to places with which the present writer is familiar, and are obviously genuine and unexaggerated narrative, though they seem, for the most part, to refer to days when the angler was not quite so frequent as be is now, even in the remoter High- lands. The natural-history portion of the volume has to do chiefly with birds, butterflies, and moths. There are a few notes on sea-fishing, a sport which, though it is peculiarly liable to weather uncertainties (the weather often making it absolutely impossible), is otherwise more generally remunerative than sport in fresh water. This is a very pleasing volume.
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