CONTENTS. xi 



CHAPTER VI. 

 LITERARY WORK (continued). 



P.iOB 



" Trespassers" The Master-key to Zoology " Out of Doors " A Serious 

 Accident and its Results Effect upon Literary Work "Man and Beast, 

 Here and Hereafter " Scriptural Teaching upon Animal Immortality 

 Spiritual Attributes in the Animal World The Balance of Evidence 

 Two Amusing Letters " The Beasts that Perish" The Leading 

 Idea of " Man and Beast "A Contemplated New Edition The Testi- 

 mony of Hebrew "Nature's Teachings " and its Principle References 

 thereto in the Sketch-Lectures Religion and Natural History . . 86 



CHAPTER VII. 

 LITERARY WORK (continued). 



The Russo-Turkish War and its Effects on the Book Trade Losses sustained 

 by Publishers and Authors Brighter Days "The Lane and Field" 

 Removal to Upper Norwood Visits to the Crystal Palace New 

 Edition of Waterton's famous " Wanderings "^-Necessity for an 

 Explanatory Index Previous Acquaintance with Waterton Incom- 

 prehensible Indian Titles Preparation of the " Index " The New 

 Edition in the Press Working against Time Natural History Read- 

 ing-books " The Field Naturalist's Handbook" " Anecdotal Natural 

 History " " Petland Revisited " " Horse and Man "A False Ideal 

 of Beauty Man's Contempt for Nature The Ill-effects of Horse-shoes 

 Unshod Horses and their Capabilities The.Bearing Rein Blinkers 

 " Horse and Man " and the Critics Farriers and their Views Converts 

 and their Testimony An Unenlightened Inspector Lecture on the 

 Horse " Illustrated Stable Maxims " " Man and his Handiwork " 

 Its Leading Principle Evolution " The Handy Natural History " 

 Posthumous Works 99 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 LITERARY WORK (concluded). 



" Bees and their Management " " Strange Dwellings " " The Boy's Own 

 Natural History "" Common British Insects" " Bible Animals" 

 divided Reprints Magazine Articles Connection with The Boy's 

 Own Paper The Sunday Magazine "Writings for the Young" 

 " Mistram " Summary of Literary Labours " Popularising " Natural 

 History The "Field" Naturalist Importance of Classification 

 Personal Observation Opening out a New Field . . . .116 



CHAFTER IX. 

 THE SKETCH-LECTURES. 



Occasional Lectures Lectures at Oxford in 1856 The Origin of the Sketch- 

 Lectures Course given at Brixton Rat-pie The Newspapers on the 



