"He fully deserves the high compliment of being compared with Jefferies.... This beautiful book, in which a zoologist might find new facts, a poet light, and any thoughtful reader an inspiration."—Fishing Gazette.
"There is the same enthusiasm and sincerity that marked Jefferies' work. Mr. Watson always writes like a man who has his eye on his subject. 'Nature by Night' is a thoroughly charming prose idyl, every detail in which is obviously taken at first hand from
Nature."—Observer.
"Full of delicate description as enchanting as a fairy tale. Dull indeed must be the reader who is insensible to its delightful charm.... Does the increase of such books mean that we are tired of the civilisation of the streets, and are ready to turn back for a while to the relics of a freer and wilder state?"—Manchester Examiner.
"After the laboured imitations of Jefferies, Mr. Watson's 'Sylvan Folk' comes like a breath of sweet country air into the atmosphere of an emporium of stuffed birds and calico flowers. A sympathetic, keen-eyed, worshipful observer of Nature, Mr. Watson writes with the simplicity and directness of a man who knows what he is about. There is not an uninteresting page in 'Sylvan Folk' from first to last."—Echo.
"He knows how to interpret many of the innumerable signs and symbols which are readily misunderstood, or altogether overlooked, by less careful inquirers.... His descriptions are so fresh—they suggest so vividly the idea of happy hours spent among attractive scenes in the open air—that they will give genuine pleasure to everyone who reads them."—Nature.
London: T. FISHER UNWIN, Paternoster Square, E.C.