THE WOOD PEOPLE 



By maud D. HAVILAND 

 SOME PRESS OPINIONS 



"Maud D. Haviland's 'The Wood People: and Others' should 

 appeal strongly to young lovers of nature. It is a book of stories in 

 which animals of various kinds play the chief parts. Written in an 

 entertaining manner, these stories will furnish capital reading for young 

 people, and should be a real help to mothers and others who require 

 something to read to children which may be calculated to do rather more 

 than simply amuse them." — Field. 



"Miss Maud D. Haviland is acknowledged as one of our most 

 accomplished interpreters of the wild, and there is not a chapter in this 

 latest selection of her nature stories that has failed to enthral us. The 

 reader is simply compelled to be enmeshed in her wonderful imagination 

 and look on at the lower animals living and loving, working and playing, 

 as in some comedie animale." — Pall Mall Gazette. 



" This reviewer has for some years seen most, if not all, of that 

 large class of writing the animal novel. He remembers no writer who 

 sets forth incidents in animal life more cleverly and pleasantly than Miss 

 Haviland. Her style is virile without any of those mannerisms of violence 

 with which some other writers of the school offend. There are no 

 attempts to explain the psychology of a rabbit being chased by a ferret or 

 a pike being attacked by an otter. Simply the true story is told of the 

 contest and the upshot. By dint of a high and elusive art working 

 within the strict bounds of actuality, the long series of stories collected 

 in this book shows not one that is not thoroughly interesting and worth 

 reading. With sex and parentage Miss Haviland deals beautifully, and 

 in general has an apt choice of words that seems to be instinctive." 



Daily News. 



"To all lovers of wild nature 'The Wood People,' with its delicate 

 illustrations by Harry Rountree, strongly appeals. The book is a 

 charming collection of stories." — Nottingham Guardian, 



"It is a perfectly charming piece of work." — Birmingham Post. 



"The stories are all true in the spirit, if not in the letter; but of 

 course the charm of the book lies in the telling, and nothing but a long 

 extract could show how it has charmed us." — Journal of Education. 



" The author of this book has gone deep into the ways of nature, 

 and writes of her furred and feathered people with real knowledge and 

 insight." — Clmrdi Times. 



" The sketches are well seen in the actualities of natural history, but 

 they make always a happy study of picturesque and dramatic interests." 



Scotsman, 



"Miss Maud D. Haviland is among the few living writers who can 

 talk in familiar language with the little people of the wood." 



Daily Graphic. 



London: EDWARD ARNOLD 



