A Bird-Lover in the West

The studies in this volume were all made, as the title indicates, in the West; part of them in Colorado (1891), in Utah (1893), and the remainder (1892) in what I have called The Middle Country, being Southern Ohio, and West only relatively to New England and New York, where most of my studies have been made.
Several chapters have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines, and in the Independent and Harper's Bazar, while others are now for the first time published.
OLIVE THORNE MILLER.




Trust me, 't is something to be cast Face to face with one's self at last, To be taken out of the fuss and strife, The endless clatter of plate and knife, The bore of books, and the bores of the street, From the singular mess we agree to call Life.
And to be set down on one's own two feet So nigh to the great warm heart of God, You almost seem to feel it beat Down from the sunshine and up from the sod; To be compelled, as it were, to notice All the beautiful changes and chances Through which the landscape flits and glances, And to see how the face of common day Is written all over with tender histories.
James Russell Lowell.