THE RELIGIOUS ANECDOTES OF SCOTLAND. Edited by William Adamson, D.D. Thick Post 8vo. Price 5s.
A voluminous collection of purely religious anecdotes relating to Scotland and Scotchmen, and illustrative of the more serious side of the life of the people. The anecdotes are chiefly in connection with distinguished Scottish clergymen and laymen, such as Rutherford, Macleod, Guthrie, Shirra, Leighton, the Erskines, Knox, Beattie, M’Crie, Eadie, Brown, Irving, Chalmers, Lawson, Milne, M’Cheyne, &c., &c. The anecdotes are serious and religious purely, and not at all of the ordinary witty description. [[2]]
DAYS OF DEER STALKING in the Scottish Highlands, including an account of the Nature and Habits of the Red Deer, a description of the Scottish Forests, and Historical Notes on the earlier Field Sports of Scotland. With Highland Legends, Superstitions, Folk-Lore, and Tales of Poachers and Freebooters. By William Scrope. Illustrated by Sir Edwin and Charles Landseer. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.
“The best book of sporting adventures with which we are acquainted.”—Athenæum.
“Of this noble diversion we owe the first satisfactory description to the pen of an English gentleman of high birth and extensive fortune, whose many amiable and elegant personal qualities have been commemorated in the diary of Sir Walter Scott.”—London Quarterly Review.
DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING in the River Tweed. By William Scrope. Illustrated by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson, and Edward Cooke. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.
“Mr. Scrope’s book has done for salmon fishing what its predecessor performed for deer stalking.”—London Quarterly Review.
“Mr. Scrope conveys to us in an agreeable and lively manner the results of his more than twenty years’ experience in our great Border river.… The work is enlivened by the narration of numerous angling adventures, which bring out with force and spirit the essential character of the sport in question.… Mr. Scrope is a skilful author as well as an experienced angler. It does not fall to the lot of all men to handle with equal dexterity, the brush, the pen, and the rod, to say nothing of the rifle, still less of the leister under cloud of night.”—Blackwood’s Magazine.
THE FIELD SPORTS OF THE NORTH OF EUROPE. A Narrative of Angling, Hunting, and Shooting in Sweden and Norway. By Captain L. Lloyd. New edition. Enlarged and revised. Demy 8vo. Price 9s.
“The chase seems for years to have been his ruling passion, and to have made him a perfect model of perpetual motion. We admire Mr. Lloyd. He is a sportsman far above the common run.”—Blackwood’s Magazine.