XXll INTRODUCTION. 



that portion of Gilpin's work on picturesque 

 beauty, devoted to general forest scenery. It 

 should be explained that under the general heading 

 of ' Eemarks on forest scenery and other woodland 

 views,' the Author included chapters on 'forest 

 history,' as well as a history and description of 

 the New Forest in Hampshire, as it was in the last 

 /ientury. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that 

 comes properly within the category of ' Forest 

 Scenery ' is included in the present volume, which 

 takes the reader seriatim through the first ten 

 sections of the Third Edition of 1808. All the 

 important corrections made by Gilpin subsequently 

 to the publication of the First Edition in 1791, 

 appear for the first time in a New Edition after a 

 lapse of seventy-one years — for, as already stated. 

 Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's Edition of 1834, 

 was printed from the unrevised issue of 1791. 



We confess to feelings of unusual pleasure in 

 making the present endeavour to bring again into 

 prominence, after so long an interval of time, one 

 of the most delightful books in the English lan- 

 guage. "We confess, too, to the feelings of surprise 

 which we experienced on discovering that no 



