CONCLUSION.
Brother of the gentle art, we bid you farewell! We have done our best to
give you the benefit of our experience in the peaceful pursuit of
loch-fishing; and if we have said too much or too little, pray excuse
us, and in your goodness of heart reprove us for our verbosity, and tell
us what is awanting. The spirit on our part has been very willing; but
the memory may have been defective when it should have been most active,
and quite possibly our love for the art may have somewhere or another
led us into discursiveness where we should have been brief. We are all
human, and he is a poor mortal who thinks he cannot err. Again we say
farewell!--not for long, however, we hope. Who knows where we may meet?
If we do, and you recognise us, don't forget to give us a little
encouragement, and, if you can, new material for extending the
usefulness of this publication. As we write, the hand of winter is upon
us, and the rod and reel have been relegated to safe quarters; but
spring will return, and the enforced cessation of our enjoyment will
only add new zest to the music of the reel
"When green leaves come again."
PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS.
LATELY PUBLISHED, FIFTH EDITION, REVISED.
THE MOOR AND THE LOCH.
CONTAINING MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS IN ALL HIGHLAND SPORTS,
WITH WANDERINGS OVER CRAG AND CORRIE,
FLOOD AND FELL.
BY JOHN COLQUHOUN.
2 vols. post 8vo, with Two Portraits and other Illustrations. 26s.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"In the present delightful volumes, however, he presents all lovers
of Scotland with the completest details of every Highland sport, on all
of which he is an unexceptionable authority; and with what many will
value even more, a series of life-like sketches of the rarer and more
interesting animals of the country. He has thus brought up to the
present level of knowledge the history of all the scarce birds and
beasts of Scotland.... Henceforth it must necessarily find a place
in the knapsack of every Northern tourist who is fond of our
wild creatures, and is simply indispensable in every Scotch
shooting-lodge."--_Academy._
"We should recommend fishers to study carefully all the chapters on
fishing for salmon, loch trout, sea trout, and yellow trout, whatever
may be their experience or erudition. They will find general hints of
immense use which they can apply to that local knowledge of their own
river or 'water' which no books can teach, and which Mr Colquhoun
himself would equally have to learn. But no chapter ought to be skipped,
even by a reader who aspires to far less than the fourfold distinction
of a Highland hunter, which consists in killing a red-deer, an eagle, a
salmon, and a seal."--_Saturday Review._
"The book is one written by a gentleman for gentlemen, healthy in tone,
earnest in purpose, and as fresh, breezy, and life-giving as the
mountain air of the hills amongst which the sport it chronicles is
carried on."--_The World._
"One of those rare and delightful books which, with all the fulness of
knowledge, breathe the very freshness of the country, and either console
you in your city confinement, or make you sigh to be away, according to
the humour in which you happen to read it."--_Blackwood's Magazine._
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LATELY PUBLISHED.
A HANDBOOK OF DEER-STALKING.
BY ALEXANDER MACRAE,
Late Forester to Lord Henry Bentinck.
WITH INTRODUCTION BY HORATIO ROSS, ESQ.
Fcap. 8vo, with Two Photos. from Life. 3s. 6d.
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general reader."--_United Service Gazette._
"The writer of this valuable little book speaks with authority, and sums
up in a few pages hints on deer-stalking which the experience of a
lifetime has enabled him to put forth.... We can only recommend every
one who pursues the fascinating sport of which the author writes, to
glance through, and indeed to read carefully, this handbook."--_Sporting
and Dramatic News._
"An interesting little book, alike because of the knowledge which its
author displays of his subject, and of the simple style in which it is
written. It is a handbook such as sportsmen must have long
desired."--_Scotsman._
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OF
CHRISTOPHER NORTH.
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"Welcome, right welcome, Christopher North; we cordially greet thee in
thy new dress, thou genial and hearty old man, whose 'Ambrosian Nights'
have so often in imagination transported us from solitude to the social
circle, and whose vivid pictures of flood and fell, of loch and glen,
have carried us in thought from the smoke, din, and pent-up opulence of
London, to the rushing stream or tranquil tarn of those
mountain-ranges."--_Times._
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Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant
and dialect spellings remain as printed. Hyphenation has been
standardised.