Abstract
THE first two of these books are not in any sense books of reference or guides for the angler; Mr. Gwynn frankly states that his object is not instruction but amusement, but it is no ground of complaint that the former as well as the latter is to be found in his descriptions of his fishing holidays. Mr. Hodgson's is a pleasantly trivial book, interesting as giving the views of an experienced fisherman on many points, but no more instructive, in fact, than Mr. Gwynn's in intention. The former is at his best when describing matters of his own observation; “the whustler” would take a lot of beating as a piece of pure narrative, and is almost on a level with Mr. Gwynn's best; it Calls for equal admiration in the vigour with which an almost Homeric battle is described, and the delicacy with which a veil is drawn over the undignified end of a noble fish, but it is scarcely possible to extend this admiration to the delicacy with which twenty-one of the author's friends and a daily newspaper are veiled in the obscurity of initialled dashes, which are frequently inadequate as a disguise and always typographically unsightly.
Trout Fishing.
By W. Earl Hodgson. Pp. xviii + 276. (London: A. and C. Black, 1904.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
Fishing Holidays.
By Stephen Gwynn. Pp. ix + 299. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
An Angler's Year.
By Charles S. Patterson. Pp. xii + 192. (London: W. R. Russell and Co., Ltd., n.d.) Price 2s. 6d.
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B., L. Trout Fishing Fishing Holidays An Angler's Year . Nature 70, 3 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070003a0
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