28 OUTDOOR STUDIES 
line in winter; meet Nature on the cricket- 
ground or at the regatta; swim with her, ride 
with her, run with her, and she gladly takes you 
back once more within the horizon of her 
magic, and your heart of manhood is born again 
into more than the fresh happiness of the boy. 
Nore.—This essay appeared originally in the A¢/an- 
tic Monthly of March, 1858, and was thus simultaneous 
with that great development of athletic exercises in the 
United States which began about that time, —a ten- 
dency in which this essay was credited with having had, 
perhaps, some small share. Some of its more extreme 
statements have therefore been modified in the present 
reprint, leaving mainly what is still significant. 
