MRS. BRIGHTWEN ON “ WILD NATURE." 47 
MRS. BRIGHTWEN ON “WILD NATURE.” 
[Mr. Fisher Unwin has brought out, at the price of a shilling, a very pleasant 
little volume — Good Reading abottt Many Books. The books are those published 
by himself, and if this appear to some a glorified form of advertisement, they 
will not deny its interest, for the authors themselves have for the most part 
supplied the information contained in the volume. 
The interest, to us, centres in the account, given by one of our most valued con- 
tributors, of two books* which have done as much as any to advance the principles 
which the Selborne Society was established to promote. We feel, therefore, that 
our readers will be glad to have this simple, unaffected narrative transferred to 
our pages, and the kindness of the publisher allows us to reproduce the portrait 
which accompanies it. — El). W.W.l 
|T was not until late in life that it occurred to me to put 
down in literary form the observations which a long 
devotion to nature and a humble, persevering study of 
it had inspired. I have always had a singular love of 
animals and birds, and a certain skill, I suppose, in persuading 
Wild Nature Won by Kindness, and More About Wild Nature. 
