VILLAGE STREET — WHITE'S HOUSE. 
INTRODUCTORY OBSERYATIONS. 
In agreeing to the request of the proprietors of the National 
Illustrated Library^ to give my assistance to their present edition 
of the " Natural History of Selborne," I have felt that there was 
a danger of making repetitions, and a difficulty of adding much 
that was new to a work which had been printed in so many 
forms, and had been of late years so much written about. But 
- the wish to extend among a new generation of readers the 
knowledge of a book which, in the opinion of every one, is well 
fitted for the perusal of young persons, and is a valuable record 
and example how the leisure hours of a country clergyman may 
be profitably and innocently employed, induced me to comply. 
There was also the desire to make some corrections incident to 
our more recent information on what I had already written in a 
previous edition, and to explain that several editions which bore 
my name were accompanied with some notes, and by illustrations 
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