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"his divers satisfactions a little tame ; but their cumulative effect is much more pleasing than anight be supposed, and one begins to wonder whether after all there is not something artful in the combination of pleasantness and slight pom tless. -ness That question is, in fact, one justfhca- +m for noticing a book which should not, in Itself, be a concern of N. & Q. What are those subjects, what the temper to suffuse them with, which make a book good to look back on just aa. certain undistinguished days remain good to look

ba Themost n^v^chapters are the seven or eight dealing with South African fishing, which, besides Entertainment, contain much useful information and good counsel for any brother cf the rod preparing to go out and try his luck with South African trout. Among the best things in the 'book we thought the accounts of fishing snatched during the Boer War and the last Great War both -by officers and men. Sport in war-time is worth chronicling and we confess that Mr. Bennion has shown us that in the midst of war the angler proves himself more alert and persevering, and accom- plishes greater things than we had realised.

Bits of an angler's philosophy naturally crop up in manv places" Always have a care with the first cast of the day," is one we found much to our liking. We have learned from our author a phrase new to us and expressive. "The little river " he says, " had character. It sang a song as it went, it * showed willing ' as the homely -saying goes." __

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RICHARD JOHN FYNMORE.

"WITH great regret we learn the death of Colonel Fynmore, one of our oldest and most valued correspondents. It occurred at Sandgate on the 1 2th inst. in his 82nd year. Colonel Fynmore was well-known in Kent as an authority on local history, and leaves behind him a considerable body of work of permanent value. The entries under his name in our own Indexes bear witness to his knowledge and enthusiasm as an antiquary. At the same time a glance at them recalls his interest in by-ways of literature, and reveals the stores of notes on curious topics which he had accumulated much to the profit of his fellow- Teaders. Of late years his contributions had become less frequent owing to ill-health, but an occasional item from his pen, appearing within the last month or two attests the continuance of his interest both in his favourite topics and in '

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