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D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 



HE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, 



AND OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE. By Gilbert 

 White. With an Introduction by John Burroughs, 80 Illus- 

 trations by Clifton Johnson, and the Text and New Letters of 

 the Buckland edition. In two volumes. i2mo. Cloth, $4.00. 



" White himself, were he alive to-day, would join all his loving readers in thanking 

 the American publishers for a thoroughly excellent presentation of his famous book. 

 . . . This latest edition of White's book must go into all of our libraries; our young 

 people must have it at hand, and our trained lovers of select literature must take it into 

 their homes. By such reading we keep knowledge in proper perspective and are able 

 to grasp the proportions of discovery." — Maurice Thompson, in the Independent. 



" White's ' Selborne ' belongs in the same category as Walton's ' Complete Angler ' ; 

 . . . here they are, the 'Complete Angler' well along in its third century, and the other 

 just started in its second century, both of them as highly esteemed as they were when 

 first published, both bound to live forever, if we may trust the predictions of their re- 

 spective admirers. John Burroughs, in his charming introduction, tells us why White's 

 book has lasted and why this new and beautiful edition has been printed. . . . This new 

 edition of his work comes to us beautifully illustrated by Clifton Johnson." — Neiv \ ork 

 Times. 



" White's ' Selborne ' has been reprinted many times, in many forms, but never be- 

 fore, so far as we can remember, in so creditable a form as it assumes in these two 

 volumes, nor with drawings comparable to those which Mr. Clifton Johnson has made 

 for them." — JVew York Mail and Express. 



" We are loath to put down the two handsome volumes in which the source of such 

 a gift as this has been republished. The type is so clear, the paper is so pleasant to 

 the touch, the weight of each volume is so nicely adapted to the hand, and one turns 

 page after page with exactly that quiet sense of ever new and ever old endeared de- 

 light which comes through a window looking on the English countryside— the rooks 

 cawing in a neighboring copse, the little village nestling sleepily amid the trees, trees 

 so green that sometimes they seem to hover on the edge of black, and then again so 

 green that they seem vivid with the flaunting bravery of spring." — New York 

 Tribune. 



" Not only for the significance they lend to one of the masterpieces of English 

 literature, but as a revelation of English rural life and scenes, are these pictures de- 

 lightfully welcome. The edition is m every way creditable to the publishers." — 

 Boston Beacon. 



" Rural England has many attrgctions for the lover of Nature, and no work, per- 

 haps, has done its charms greater justice than Gilbert White's 'Natural History of 

 Selborne.' " — Boston journal. 



"This charming edition leaves really nothing to be desired." — Westminster 

 Gazette. 



" This edition is beautifully illustrated and bound, and deserves to be welcomed by 

 all naturalists and Nature \o\ers."^London Daily Chronicle. 



" Handsome and desirable in every respect. . . . Welcome to old and young." — 

 JVew York Herald. 



" The charm of White's ' Selborne ' is not drfinable But there is no other book of 

 the past generations that will ever take the place with the field naturalists, "—.^a///- 

 tnore Sun. 



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