Fishing Experiences of Half-a.Century By Major F. Powell Hop- kins.
(Longmans.)—Major Hopkins began his career as an angler very well by catching a three-pound trout in a Cambridgeshire mill-pond, and he has pursued it with much success. The variety of his experiences make them peculiarly interesting. He has caught barbel in Ceylon, and poisoned his company by presenting them to the men, (This fish is often found to be unwholesome in this country.) In this island, too, be captured an alligator which had swallowed a child. Salmon, trout, pike, and many kinds of sea-fish have been taken by his rod and his line. He tells the story of his pursuit with much liveliness. The capture of a conger-eel which fairly drove both him and his companion out of the boat is one of the best of the author's adventures. In the end it was killed and found to weigh 172 lb., and was exhibited, to the great profit of the fishermen, as the " sea-serpent."
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