Press Opinions on " Broadland Sport" — contd. 



modestly disclaims the title of artist-author : the value of his 

 book, though it certainly smacks more of actuality than of art, 

 is increased rather than diminished by the occasional amateur- 

 ishness of its author, for this very amateurishness stamps it far 

 more as a true record than any polishin.q- or elaborate phrase- 

 making could have done. Something of the guide-book, some- 

 thing of the sportsman's diary, something of the would-be 

 sportsman's handbook, it forms a complete, lucid, and welcome 

 exponent of the sports and pastimes practised on or around 

 the lagoons, waterways, and marshes of East Anglia, and at the 

 same time is replete with hints that will serve the sportsman in 

 all lands. The two chapters devoted to yachting are quite 

 a feature of the production, tracing as they do its origin and 

 gradual development, and giving details of every boat of im- 

 portance launched during the last hundred years, the history 

 of every yacht club, the supporters of yacht-racing, and much 

 matter concerning the owners of racing-yachts. Mr. Everitt is 

 evidently as keen about the sport of Broadland as Mrs. Battle 

 was upon her particular pastime, but his enthusiasm is kept 

 well within bounds, and he is never too assertive. He might 

 with safety, had he been so minded, have parodied Van Troll's 

 famous six-word chapter on Snakes in Iceland — ' There are no 

 snakes in Iceland' — with a page headed 'Concerning Broad- 

 land Sports Undealt with in this Book ' — ' There are no 

 Broadland sports undealt with in this book.'" 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 

 TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY. 



SPORT WITHOUT WORDS 



A series of Comic and Caricature Sketches, depicting various branches 

 of Sport, conducted in a manner perhaps too curious for Letterpress 

 description. 



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