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not only to the facilities afforded by the railroads, not 

 only to our artists, but more especially to tlie direct 

 interest in Nature Avliicli the doctrine of evolution has 

 aroused, and especially also to our new school of political 

 economists, who, above all men, have preached the too- 

 often - forgotten truth, that man cannot live by bread 

 alone. 



We may, indeed, rejoice that Epping Forest has lately 

 been bought as a park for the people of London, but we 

 should rejoice still more that the New Forest requires 

 not to bo purchased ; rejoice, too, that it has escaped the 

 fate of nearly all our other groat English forests, that it 

 is not shorn of its trees like Charnwood and Needwood, 

 nor spoilt by the smoke of coal-pits like Dean, but that 

 it remains, not indeed now the huntinff-cfround of a kincr 

 but the park of the nation. 



J. R. WISE. 



London. August 1882. 



