1 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 23

An Amateur Angler in Dove Dale. (Sampson Low and Co.)—"

How I Spent my Three Weeks' Holiday," is the second title of this little volume. The writer makes no pretences or attempts to disguise the truth. He was, he frankly says, an "amateur," by which he means a "novice," and he fared as a novice might be expected to fare in an English trout stream,—i.e., be caught not quite one trout per week. Bat be seems to have got a good deal of pleasure out of his fishing ; and something of this he is good enough to communicate to his readers.