Press Opinions on " Broadland Sport" — contd. 



"We know of no work, old or new, which fulfils its own 

 purpose so thoroughly. It is a book which appeals primarily 

 to the sportsman, but no one who loves the Broads merely from 

 an artistic point of view can fail to find interest on every page. 

 A volume crammed with accurate information and delightful 

 anecdote. " — Times. 



" Mr. Everitt's book contains a great deal of information on 

 the sport to be got among the waterways and lagoons of the 

 Eastern Counties, which are generally spoken of as the Norfolk 

 Broads. In this very attractive part of East Anglia about two 

 hundred miles of waterway and four thousand acres of lagoons 

 or inland waters are open to the yachtsman. Wherries, with 

 comfortable, and racing yachts, with uncomfortable, accommo- 

 dation may be hired at Norwich, Wroxham, and other places, 

 at the most reasonable charges. The shooting and the fishing 

 on the Broads are for the most part open to everyone. If the 

 wildfowling is not what it was, great catches of perch, bream, 

 and, in the winter, pike may still be made. Portions of Mr. 

 Everitt's book have ah-eady appeared in the Field Sind similar 

 newspapers, and now that they are put together, want of order 

 and some repetition rather spoil the book as a whole. In some 

 five-and-twenty chapters he discourses on pike and eel fishing ; 

 yachts and yacht racing from 1800 to 1900 ; shore shooting and 

 punt gunning ; the use of decoys and duck shooting. Other 

 chapters deal with various districts of the Broads, or describe 

 particular expeditions. There is a great deal in the book that 

 is useful and interesting to anyone who is planing an excursion, 

 and on the coarse fishing and wildfowling the author writes 

 with knowledge gained by experience. But the reader must 

 not expect a book of any literary merit. The style is inclined 

 to alternate between the high-flown and the facetious of the 

 local guide-book. If scientific names are used, they should be 

 used correctly, and we may point out that the bearded tit is not 

 now called by naturalists Calamophihis biannicus, nor is the 

 Latin name of the dabchick Menjus minor. Some persons may 

 also think that there are too many references to frequent and 

 liberal potations from the beer-jar and the whisky bottle." — The 

 spectator. 



" ' Broadland Sport ' is a very readable and interesting book, 

 but not more so than a score of others which we have had the 

 pleasure of receiving during the last twelve months. Good 

 shooting of all kinds is still to be had in Broadland ; and where- 

 ever the game is preserved and the shooting is to be hired, no 

 one on the lookout for some good mixed ground could do 



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