Shooting and Fishing Trips. By "Wildfowler," "Snapshot." 2 vols. (Chapman
and Hall.)—The author has gathered his shooting ex- periences from a field of considerable extent—"England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and Bavaria" are the countries which he enumerates on his title-page. His "fishing trips" have been confined within narrower limits. The fishing is indeed almost wholly sea-fishing, an amusement which has for the most part to be pursued under consider- able difficulties. It is not every one who can stand being rocked in a little boat. Then, at many common sea-side resorts there are not, or the fishermen pretend that there are not—and it is astonishing how un- willing the fishermen are to go out—any fish. Altogether there is much to be learnt on this matter from the author, who will earn the thanks of many for partial relief from the intolerable monotony of sea- side life. Some of his experiences in this line are such as it would be quite worth while trying to repeat. The shooting trips we shall leave, not feeling much at home in the subject. We will only remark that the writer is manifestly an enthusiast, and that enthusiasts, in sport, as in other things, are always worth attending to. As to the effect of the book on the whole, we are bound to say that it is a little tedious, even when the subject is interesting. Such papers are attrac- tive enough in a newspaper, but massed together in a volume they try the patience at least of the average reader, to a hazardous extent. This, however, does not interfere with their practical utility, which we imagine to be considerable.
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