6 MAY 1893, Page 28

In Gold and Silver. By George H. Ellwanger. (Appleton, New

York.)—In his first paper, "The Golden Rug of Kerman- gliAt," Mr: Ellwanger assumes a somewhat Monte-Cristo air. Only millionaires could buy rugs at such cost. The angling ex- periences, too, have something of the romantic kind. One has heard again and again of this mysterious secret by which some fishermen attract their prey. But has it any existence ? The only one that we ever heard of that seemed at all likely was got by boiling a heron's legs. Is there any attraction in the heron's legs that brings the fish about him ? There is something dis- tinctly picturesque about In Gold and Silver.