In post 8vo. with l"wenty-six Illustrations, price ]'2s. 



BEAUTIES OF THE COUNTRY; 



OR, 



DESCRIPTIONS OF RURAL CUSTOMS, OBJECTS, SCENERY, 



AND THE SEASONS, 



BY THOMAS MILLER, 



AUTIIOn OF " A DAY IN THE WOODS." 



" Here is a volume expressly in honour of the English landscape, with some of 

 the prettiest and most graphic vignettes ever seen. The volume is a successive 

 description of the aspect of the months in England, — the landscape, the habits of 

 the peasantry, and all that constitutes the interest of rural life, and the charm of 

 rural scenery. It is full of fine passages from the old poets, and happy illustra- 

 tions from all that is graceful in our language, and deserves to be as popular as it 

 undoubtedly is pleasant." — New Montiii,y Magazine. 



" To the real lovers of Nature, this work will be most welcome. It is written 

 with graphic truth, and in a healthy tone. Mr. Miller describes his object to be, to 

 embody in his volume whatever is most "beautiful or poetical in country life and 

 scenery." All this he has done, and has also portrayed with vividness and skill 

 many of the old country customs and festivals. The literary extracts with which his 

 pages are studded, have been gathered with excellent taste from every illustrator of 

 the seasons, both in poetry and prose." — Examiner. 



In post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. cloth, 



AN ANGLER'S RAMBLES. 



BY EDWARD JESSE, F.L.S. 



AUTHOR OF "gleanings IN NATURAL HISTORY." 



Contents : — Thames Fishing — Trolling in Staffordshire — Perch 

 Fishing-club — Two Days' Fly-fishing on the Test — Luckford Fish- 

 ing-club — Grayling Fishing — A Visit to Oxford — The Country 

 Clergyman. 



" Our readers are well acquainted with Mr. Jesse, and the present work is in his 

 own peculiar and pleasant style ; there is the same love of Nature, the same 

 good feeling, and the same variety of anecdote, told in his own lively manner." 



Literary Gazette. 



" Independent of much practical information touching baits and flies, the haunts 

 of fish, and the times and various kinds of fishing, the angler may reap the benefit 

 of some of the author's own inventions as to trolling-hooks, reels, and fixing the 

 bait. " — Spectator. 



" Whoever took up a book of Mr. Jesse's without being delighted with the 

 amusement it afTorded, or satisfied with the knowledge it conveyed ! Truly he has 

 led us to many a scene of good-fellowship, both on land and water ; he has made 

 us intimate with fishermen, landladies, and ladies of the manor also, in humble 

 inns and lordly halls, — to say nothing of a country clergyman, village cricket club, 

 classical Oxford, and that new insight into animal life which has already rendered 

 his works on Natuial History the most charming medium of knowledge ever 

 afforded to the invebtigalin^ mind." — New Monthly Magazine. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 



