Crown 8w, 286 #., cloth, is. 6d. 



SYLVAN FOLK: 



Sketches of Bird and Animal Life in Britain, 



BY 



JOHN WATSON, F.L.S., 



Author of " Nature and Woodcraft" etc. 



NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 



" Written by a born naturalist. . . . Characterised by that indefinable 

 something which distinguishes the observer of the fields and woods from the 

 mere book student." Daily News. 



'' It is this freshness, this out-door atmosphere, that gives its charm to these 

 sketches of bird and animal life, and that leads the reader along in fascinated 

 interest from the first to the last page." Literary World. 



" May be placed on the same shelf with that of the greatest of all writers 

 on English rural life without any quarrel being incurred. ... At once a 

 morally bracing and most instructive book." Christian Leader. 



" He fully deserves the high compliment of being compared with Jefferies 

 . . . . This beautiful book, in which a zoologist might find new facts, a 

 poet light, and any thoughtful reader an inspiration." Fishing Gazette. 



" There is the same enthusiasm and sincerity that marked Jefferies' work. 

 Mr. Watson always writes like a man who has his eye on his subject. ' Nature 

 by Night ' is a thoroughly charming prose idyl, every detail in which is ob- 

 viously taken at first hand from Nature.' Observer. 



" Full of delicate description as enchanting as a fairy tale. Dull indeed 

 must be the reader who is insensible to its delightful charm . . . Does the 

 increase of such books mean that we are tired of the civilisation of the streets, 

 and are ready to turn back for a while to the relics of a freer and wilder state ? " 

 Manchester Examiner. 



"After the laboured imitations of Jefferies, Mr. Watson's 'Sylvan Folk' 

 comes like a breath of sweet country air into the atmosphere of an emporium 

 of stuffed birds and calico flowers. A sympathetic, keen-eyed, worshipful ob- 

 server of Nature, Mr. Watson writes with the simplicity and directness 

 of a man who knows what he is about. There is not an uninteresting page in 

 ' Sylvan Folk ' from first to last." Echo. 



" He knows how to interpret many of the innumerable signs and symbols 

 which are readily misunderstood, or altogether overlooked, by less careful 

 inquirers. . . . His descriptions are so fresh they suggest so vividly the 

 idea of happy hours spent among attractive scenes in the open air that they 

 will give genuine pleasure to everyone who reads them." Nature. 



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