19 JANUARY 1889, Page 23

We have received a reissue of John Major's edition of

The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. (John C. Nimmo.) To this has been added The Practical Fly-Fisher, by John Jackson, with a list of flies, directions for their manufacture, and hints for their use, illustrated by ten plates containing as many as one hundred representations of the insect which is imitated and of the imitation. To the Complete Angler is prefixed an etched portrait of Walton, and some seventy other illustrations, drawings of landscapes, portraits, &c.—We have also to acknowledge a new edition of Lives of Indian Officers, by Sir J. W. Kaye. 2 vols. (W. H. Allen and Co.)