STUDIES IN NATURE AND 

 COUNTRY LIFE 



A BOOK FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS 

 Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge, 1903. 2s. 6d. net. 



Contents.— Part I. Chapter I. Nature and Observations ; 

 II. Earth; III. Air; IV. Water; V. Heat; VI. Sound; 

 VII. Light and Colour ; VIII. The Weather. Part II. 

 Chapter IX. The Country and its Names; X. Roads; 

 XI. Springs and Streams; XII. Soil; XIII. Fields and 

 Hedgerows ; XIV. Trees and Woods ; XV. Villages. 



" We wrote this book to help our children in days to come to look 

 on the world around them with observing eyes and understanding 

 minds. We publish it in the hope that it may help other people's 

 children, and bring profit to our own." ^Authors' Preface. 



SOME PRESS OPINIONS 



"This is a small but very admirable book, to be used by the intelligent 

 parent or teacher, directly or indirectly, or to be left accessible to the inquiring 

 mind ... any properly constituted child will take an interest m the contents 

 of the book. It teaches him that he is an observer and tells him what to look 

 at and it vAW prove a most welcome refuge to many a child from the stupidity 

 of the male and the unscientific attitude of the female parent. Here, at least, 

 is some one who knows where the weather comes from and what we may 

 expect in normal seasons, what the ' Times' map means, and why the dots are 

 so often put in circles on it, and the like points on which 'grown-ups evade 

 the eager questioner. The first part deals with earth, air, water, heat, sound, 

 light colour, and weather ; the second with names, roads, sprnigs, streams, 

 soil 'fields, hedgerows, trees and woods, and villages. Any child who can 

 take its knowledge and its story separately will be charmed with the volume. 

 — Spectator. 



"A useful little book, not quite like any other. It is to teach children to 

 look on nature with observation and understanding ; touching not so much on 

 fauna and flora, but giving chapters on 'Earth,' 'Heat,' 'The Weather,' 

 ' Roads,' ' Light and Colour,' ' Villages,' etc."— Tzw^j. 



" It is not a primer, but ranges over a number of subjects in a suggestive 

 way, and it shows how to look at things and why. There is hardly a child 

 whose interest might not be stimulated in one or more of the directions indi- 

 cated in this book." — Manchester Guardian. 



