W. H. HUDSON'S WORKS. 



BIRDS IN A VILLAGE. 



Square Crown Svo, 7^-. 6(/. 



Ths Academy says :— " Mr. Hudson is a very loving student of birds. No movement, no 

 twitter, no cadence of song escapes him ; and his analytic mind at once asks the reason of all 

 these changeful habits. ... Mr. Hudson's style is admirable : at the same time lucid and 

 attractive .... No rules, no mannerism bind Mr. Hudson. His keen and subtle powers of 

 observation are seconded by a playful fancy : while a rich imaginative halo is thrown round 

 the bird he describes, which brings it into greater prominence, as it were, and strongly 

 impresses its individuality upon the reader. ... In short, this whole book is delightful, and 

 any kind of praise or commendation is superfluous." 



The Graphic says :-"The book is one to read, delight in, and appreciate. Mr. Hudson 

 belongs to the school of Thoreau and of John Burroughs : but he is better than the last 

 because he is more suggestive, with a finer vein of poetry running like a fugue through 

 his writing." 



THE NATURALIST IN LA PLATA. 



With Illustrations by J. Smit. Demy Svo, i6.r. 

 Mr. Alfred E. Wallace in " Nature " says :—" This volume, so far as the present writer 

 knows, is altogether unique among bonks on natural history. What renders this work of such 

 extreme value and interest is, that it is not written by a traveller or a mere temporary- 

 resident, but by one born in the country, to whom its various tribes of beasts, birds, and 

 insects have been familiar from chddhood ; who is imbued with love and admiration for every 

 form of life ; and who for twenty years has observed carefully and recorded accurately every- 

 thing of interest in the life-histories of the various species with which he has become 

 acquainted. The book is written in an earnest spirit, and m a clear and delightful style. 

 It remains only to add that the book is beautifully got up, and that the numerous illustrations 

 are at once delicate and characteristic. Never has the present writer derived so much 

 pleasure and instruction from a book on the habits and instincts of animals, the most 

 interesting and delightful of modern books on natural history." 



IDLE DAYS IN PATAGONIA. 



Illustrated by Alfred Hari'ley and J. Smit. Demy Svo, 14J. 



The Times says : — " ' Idle Days in Patagonia ' is a welcome and worthy addition to the 

 literature of travel and zoological observations in South America — already so rich by the 

 labours and writings of Bates, Darwin, and of Mr. Hudson himself, who is not unworthy to 

 be named in this distmguished company. Mr. Hudson is a keen observer, an acute reasoner, 

 and a very attractive writer, and the many readers who have appreciated his ' Naturalist 

 in La Plata' will turn with eagerness to his 'Idle Days in Patagonia,' and will not be 

 disappointed." 



The Scotsman says :— " In the new volume Mr. Hudson presents himself almost more as 

 the poet than as the observer of wild nature. . . . Mr. Hudson's chief field of Patagonian 

 research was on the Rio Negro, whose valley is a strip of life and greenness drawn through 

 the dry and thorny wilderness. There is not a dull or an unsuggestjve page in his book. 

 Personal adventures there are not a few, but Mr. Hudson is almost more interesting when he 

 turns aside to meditate upon, and illustrate from the rich store of his reading and experience, 

 such themes as bird music, migratory instincts, the ' quality of whiteness ' in snow and other 

 natural objects, the mysteries enfolded in the sense of smell, keenness of sight and colour 

 sense in savage and in civilized men, and the predominating colour of the eye, and its 

 Significance in different races of mankind." 



CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited, LONDON. 



