VILLAGE STREET—WHITE’S HOUSE. 
INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 
In agreeing to the request of the proprietors of the Wational 
Illustrated Libary, to give my assistance to their present 
edition of the “Natural History of Selborne,” I have felt that 
there was a danger of making repetitions, and a difficulty of 
adding much that was new to a work which had been printed 
in so many forms, and had been of late years so much written 
about. But the wish to extend among a new generation of 
readers the knowledge of a book which, in the opinion of every 
one, is well fitted for the perusal of young persons, and is a 
valuable record and example how the leisure hours of a country 
clergyman may be profitably and innocently employed, induced 
me to comply. There was also the desire to make some 
