23 SEPTEMBER 1893, Page 24

Practical Ply-Pishing. By John Beever. Edited by A. and A.

R. Severn. (Methuen.)—This book was written and published more than forty years ago. The author lived near Coniston Lake, and was a remarkably skilful angler, besides being a keen observer of Nature. His book has been put, by common consent of persons qualified to judge, in a high place among angling literature. It is, in an eminent degree, what it professes to be,—" practical." The editors have made such additions as were necessary to bring it up to date.