Crown Sv0j Elegantly Bound in Cloth and Gold, Price 5^., 



THE CIRCLE OF THE YEAR; 



OR, 



Stefcfca of pater* m ^ fitters of % %wzanx. 



With Numerous Illustrations. 

 EDITED AND ENLAEGED BY W. H, DAVENPOET ADAMS, 



AUTHOR OF " SWORD AND PEN," "BEFORE THE CONQUEST," ETC. 



OPINION 8- OF THE PRESS. 



BeU's Weekly Messenger. 



"Its purpose is to tell both young and old, but especially the former, 

 how much of interest there is in everything connected with nature, its 

 resources and productions during the progress of the year, and how, 

 month after month, animals, insects, trees, shrubs, flowers, and even 

 weeds have their several functions to fill, and the manner of their doing 

 so. ... The illustrations, which are numerous, greatly increase the 



value of the volume." 



The Observer. 



" The Circle of the Year is essentially a book for the country. The 

 townsman may indeed read it to profit, but it will assuredly raise within 

 him a hankering to be out in the fields, wandering along the green lanes 

 among the trailing hedge-flowers, or attempting to realize the curious fact 

 that a lily of the valley is first cousin to an asparagus." 



The Berwick Warder. 



" It is a healthy and vigorous work, which none can fail to profit from." 



The Border Advertiser. 



"The book is therefore really what it professes to be, a picture of the 

 seasons, and very beautiful and engaging, many of the pictures being 

 drawn in fine sympathy with the outward beauty, and in harmony with the 

 inward spirit lying not deeply under all God's beautiful works. The book 

 is laden with fine thoughts and pleasing observation, and is a handsome 

 and valuable volume for the young." 



The Perth Advertiser. 



"Mr Adams has done his work well. . . . We might liken him to the 

 master of a panorama, only his figures are of the sublimest order such 

 as, the procession of the seasons on the earth, and the corresponding 

 procession of the constellations in the heavens." 



