* * * * Mr. Hugh Copley's The Letters of
Two Fishermen (Warne, Os.) rings the changes on the catching of coarse fish in the English Midlands and strange fish in Nigeria with angling for heavyweights off the Lagos coast. The Trent and the Benue make a curious team, but the book is readable chatty stuff, and contains at the end of it some practical directions for angling outfit in West African waters, salt and fresh. The author naively notes that in Nigerian rivers waders are not required, and one can quite understand that they are not the •
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wear for waters which hold crocodiles. Is ." similiar " the now recognized spelling ? In his second book, which we shall be glad to meet, Mr. Copley might perhaps return to the old style, and might also amend the mis-spellings, Siluloid and Cephalphus (pp. 135-6).
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