| + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 520w. |
“It aims at something good; it partly achieves that something; yet it drags. For it is overweighted with talk ... and errs by excess of quaint fancy. The author has done himself most credit in his characters. He has as obviously written the book to please himself. But he will please many others, too, for whom a bit of learned fooling along with some real human nature and some rude human humor does not spoil even if it ‘scotches’ a good story.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w. |
“It is a fine stirring narrative, not without crudities, and there is some good character-drawing, which redeems it from superficiality. The style has spirit and charm, and Mr. Sheppard is a master of that kind of allusive writing which is best suited to the historical romance. The chief faults are diffuseness and an occasional sentimentality, which were perhaps inevitable in a first book.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 180w. |
Sheringham, Hugh T. Angler’s hours. $1.50. Macmillan.
Anecdotes of fishing expeditions, bits of advice and some philosophy are found in these pleasing papers by a fisherman on British streams.
| + | Acad. 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w. |
“It is a long time since we had a book about angling in which practical hints were so takingly varied with admirably penned pictures of the delightful surroundings of the art.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 620w. |