30 DECEMBER 1865, Page 19

By the Loch and the River Side. (Edmonston and Douglas,

Edin- burgh.)—We have here an amusing collection of pen-and-ink sketches illustrating the troubles that beset an angler, enthusiastic or otherwise, on the banks of or, as is often the case, in the Scotch lakes and rivers. They, the troubles or the sketches, are thirty-nine in number, rough enough, but humorous mostly. The draughtsman's hand is a firm one, and at times very happy, and the result is as laughable a sot of comi- calities as we have seen this Christmas.