OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON 



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"Staghunting with the Devon and Somerset." 



The Times: 



Since Blackmore wrote " Lorna Doone," we 

 have read nothing- which gives a more vivid idea 

 of the picturesque romance and sullen desolation 

 of the wildest tracts in Southern England. Mr. 

 Evered, though profoundly versed in venery 

 and moorcraft, is something more than a zealous 

 sportsman. He knows every rood of the ground 

 and there could be no better guide to its beautie.5 

 or to its innumerable perils and man-traps. Ha 

 has a soul for scenery whether soft or sublime, 

 lie makes even the quag^mires with their rank 

 g-rowth and the stone strewn "g^raveyard " attrac- 

 tive, and the charms of the wooded combes 

 with the brawling brooks must be tempting alike 

 to the tourist and artist. The volume is profusely 

 illustrated with photographs of scenery, farm- 

 houses, hounds, hunters and country folk and 

 they are triumphs of the skilful use of the 

 camera. 



The Spectator : 



Mr. Evered knows the country and the 

 method of procedure thoroughly. His style is 

 more ag^reeable than the common run of sporting 

 writers, and he is imbued with a love of Exmoor, 

 and a delight in the indescribable pleasures of 

 the chase. 



The Literary World : 



.'> With Mr. Evered for a guide we accompanj- 



the "harbourer," we share in the "tufting," we 

 attend the brilliant meet at Cloutsham, we see 

 the stag up and away with a bound, we hear 

 the music of the pack, and admire the noble 

 brute at bay. 



The Guardian: 



His account is instinct with the life and reality and eager force that only come to a 

 writer who is dealing with a subject with which he is thoroughly familiar and which he 

 really loves. The illustrations are numerous enabling the reader to realize the beauty and 

 wildness of the haunts which the lordly red deer love. 



The iVIorning Post : 



Will be read with pleasure by all who have followed the famous pack of which it tells, and 

 to the inexperienced it furnishes a complete guide and handbook. 



The Pall Mall Gazette: 



The numerous photographs are remarkable for their subject matter, they include more 

 than one representation of a live and hunted deer. 



St. James Gazette : 



Mr. Evered writes not merely as one who rides to hounds, he is an observer of nature . . . 

 he deals with the subject altogether in a picturesque way and his book comprises many 

 interesting records of the famous Somerset Hunt. 



The World : 



Those who hold with that eccentric sportsman James Pigg that "there's nout like 

 fox hunting " are rather apt to look with slig^ht favour on the pursuit of wild red deer as being 

 "slow" and lacking- the excitement of jumping. They would probably be inclined to 

 modify their views on the subject after reading Mr. Evered's delightful book on Staghtmting 

 Txith the Devon atid Somerset. It is a book that will give pleasure not only to those who 

 love the chase, but to all who appreciate spirited accounts of wild sport amid wild 



surroundings it is scarcely too much to say that there is not from cover to cover a 



dull page in his book nor one that will not repay perusal. With a rare talent for picturesque 

 description Mr. Evered tells of the varying incidents of the chase, touches in with an 

 appreciative pen the local colouring that lends so much of its charm to the sport and the 

 scenes portrayed among the wooded combes and wild woodland of Devon come vividly 

 before the mind of the reader. 



