NOTE

Taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by the necessity for again reprinting A Year in the Fields, the publishers have added to the volume a biographical sketch of Mr. Burroughs and a number of new illustrations.

Boston, September, 1901.

CONTENTS

[John Burroughs: a Biographical Sketch]
I.[A Snow-storm]
II.[Winter Neighbors]
III.[A Spring Relish]
IV.[April]
V.[Birch Browsings]
VI.[A Bunch of Herbs.]
[Fragrant Wild Flowers]
[Weeds]
VII.[Autumn Tides]
VIII.[A Sharp Lookout]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[A Hawk in Sight]
[Riverby, Mr. Burroughs's Home on the Hudson]
["Slabsides"]
[Tracks in the Snow]
[The Study]
[Out for a Walk]
[The Old Apple-tree]
[Winter at Riverby on the Hudson]
[Wood for the Study Fire]
[An Evening in Spring]
[At the Study Door]
[A Woodland Brook]
[An April Day]
[The Home of a Spider]
[A Bird Song]
[In the Woods]
[Picking Wild Flowers]
[A Flower in a Woodland Roadway]
[A Stalwart Weed]
[Among the Rocks]
[On the Edge of a Catskill "Sugar Bush"]
[A Catskill Roadway]
[Beechnuts (Mr. Burroughs's Boyhood Home seen in the distance.)]
[By the Study Fire]