CHARLES DIXON'S WORKS [Coii/inucd). 



IDLE HOURS WITH NATURE. 



With Frontispiece, crown 8vo, 6^. 



Black and White says : — " The title of Mr. Charles Dixon's ' Idle Hours with Nature ' is 

 a >.omewhat exa-iper.iting misnomer. So far from being idle, he is one of the busiest observers 



of nature since White of Selborne wrote, or the modern White, Richard Jefteries 



George Eliot used to say that anglers could not catch fish because they would not study the 

 subjectivity of lishes. Mr. Dixon studies the subjectivity of the wild birds and beasts in a 

 way that has never been done before, and his book is profoundly interesting in consequence. 

 He enters into the minds and moods of the creatures of the air, large and small, and reasons 

 from his observations. He tells us what the Spotted Fly-Catcher must see and feel and desire 

 as it flits on its long migration from the Sahara to its home in our English apple orchards ; 

 and hi analyzes the character of cormorants, petrels, and eagles as carefully and conclusively 

 as a novelist does his heroes and his villains. Mr. Di.von contends that his studies have an 

 ethical value beyond their scientific one. There can be no doubt about it — they take us out 

 of ourselves." 



ANNALS OF BIRD LIFE: 



A Year-Book of British Ornithology. 



With Illustrations by C. Whymper. Crown Svo, Jj. 6d. 



The Speaker says: — -"Delightful book .... In this volume five or six chapters are 

 devoted, in turn, to spring, summer, autunn, and winter ; and everywhere, without thrusting 

 upon us the dry details of science or the jargon of the schools, a minute and pleasing descrip- 

 tion is given of the way of birds, their migration, and the gipsy kind of life they lead." 



The Leeds Mercury says : — " Full of restful charm of rural life written with considerable 

 ability and a real enthusiasm for the subject. The work is the outcome of twenty years' close 

 study and observation of wild life in woods and fields, and beginning with spring, it takes the 

 reader light through the year, and shows him at each season the v.arious movements and 

 habits of the birds. . . . The book is a fresh, artless, and minute description of Nature at first 

 hand." 



WORKS BY JOHN WATSON, F.L.S. 



POACHERS AND POACHING. 



Crown Svo, with Frontispiece, 7s. 6d. 



The Times says : — "All who love nature as much as sport harbour a lurking sympathy for 

 the poacher, iheir respect for his minute knowledge of the life of the fields modifies their 

 indignation at his law-breaking propensities. The poacher in the abstract can in fact be made 

 a very interesting personage, albeit in the concrete he is only an idle and not very scrupulous 

 vagabond. This is the point of view from which he is approached in ' Poachers and Poaching,' 

 by John Watson, F.L.S., a very attractive series of papers on the life of the fields as seen 

 more or less from the poacher's point of view. Mr. Watson has not quite the poetic touch 

 of the late Richard Jefferies, but he has a keen eye, a ready pen, and a wide knowledge of 

 rural life." 



The Glasgow Herald says: — "Poachers, human, furred, feathered, and finned, are de- 

 scribed .... the enthusiastic outpouring of a student and lover of nature. Much more is 

 comprehended than is implied in the title of the work, and it is sure to find many interested 

 readers.'' 



BRITISH SPORTING FISHES. 



Crown Svo, 3^'. 6d. 



The Saturday Review .says : — "A pleasant little book for anglers and lovers of nature is 

 Mr. John Watson's ' British Sporting Fishes.' All fresh-water fish that afford any sort of sport 

 are sporting fish according to the author, who finds room in his delightful sketches of the life- 

 histories and habitats of fish for the smallest of small fry, the roach, the minnow, the stickle- 

 back, and so forth. Mr. Watson's sketches follow a downward scale, from salmon and trout 

 to the small fry of the pool and the brook, and all are characterized by remarkable delicacy of 

 observation." 



The Mornmg Post says : — " ' Sketches of British Sporting Fishes,' by John Watson, affords 

 pleasant reading interspersed with information, the result of practical experience and close 

 observation. Nor does the author confine his remarks entirely to fish, but touches on such 

 Connected subjects as fish poaching, some of the tricks of which he describes. The chapter 

 on grayling is written in the same easy and unpretentious style as the rest of the book." 



CHAPMAN & MALL, LiMix.iD, LONDON. 



