LIBRARY 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 

 SArvTA BARBARA 



NOTE. 



MY thanks are due to those Editors who hare 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 

 Longmarft Magazine ; " Meadow Thoughts " and " Mind under 

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

 44 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 Gentleman!* Ma- 

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

 44 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 Manchater 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. 



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