A Year with the Birds / Third Edition, Enlarged

by W. Warde Fowler

THE END.

Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
LONDON AND BUNGAY.

MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO.’S PUBLICATIONS.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

TALES OF THE BIRDS. With Illustrations by BRYAN HOOK. New and Cheaper Edition, with an Additional Tale. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

Contents:—“A Winter’s Tale”—“Out of Tune”—“A Jubilee Sparrow”—“The Falcon’s Nest”—“A Debate in an Orchard”—“A Tragedy in Rook-life”—“A Question beginning with ‘Why’”—“The Lighthouse”—and “The Owls’ Revenge,” which was not included in the first edition.

SATURDAY REVIEW:—“It is one of the most delightful books about birds ever written. All the stories are good.... He knows all about their social habits and their solitary phases of life from close and constant observation, and makes the most profitable use of his study as ornithologist by the prettiest alliance of his science with the fancy and humour of an excellent story teller.... The book finds sympathetic illustration in Mr. Bryan Hook’s clever drawings.”

GLOBE:—“Mr. Fowler’s book will be especially appreciated by young readers. He displays both a knowledge and love of nature and of the animal creation, and the tales have the merit moreover of conveying in an unostentatious way the best of morals. The illustrations by Mr. Bryan Hook are admirably drawn and engraved.”

GUARDIAN:—“Mr. Fowler has produced a charming book, which none are too old and few too young to appreciate. He possesses the rare art of telling a story simply and unaffectedly; he is pathetic without laborious effort; he excels in suggesting the effect which he desires to produce. A quiet vein of humour runs through many of the stories, and many shrewd strokes of kindly satire are given under the guise of his pleasant fables.... Apart from the interest of the stories themselves, the pages are brimful of minute observation of the ways and habits of bird life. The Tales of the Birds would be an admirable present to any child, and if the grown-up donor read it first, the present would, in a peculiar degree, confer the double blessing which proverbially belongs to a gift.”

LITERARY WORLD:—“Those who want to choose a book for holiday reading should ask for Tales of the Birds.... We might continue to describe one pretty parable after another. ‘The Jubilee Sparrow’ is full of humour, and ‘Out of Tune’ carries a pathetic yet practical moral of inward and outward harmony. Several others are equally charming, but we must forbear more than a concluding word of hearty commendation. This is the sort of book to read.”