PRESS NOTICES v. 



only to gain instruction, but also to share the delights and 

 adventures of an enterprising naturalist. It will evoke a hearty 

 interest in anyone who likes to watch the ways of birds." 



Liverpool Daily Courier. " This beautiful book bears the 

 impress of the faithful lover of nature. The delicate, affectionate 

 intimacy of it is wholly delightful, and one gets the feeling that 

 the author has lived with the birds and studied their manners 

 and customs in their fireless homes with an exquisite sympathy. 

 Indeed, the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi pervades this unique 

 biography. . . . Such a record should be in every school, in 

 every home where there are young minds to learn of the dainty 

 ways and manners of the lesser life around us, and to be trained 

 in the understanding that birds have their rights equally with 

 men." 



Manchester Courier. " Books on birds are becoming so 

 numerous that it is a matter of some difficulty to separate the 

 good from the bad. We may say at once that Mr. Boraston's 

 handsome volume will compare favourably in regard to the 

 photographic illustrations with the best that have been 

 published in this country; whilst the text is of so excellent a 

 quality that we doubt if anything superior has been issued in 

 recent years. ... It is to the lover of the open air, who has 

 begun to study birds, that this book will come as a welcome 

 companion. The commoner British birds are here dealt with 

 in a thoroughly attractive manner, and the reader never for a 

 moment feels that Mr. Boraston is writing for mere writing's 

 sake. His style has real distinction ; there is in it literary ' sap/ 

 vigour, and a surprising and wholly delightful spontaneity 

 rarely met with in modern books. None but a careless reader 

 can fail to notice the scholarship and varied experience that 

 have gone to the writing of these pages. It is a healthy sign of 

 the times when a writer of Mr. Boraston's calibre devotes his 

 time to work of this nature, and it is to be hoped that the 

 public will show its appreciation of his remarkable book." 



Manchester Daily Dispatch. " To all lovers of nature, 

 whether they have a special predilection for birds or not, Mr. 

 Boraston's 'Birds by Land and Sea,' will strongly appeal, for 

 he is not only a close observer of bird life, but can set down 

 what he has seen so as to fascinate the lay reader, however 



