Wet-Fly Fishing. By E. M. Tod. (Sampson Low, Marston, and
Co. 6s. net.)—It is very kind of an expert in the art and science of anglers to tell his secrets to the unlearned. They will, it is true, fail to reap the full profit from them. For, after all, the greater part of practical knowledge is incommunicable. There are emer- gencies in which only ever-present common-sense can be of any use, emergencies in which rules have to be given up and new methods tried. Mr. Tod tells an illustrative story of how he left, much to a keeper's astonishment, a place where the trout were rising freely, but, as he saw, not rising for him, and filled his basket satisfactorily in a place where not a fin could be seen to stir. Still, something may be learnt by any one who keeps an . open mind, and there is anyhow the pleasure of reading a charm- ing little book.
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