vi THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST 
What then was I to do, seeing that all possible 
changes had been rung on such general titles as 
Journals, Letters, Notes, Gleanings, and what not, of 
a Naturalist? There was no second string to my 
bow since Recreations had already been used by my 
friend J. E. Harting for his book. In sheer despera- 
tion I took this title, which would fit any work on 
Natural History ever published. Doubtless it would 
have been an improvement if I could have put in 
the “ Field ” before “‘ Naturalist ” to show that it was 
not a compilation, but the title could not be made 
longer even by a word. 
Some of the chapters in this volume now appear 
for the first time; more of them, however, are taken 
from or based on articles which have appeared in 
various periodicals: the Fortnightly Review, National 
Review, Country Life, Nation, the New Statesman, 
and others. I am obliged to the Editors of the 
Times and Chambers’s Journal for permission to use 
two short copyright articles on the Rat and Squirrel 
which appeared in those journals. _ 
W. H. Hupson. 
