We are glad to meet a second edition of The
Way of a Trout with a Fly (Black, 7s. 6d.), by Mr. Skues, orthodox apostle of the pure milk of the dry-fly word, which appears side by side with Major Kenneth Dawson's Salmon and Trout in Moorland Streams (Jenkins, illustrated, 7s. 6d.). " Moorland Streams "—the thought and the thing is a haunting charm of ring-ouzels and white-waistcoated dippers, of red rowan- berries, and of mysterious peat-black dubs that may hold anything from the comely salmon which figures in the frontispiece, to the big-headed lanky little cannibal trout who is far better out of the water. To read Major Dawson's workmanlike and alluring book (most of us know him better as " West Country ") is the next best thing to going back there, and if we do go back and do on a gin-clear water think of trying the dry fly, it is consoling to hear that " the much- feared drag is a factor of but little importance, since it is a spectacle to which the trout are thoroughly accustomed."
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