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."