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8 Books PuUished by 'William Blackwood and Sons.
The Angler's Companion to the Kivers
AND LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. By Thomas Tod Stoddart. In
post 8vo price 10s. 6d. With a Fishing Map of Scotland, and other
Illustrations.
" Indispensable in all time to come, as the very strength and grace of an Angler's Tackle and
Equipment in Scotland, must and will be ' Stoddart's Angler's Companion.'" — Blackivood's
Magazine.
"" Without a second's pause of hesitation, we pronounce the book the best extant as an angling guide
to the salmon and trout waters of Scotland, and particularly to the famous Tweed and its many tribu-
taries Every angler who has an ambition to become an adept in the art of killing trout
and salmon by means of rod and line, should peruse assiduously Mr Stoddart's work." — Bell's Life.
" Pleasant it is to wander by the loch and stream with such a guide and companion as Mr Stoddart."
—Athcnceum.
" The author is a perfect enthusiast in ' the gentle craft,' and the matter seems chiefly drawn from
his own experience. A peculiar feature of the book is its detailed account of the Scottish lochs and
rivers, with their tributaries. This feature renders The Angler's Companion a necessary volume to any
one contemplating a piscatorial excursion in Scotland, independently of its general use as a book of
instructions." — Spectator.
Lays of the Deer-Forest. A Selection
from the Original Poems of Jolui SoMesM Stuart and Charles
Edward Stuart. With an Essay on Deer-Stalking and Eoe-Hunting,
Notes of Remarkable Incidents in Forest Sports, Traditions of the
Clans, and Notices of Natural History in the Deer-Forests. In Two
Volumes, Post Octavo, price 21s.
" This is, we have no hesitation in saying, the bast work on deer-stalking which has yet been written ;
and the amount of information which it contains regarding the habits of the stag and roe, combined with
the vivid pictures of which we have made such ample use, cannot fail to render it popular. In an anti-
quarian point of view it is also highly interesting, for it embodies a large amount of traditionary lore,
sketches of the clans, and fragments of Highland song, of much superior merit to those which have hitherto
come into our hands. The disquisitions, too, upon the disappearance of some animals once indigenous
to Scotland — such as the wolf, the elk, the wild bull, and the beaver — exhibit a great amountof research,
and supply a gap which has long been wanted in the page of natural history." — Blackwood's Magazine.
"Rich with a thousand excellencies, with traits of natural history in its most attractive department,
and poetised by the ardent language of keenand hereditary sportsmen." — Morning Chronicle.
Recreations of Christopher ISTorth.
In Three Volumes, Post Octavo, price £1, lis. 6d.
" Welcome, right welcome, Christopher North ; we cordially gi-eet thee in thy new dress, thou genial
and hearty old man, whose ' Ambrosian nights ' have so often in imagination transported us from soli-
tude to the social circle, and whose vivid pictures of flood and fell, of loch and glen, have carried us in
thought from the smoke, din, and pent-up opulence of London, to the rushing stream, or tranquil tarn,
or those mountain ranges," &c. — Times.
"Delightful volumes — full of fun and fervour, power and pathoS' — of deep feeling and light-hearted
gaiety — of impassioned language, rolling along in the strength and majesty of genuine eloquence — and of
familiar gossip, tripping it lightly over the merrier pages."— Scotsman.
The Moor and the Loch: containing
Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, from the Eed-Deer and
Wild Swan, Salmon, and Salmo-Ferox, to the Snipe, Teal, and Burn
Trout. With remarks upon the Wild Birds and Beasts of the Scottish
Mountain. By John Colquhoun, Esq. A New Edition, being the
Third, with which is incorporated « ROCKS AND RIVERS," by the
same Author. In One Voh, with Illustrations, price 12s. 6d.
" Mr Colquhoun is one of the increasing class of naturalist sportsmen who combine an ardent love
and nice observation of nature Avith surpassing skill in the deatli-dealing art. Of the various amateurs
we remember, he is facile princeps, from the solidity of his matter, and the native power of his style.
He has the prejudices of his craft and his Highland home ; but t'aey are the genuine feelings of his
mind, not a taste simulated to spin a paragraph or point a period. As a sportsman he strikes us as of
the first class, owing to the variety of his pursuits. Nothing comes amiss to him. In deer-stalking or
roebuck-shooting he is at home ; all that haunt the ' Moor and the Loch,' with the River m addition
— whether of gi'ouse or other game, fish or waterfowl— all are within his dominion." — Spectator.