Of the Mill. By the Right Rev. G. F. Browne.
(Smith and Elder.)—The Bishop of Stepney republishes some papers which he contributed some years ago to the Alpine Club Journal, and others published in the National Review and Cornhilt Magazine. The gem of the collection, in the view of the writer of this notice, is "A Night with a Salmon." The author hooked a huge fish soon after noon on an October day, and had it on for nearly twelve hours. Everything that could be done was done ; but it was not to be ; the minnow came away ; and, as the Bishop remarks, "neither Jimmy [the glllie] nor the fisherman will ever get over it." If, as seems likely, the monster was a fish of 74 lb. caught next year in the net, it was an irremediable loss. The writer of this notice is not ignarus mali; but this was an awful experience. Bigger fish, tarpon, and mahseer, have, we believe, been caught, but a salmon so large, never. A particularly interesting and entertaining article, "Archaeological Fraud in Palestine," should be mentioned. This is more the line that the Bishop has to take now. As he pathetically remarks, d propos of a caution about artificial minnows, "I know very little about minnows now."
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