CONTENTS 



PAGE 



I.. Nature in England 1 



II. English Woods : A Contkast ... 35 



III. In Caeltle's Countey . . . 45 



IV.-v A Hunt fok the Nightingale .... 77 



V. English and Ameeican Song'-Bieds . . 113 



TI. Impeessions of some English Bieds . 131 



VII. "In Woedswoeth's Country . . . 147 



VIII. A Glance at Beitish Wild Flowees . . 159 



IX. Beitish Fertility 175 



X. A Sunday in Cheyne EoW, 199 



XI. At Sea 267 



Index 277 



The froutispiece was etched by Charles H. Woodbury, and 

 the vignette by W. H. W. Bicknell, after a photograph of Mr. 

 Burroughs taken at the age of fifty-three. 



