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and Manual Labour," "Robbers of Churches," 

 " Methodists and Undenominational Education," 

 "Fruit-Trees in Hedgerows," "Tithes," "Sale of 

 Small Birds," "Pasteur & Co.," "Close Time for 

 Sea-Birds," "Birds and Bonnets," "The Plumage 

 League." 



On many of these topics for instance, "The 

 Sparrow," "Evolution," "Church Defence," and 

 " Close Time for Birds " the letters he wrote would 

 have sufficed to fill volumes of considerable size. 

 Those which he wrote to the Times alone between 

 the years 1870-1880, mainly about birds, he pub- 

 lished in a separate volume of over two hundred 

 and fifty pages though subsequently to that period 

 he must have written enough letters to the same 

 journal to fill another volume. 



The newspapers to whose columns he was so 

 incessantly contributing were as varied in character 

 as the matters on which he wrote. Conservative 

 or Liberal, religious or secular, Church or Dissent- 

 ing, scientific, popular, agricultural, philanthropic, 

 humanitarian, all were the same to him for the end 

 he had in view. Although holding his own views, 

 religious and political, so strongly, whenever he felt 

 that he had something to say that would interest 

 or benefit in some way those for whom he wrote, 

 it mattered but little or nothing what the particular 

 colour of the paper might be to which he addressed 

 himself. The following are some of those which 

 may be named : The Animate Guardian, Animal 

 World, A rrow, Christian World, Cambrian Journal, 



