Crown Svo, 302 pp^ cloth, 3*. 6d. 



NATURE AND WOODCRAFT 



BY 



JOHN WATSON, F.L.S., 



Author of " Sylvan Folk" &c. 



NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 



" A delightfully fresh and enjoyable book. Those who know the open air 

 and the life of animated nature will enjoy the skill with which Mr. Watson 

 translates its aspects and its actions into literary expression. Those who dwell 

 in cities will enjoy it because the papers induce the illusion that one is in the 

 country." Scotsman. 



" Written with real ability as well as adequate knowledge. On every page 

 there is evidence of genuine though never paraded enthusiasm for the calm 

 delights of the country. Mr. Watson writes in a clear and attractive manner, 

 and one, moreover, around which an imaginative glamour rests" Leeds Mercury. 



" Mr. Watson writes effectively, from the accumulations of years of close 

 observation of nature. Since the death of Mr. Jefferies few living writers can 

 compete with him in this particular path of literature." Bookseller. 



" This is the best witten and most valuable of Mr. Watson's books. Best of 

 all are his chapters on the old Statesman theory of life in the North." 

 Academy. 



" Nothing can be better than all those chapters which describe life among 

 fhe Cumbrian mountains ; this is Mr. Watson's real theme, and he deserves 

 all the thanks we can give him for executing it with such true feeling." 

 Manchester Guardian. 



" Mr. Watson's volume ' Nature and Woodcraft ' deserves a hearty welcome, 

 and will doubtless get it. He writes with a grace and fluency that make his 

 book hard to leave." Yorkshire Post. 



" Many admirers of Richard Jefferies will be glad to see that one still lives 

 who can write so charmingly of nature and woodcraft," Perthshire Advertiser. 



" As an observer pure and simple, and as a bright and pleasing recorder, 

 Mr. Watson can hold his own with anybody ; and his range is sufficiently 

 extensive to secure, in addition to all other charms, the charm of variety." 

 Manchester Examiner. 



LONION: WALTER SMITH 6r IXXES, BEDFORD ST., STRAND, W.C. 



