A Norwegian Ramble. By One of the Ramblers. (G P.
Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—The " Doctor " and the "Rambler" hailed from the States, and the Rambler was, further, a practiser of the arts of photographing and angling. They started their ramble at Christiania ; were pleased with what they saw, content with the manner in which they saw it, and with what they had to pay for their pleasure. He complains, indeed, of the boorish- ness of English sportsmen,—at least of some of them, for he makes exceptions. It is quite true that the angler is a jealous creature, and when he has rented a Norwegian salmon river at an up-to-date price this natural quality is likely to be exaggerated. But this is no novelty ; indeed, a story of Norwegian—might we not say of any P—travel is not likely to be without it. We observe one thing which we do not remember to have seen noticed before, that the brevity of the summer in these high latitudes causes a simultaneous ripening of many fruits which elsewhere have very dissimilar seasons.
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