Exmoor Streams. By Claude F. Wade. (Chatto and Windus. 5s.
net.)—Mr. Wade frankly confesses that if he had expected to fish much more for Devonshire trout, he might have hesitated to give these "tips." As it is, he feels himself growing old, and hands the torch, so to speak, to others. His directions to the angler where fish may be found, and how they may be got at, are very minute. With this book in hand no one who knows his business at all should go astray. The right plan to follow, if only time could be spared, would be to take a careful preliminary survey of the ground, quartering it, if the phrase may be allowed, and then following up the knowledge thus gained. There is a supple- mentary chapter on sea-fishing, sometimes a serviceable alter- native, for the weather that suits the one kind of sport does not suit the other. There are some good and useful illustrations, such as may well tempt a man to go, and help him when he is there.
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