=Glasgow Herald=:—"Decidedly interesting and amusing. It is gracefully and lightly written ... he tells the story ... with much quiet and quaint humour.... No angler should be without this excellent little book." =The Whitehall Review=:—"This is one of the most charming little books we have met with for some time." =The St. Stephen's Review=:—"No more charming little work than this has been published for many a day." =Army and Navy Gazette=:—"A very pleasant little book." =Daily Chronicle=:—"An entertaining little book." =Civil Service Gazette=:—"This charming and interesting little book." =The Bookseller=:—"A dainty little volume.... The author tells in a most charmingly simple style.... There is much quiet humour in the book.... The dedication is a little gem in its way." =The Literary World=:—"Others besides anglers will read with interest this pleasant record of a holiday." =The Sunday Times= says:—"One of those charming little _quasi-extempore_ books.... We have enjoyed a very pleasant hour in reading." =The Publishers' Circular=:—"All lovers of this picturesque scenery will welcome this fresh and natural tribute to its merits." =Lloyd's Weekly=:—"A genial, pleasant little book, written in the happiest vein." =The Derby Mercury= says:—"We have read no pleasanter book of its kind.... Always genial, sometimes humorous, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes playful, and invariably readable, displaying, though without parade, the signs of considerable culture." =Exeter and Plymouth Gazette=:—"This is not the sort of bookmaker that the critic impales upon his hook. We hail him as the pleasant companion whose pleasant chat and merry companionship will beguile the hot hours," &c. =The Weekly Dispatch=:—"A dainty little book by a disciple of Izaak Walton, who shows himself not unworthy to be named with his master, alike for steady handling of a line and for rambling use of a neat pen. He gossips pleasantly about the ins and outs of a corner of Derbyshire." =Land and Water=:—"This is a very charming little book.... One of the brightest which we have read for many a long day, and we look forward to the publication of some more letters from the author." =Spectator=:—"He 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." =The Banner=:—"Tells most charmingly his successes as well as his failures." =Decoration=:—"Out of very slight materials, by sheer charm of style, the author has succeeded in making a very fascinating book.... The author shows a cultured taste." =Warrington Guardian=:—"An entertaining series of sketches." =Bath Herald=:—"His descriptions of scenery and places of note are forcible without being laboured."