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NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
Shooting, Yachting and Sea-fishing Trips at Home and on the 
Continent. By “ WILDFOWLER,” “SNAPSHOT.” 2 vols, 8vo. 
Chapman and Hall. 1877. 
A Book on wildfowl-shooting comes to hand opportunely in the 
month of January,* and if the weather is not sufficiently favourable 
to hold out much hope of sport, there is some consolation to be 
found in looking forward to a change for the better, and in reading, 
over a comfortable fire, the adventures and advice of “ Wild- 
fowler.” 
Those who have already made acquaintance with his two former 
volumes, which were published a year or more ago, will be prepared 
for much that appears in these, and the reader who is fond of marsh 
and coast shooting, with an occasional turn at sea-fishing, will find 
a good deal to amuse him in these reminiscenees of an enthusiastic 
sportsman. , 
It may be thought by some that there is rather too much 
sameness in the account which the author gives of his varied 
expeditions, and that one good book on the subject (as the “ first 
series” undoubtedly was) is better than two. On the other hand, 
the author does not go over the same ground, or water, but 
“changes the venue” both at home and abroad, and many who are 
as enthusiastic as himself will doubtless be disposed to think that 
they cannot have too much of a good thing. 
Without actually reproducing some of his sketches, for which 
we regret that we have not space at our disposal, we can scarcely 
do the author justice; but we may remark that although his heart 
is evidently in the lonely svipe-marsh, or the saltings and sand- 
hills by the sea (where the variety of birds to be met with at 
certain seasons, the uncertainty of what will get up next, and the 
rapid, twisting, snipe-like flight of these denizens of the marsh, 
‘ ombine to render this kind of rongh shooting peculiarly attractive), 
he has by uo means neglected the claims which every species of 
winged and four-footed game possesses in the eyes of sportsmen. 
The subject of Grouse-shooting, Partridge-driving, or Snipe- 
shooting in Ireland, is now somewhat “hackneyed,” and there is 
* This notice was written in January last, and has stood over ever since for 
want of space.—Eb. 
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