In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)
“The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 160w. |
“In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 540w. |
“The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by means of these pages.”
| + | Nature. 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 120w. |
“Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here, there, everywhere.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 70w. |