30 NOVEMBER 1907, Page 26

Days Of By Henry Van Dyke. (Hodder and Stoughton. 613.)

—The chief employment of Mr. Van Dyke'a "days off" seems to be fishing. This sport he describes with not a little gusto. Hells, even inclined to sympathise with the resolute angler whose passion for the sport cost him a bride who was both a beauty and the daughter of a millionaire ; but then she belonged to a humanitarian league, if that is the right name for an association which anathe- matises anglers. All this—and there are other papers in which the same subject occurs—makes pleasant reading. It is good also to see an American's appreciation of the Quantock Hills. Altogether, this is a readable book, but it would have been more prudent not to invite, as on p. 37, a comparison with Charles Lamb.