My Fishing Days and Fishing Ways. By I. W. Martin.
(W. Brandon, Plymouth. ls. 10d., post-free.)—Mr. Martin is chiefly familiar with Midland streams,—witness his sobriquet of "The Trent Otter." He writes, it should be noted, of what the aristocrats of salmon- and trout-fishing call coarse-fish angling, and it may be said of him that, in' this province of sport, what "he knows not is not knowledge." Nor is he a fisher- man only. "There is more in fishing than catching fish." There is a great opportunity of watching Nature, an opportunity which comes to the coarse-fish angler' more than to any other sportsman. Waterside birds and butterflies especially come within his ken, and Mr. Martin has something to tell us about these and other creatures. Nor has he neglected other studies. To many people it will be news that.. the date of one ferry over the Trent (Littleborough, a little above Gainsborough) is as early as 138 A.D. We could say much about this book did occasion serve, but we must be content with warmly commending it to readers interested in the subject. Salmon-and trout-fishing is now for rich men only ; but the poor have yet a chance of seeing something of the humbler kinds of sport.
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