... like the British public , to appreciate tlie bievcle ? I am inclined to t-huA &ey are ( writes Dr Charles Plowright in Nature' Notes . ) Certainly one catches many more g-limpses of-bird 3 ifo when on the wheel than the immitiated w&uld especfc . It ...

... curious customs that still survive in England , on popular sports and pastimes , ar id other subjects ; and there are nature notes applicable to each month , and a budget of stray statistics on trade , . wrecks , railways , Post Office work , and ...

... unco lang aboot it . His readers , however , will best appreciate those songB ' in which he strifces his characteristic natural . note of tenderness— A Cosy Wea Hoose 0 ' my Ain , ami the lyrics in the pleasant pastoral that gives tlie book its . title ...

... The musings ' ar ^ in verse . The author has fluency and facility in rhyming ; and occasionally strikes a sympathetic and natural note , although the volume , as a whole , reveals no great poetic ability , Messrs Swan Sonnenschein , Lowrey , & Co . have ...

... importance to an actual locality . But even in this earliest essay , at watercolour eslnbifcion the dominance of the ' . natural note , • the endeavour to give a local habitation as a name to the landscape art exhibited ,, was manifest , and became more ...

... to Aava them brought together in a volume . Her hfirp-Ing is chiefly on the devotional string . There are also . many natural notes of domestic affection and strains in praise of J 3 order scenery . • Mrs Fairbairn mixes a wi' admonition due ; and ...

... history , romance , or ballad-poetry—Douglas and Cawdor Castles , or Bomorsido and Drpbiirgli . Theso localisations of these nature • notes add immensely to their value and interest ; and the book derives additional attractiveness from its beautiful illustrations ...

... which , in turn , had noteworthy effects upon vegetable and animal life in field , river , and garden . Mixed with these nature . notes are not less welcome reminiscences of artists who , like Mr Leslie , were devoted lovers and students of flowers and their ...

... love of nature , as expressed in his praise of a day ia the height of summer , makes his versa one of the few sweet and natural note ? in Scottish poetry between the age of Dun'bar and that of Ramsay . Contemporaries and neighbours of Hume were Sir ' ...

... living things , whether moTin ; in sea or air or on earth—in short , he is something of a nature-poet as well as a taker of nature-notes . Tha pleasure o { a walk by the Eca ortheriFer side . or along the hedgerows or over the moors of his native county will ...