Little Rivers. By Henry Van Dyke. (David Nutt.)—Mr. Van Dyke
has some pleasant reminiscences of wandering, fishing-rod in hand, by river and lake sides in his own country (the States), on the Continent, and in Scotland. When we say the " States " we must include Canada, for one of his journeys (made in a "horse yacht," otherwise a tow-boat) was on the Restigouche, the river which forms part of the boundary between Quebec and New Brunswick, and another in the Lake St. John country, the lake being the headwaters of the Saguenay river. The Saguenay yields a fish called the oudnaniche. Mr. Van Dyke was struck with the curious accuracy with which the voyageurs could guess their weight at first sight in the water. They were seldom out by so much as an ounce. On the Continent our traveller found Ins most grateful experiences in the Traun, a stream which traverses the Salts Kammergut. In our own islands he fished a stream in the Lews, and divers places in Sutherlandshire. It was in the Lews, in a stream which it is easy to recognise under
its pseudonym of the " Whitewater " (which, by the way, is more like a ditch than a stream), that he met the blissful experience of his first salmon. This is altogether a very pleasant volume.
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