25 APRIL 1896, Page 12

Water Tramps ; or, The Cruise of the 'Sea - Bird.' By

George Herbert Bartlett. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is an enter- taining, and, in a way, fascinating story of a vacation of four students. The way in which they catch fish, blue-fish and bass, and sell them is highly attractive. They hire a little yacht, and catch enough to pay expenses. One catch they sell for more than £11 ! This is a thing that they manage better on the other side of the Atlantic than on this. Here the amateur fisherman finds that his fish cost money instead of bringing it in. "For two months," says the trader Harold, " we have lived by our wits. We still have thirty dollars in the treasury." And they had caught wives as well as fish. This is a very fresh and amusing book.