42 A Walk from 



privilege, they came down in large companies from 

 their gold-pits, and listened to the devotional hymns 

 of the lark, and became better and happier men for its 

 music. 



Seriously, it may be urged that the refined tastes, 

 arts, and genius of the present day do not develope 

 themselves symmetrically or simultaneously in this 

 matter. Here are connoisseurs and enthusiasts in 

 vegetable nature hunting up and down all the earth's 

 continents for rare trees, plants, shrubs, and flowers. 

 They are bringing them to England and America in 

 shiploads, to such extent and variety, that nearly all 

 the dead languages and many of the living are ran- 

 sacked to furnish names for them. Llamas, drome- 

 daries, Cashmere goats, and other strange animals, are 

 brought, thousands of miles by sea and land, to be 

 acclimatised and domesticated to these northern coun- 

 tries. Artificial lakes are made for the cultivation of 

 fish caught in antipodean streams. That is all plea- 

 sant and hopeful and proper. The more of that sort of 

 thing the better. But why not do the other thing, too ? 

 Yattemare made it the mission of his life to induce 

 people of different countries to exchange books, or un- 

 needed duplicates of literature. We need an Audubon 

 or Wilson, not to make new collections of feathered 

 skeletons, and new volumes on ornithology, but to 



