Abstract
HERE is a book full of quiet charm and humour, written by one who is evidently not only an artist and a sportsman, but also a true lover and observer of Nature and her ways. The angler will be fascinated by the vivid descriptions of trout-and salmon-fishing in Brittany. There are no improbable fisherman's yarns to invite his scepticism, but their place is taken by some delightful stories of saints and miracles drawn from the Breton folk-lore, so that the book appeals quite as much to the general reader as to the piscatorial fraternity. It is a pleasant narrative, well suited to while away a winter evening at the fireside and to conjure up visions of sunlit meadows, fragrant pinewoods, and murmuring streams, though tinged, alas ! by that vein of sadness which must colour the day-dreams of all of us at the present time, and especially of those who, like the author, have witnessed at close quarters the tragedy of the last few years.
Golden Days from the Fishing-Log of a Painter in Brittany.
Romilly
Fedden
By. Pp. xviii + 233. (London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1919.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Golden Days from the Fishing-Log of a Painter in Brittany . Nature 104, 391 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104391b0
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