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" I have just finished writing a book about which I have been meditating 

 seventeen years .... it really is an autobiography, an actual record 

 of i\\QMg\\\.."— Letter to Mr. Longman, 22nd June, 1883. 



" This book is a confession. The author describes the successive stages 

 of emotion and thought through which he passed, till he arrived at the 

 conclusions which are set forth in the latter part of the volume. He claims 

 to have erased from his mind the traditions and learning of the past ages, 

 and to stand face to face with nature and with the unknown. The general 

 aim of the work is to free thought from every trammel, with the view of 

 its entering upon another and larger series of ideas than those which have 

 occupied the brain of man so many centuries. He believes that there is a 

 whole world of ideas outside and beyond those which now exercise us . . . 

 For himself, for the individual, the author desires physical perfection— ho 

 despises external circumstances. From all nature— from the universe— he 

 desires to take its energy, grandeur, and beauty. He looks forward to the 

 possibility of ideal man .... is anxious that the culture of the soul 

 should be earnestly carried out ... . considers the idea of duty in- 

 ferior, and believes that there is something higher. He ends as he commences 

 with prayer for the fullest soul-life."— From Author's Analysis, in Notes on 

 Books, 30th November, 1883. 



XVIII. 



Red Deer. 



First Edition. One vol. Crown 8vo, pp. 207. Longmans, 

 Green, & Co. February, 1884. 4*. 6r/. [Now priced at 30*.] 



Second Edition, with frontispiece by H. Tunaley, and sixteen 

 illustrations by John Charlton. One vol. Crown 8vo, pp. 5J48. 

 Silver Library, March, 1892. '6s. Qd. 



Contents :— I.— Red Deer Land. 11.— Wild Exmoor. III.— Deer in 

 Summer. IV.— Antler and Fern. V.— Ways of Deer. VI.— Tracking 

 Deer by Slot. VII.— The Hunted Stag. VIII.— Hind-hunting. IX.— A 

 Manor House in Deer Land. X.— Game Notes and Folk Lore. 



" A minute account of the natural history of the wild deer of Exmoor, and 

 of the modes of hunting them."— ie^er to Mr. Longman, 1883. 



The best work in existence on its subject. 



XIX. 



Tlie Life of the Fields. 



First Edition. One vol. Post 8vo. Cloth extra, pp. viii. 



