NOTE. 



My thanks are due to those Editors who have so kindly permitted 

 me to reprint the following pages: — "The Field-Play" appeared 

 in Time ; " Bits of Oak Bark " and " The Pageant of Summer," in 

 Longman^s Magazine; "Meadow Thoughts" and "Mind under 

 Water," in The Graphic; "Clematis Lane," "Nature near Brighton," 

 " Sea, Sky, and Down," " January in the Sussex Woods," and " By 

 the Exe," in The Standard ; " Notes on Landscape Painting," in 

 The Magazine of Art ; " Village Miners," in The Oentleman's Ma- 

 gazine ; " Nature and the Gamekeeper," " The Sacrifice to Trout," 

 " The Hovering of the Kestrel," and " Birds Climbing the Air," in 

 The St. James's Gazette; " Sport and Science," in The National 

 Review; "The Water-Colley," in The Manchester Guardian; 

 " Country Literature," " Sunlight in a London Square," " Venice 

 in the East End," "The Pigeons at the British Museum," and 

 " The Plainest City in Europe," in The Pall Mall Gazette. 



KICHARD JEFFERIES. 



