FISHING BOATS AND BARGES. By C. A. Wilkinson and Walter
Wood. (John Lane. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. C. A. Wilkinson is happy hi his twenty woodcuts of various English• fishing boats and barges contained in this handsome volume. Everyone who sails the seas will admit that Mr. Wilkinson has caught most of the vessels at a characteristic moment. In depicting a boat that is quite as necessary as in the case of a human being. The letterpress by Mr. Walter Wood is unfortunately not worthy of the illustrations. Brief descriptions in large type should be a kind of precious distillation ; there is no room for barely relevant anecdote. Talking round and about belongs to a different medium altogether, and it is particularly unfortunate here, as we are told all too little about the vessels themselves. It is amazing how almost every fishing port has its own model and its own rig. These things persist—mercifully- like the dialects of counties over which the ploughshare of education runs in vain.
Previous page
