SUMMER DAYS FOR 



WINTER EVENINGS. 



a Series ot IWature JO^lls. 



BY 



J. H. CRAWFORD, F.L.S. 



With Illustrations by John Williamson. 



Large crown 8vo, Ss. 6d. net. 



"With Mr. Crawford's delightful sketches, sometimes telling alone 

 of Nature's aspects, sometimes with a thread of story to lend a touch 

 of human interest, a reader must have little imagination if he does not 

 speedily forget the tempest that beats against the casement, and fancy 

 himself between green earth and blue sky, watching the kaleidoscope 

 of the seasons and the changes of the year, and the ways of furred 

 and feathered creatures which are so sympathetically described." — 

 Times. 



"Mr. Crawford is one of those naturalists whose writings claim 

 attention by their literary grace and the idyllic charm of their pictures 

 of rural life. . . . There are hardly six who could have written such 

 sweet, reflective, and poetical chapters as ' Leafy June ' and the 

 ' Summer Air.' " — Daily Alail. 



"We can bracket his (Mr. Crawford's) two books as better than 

 anything else of the kind since the days of Richard Jefferies." — 

 Saturday Review. 



"A bright gleam of sunlight in this winter of our discontent comes 

 from Mr. Crawford's 'Summer Days for W^inter Evenings.' The 

 author has already, in his 'WHld Life of Scotland,' shown himself a 

 master in depicting the ever-changing phases of nature and animal 

 life in an easy and graceful style- — no slight art. This new volume 

 of idylls on bird life in the hedgerows and fields during spring and 

 summer should enhance his reputation as a colourman and decorator 

 in words. Yet, for all his picturesque and dainty style, Mr. Crawford 

 is an observant naturalist, one who discovers new beauties in things 

 which every one of us must have seen thousands of times without 

 ever having found them out." — Pall Mall Gazette. 



