Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications. 



Wild Life in a Southern County. 



By the Author of " The Gamekeeper at Home." 

 i6mo. Cloth. Price $1.25. 



Prom the London Athemeum, March i, 1879. 



" The author of ' The Gamekeeper at Home ' has given us a volume which is 

 worthy of a place beside White's ' Selborne.' Not, of course, that his style is 

 equal to that of his fascinating prototype (to say the truth, the Gamekeeper's style 

 is the least noticeable feature of his book) ; but in the essentials of a book of 

 this kind — in that closeness of observation which is born of the loving eye ; in 

 the power of giving, by an instinctive selection of physiognomic details, a picture 

 far beyond the efforts of the mere word-painter, who has to rely solely upon the 

 cumulative process so much now in vogue — he is the equal of the Selborne rector, 

 perhaps his superior. The author's observation of man is as close and as true as 

 his observation of the lower animals. For instance, he describes the farmers 

 driving to market, and as they go along the high-road, glancing up the furrows to 

 note how they are ploughed, and to look for game, ' You may tell from a distance 

 if they espy a hare, by the check of the rein, and the extended hand pointing.' 

 Yet his deepest affection is for the lower animals, as is mostly the case with those 

 who know them best. 



" To those who love Nature in liar sweetest moods, — that is to say, basking on 

 soft hills, and slumbering in the green valleys of England, — this is a book to read 

 and to treasure." 



From the Londoji Saturday Review. 



"'Wild Life in a Southern County' is perhaps even a more delightful book 

 than 'The Gamekeeper at Home.' The author is at once the closest and the 

 most catholic of observers. It seems evident that he must have been bred up as 

 a boy in that out-of-the-world neighborhood which he describes so vividly. He 

 must surely have lived the life of the farm-house, and mixed with the easy famil- 

 iarity of boyhood among the farmers and their shepherds and laborers. ... It is 

 difficult to give more than the vaguest idea of a volume so full of entertaining mat- 

 ter. It might be defined as a vndtum in parvo Encyclopedia of country sights 

 and country matters. . . . Open the book where you may, you cannot fail to find 

 something attractive ; and as it is impossible to do it reasonable justice in a review, 

 we can only recommend our readers to procure it." 



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