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HE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE AND 



OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE. By Gilbert White. 



With an Introduction by John Burroughs, 80 Illustrations by 



Clifton Johnson, and the Text and New Letters of the Buckland 



Edition. In two volumes. i2mo. Cloth, $4.00. 



' ' White himself, were he alive to-day, would join all his loving readers in thank- 

 ing the American publishers for a thoroughly excellent presentation of his famous 

 book. . . . This latest edition of White's book must go into all our libraries ; our 

 young people must have it at hand, and our trained lovers of select literature must 

 take it into their homes. By such reading we keep knowledge in proper perspective 

 and are able to grasp the proportions of discovery." — Maurice Thompson, in the 

 Independent. 



' ' White's ' Selbome ' belongs in the same category as Walton's * Complete 

 Angler ' ; . . . here they are, the ' Complete Angler ' well along in its third century, 

 and the other just started in its second century, both of them as highly esteemed as 

 they were when first published, both bound to live forever, if we may trust the pre- 

 dictions of their respective admirers. John Burroughs, in his charming introduction, 

 tells us why White's book has lasted, and why this new and beautiful edition has been 

 printed. . . . This new edition of his work comes to us beautifully illustrated by 

 Clifton Johnson. ' — New York Times. 



" White's ' Selbome' has been reprinted many times, in many forms, but never 

 before so far as we can remember, in so creditable a form as it assumes in these two 

 volumes, nor with drawings comparable to those which Mr. Chfton Johnson has made 

 for them." — New York Mail and Express. 



" We are loath to put down the two handsome volumes in which the source of 

 such a gift as this has been republished. The type is so clear, the paper is so pleas- 

 ant to the touch, the weight of each volume is so nicely adapted to the hand, and one 

 turns page after page with exactly that quiet sense of ever new and ever old endeared 

 delight which comes through a window looking on the English countryside— the rooks 

 cawing in a neighboring copse, the Httle village nestling sleepily amid the trees, trees 

 so green that sometimes they seem to hover on the edge of black, and then again so 

 green that they seem vivid with the flaunting bravery of spring." — New York 

 Tribune. 



"Not only for the significance they lend to one of the masterpieces of English 

 literature but as a revelation of English rural life and scenes, are these pictures de- 

 lightfully' welcome. The edition is in every way creditable to the publishers."— 

 Boston Beacon, 



" Rural England has many attractions for the lover of Nature, and no work, per- 

 haps, has done its charms greater justice than -Gilbert White's 'Natural History of 

 Selborne.' " — Boston Journal. 



"This charming edition leaves really nothing to be A^iXxitA.'' — Westminster 

 Gazette. 



" This edition is beautifully illustrated and bound, and deserves to be welcomed by 

 all naturalists and Nature lovers."— London Daily Chronicle. 



" Handsome and desirable in every respect. . . Welcome to old and young."— 

 A''ew York Herald. 



" The charm of White's ' Selborne ' is not definable. But there is no other book 

 of the past generations that will ever take the place with the field naturalists. — 

 Baltimore Sun. 



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