4 JUNE 1887, Page 24

Angling Reminiscences of the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland. By

Thomas Tod Stoddart. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—This is a new edition, published fifty years after the first appearance of the work. It is for the most part written in the dialogue fashion, and, we are bound to say, is not very happy in its imitation of Isaac Walton. The chief interest of the book to the angler of to day is, of course, his- toricaL They will find that half-a-century ago, Mr. Steddart was complaining of the interference of the landed proprietors with the angling rights—or quasi-righte—of the public. Now it is not a ques- tion of angling, but of walking, so that we are driven to Bills for legalising "Access to Mountains" and the like.