The ` Falcon' in the Baltic. By E. F. Knight.
(W. H. Allen and Co.)—The Falcon' was a three-ton yacht. Mr. Knight took her for a trip among the Norfolk Broads in the first yeir of his owner- ship, and then made the voyage which he describes in this volume, crossing the North Sea to Rotterdam, and then visiting, among other places, the Zuyder Zee, the Frisian Islands, Kiel, the Schleswig Fiords, the Little and Great Belt, the Sound, and Copenhagen. The book is pleasant reading, besides containing abundance of practical directions for any that may care to follow the author's example. Many of the places which he visited will be new to most of his readers,—Maesholm, for instance, at one of
the mouths of the Slei Fiord, in Schleswig. Maesholm is a Danish colony which keeps obstinately separate from its neighbours. The village has only four or five surnames, and there are, Mr. Knight tells us, thirty Peter Mass's in it. He quotes the superscription of a letter, " He that is the eldest of the two Peter Mass's that have red hair." Mr. Knight had the curious experience of finding that the small landed proprietors in Denmark are Radicals, the sailors and fishermen Conservatives.
Previous page
