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Excerpt from In Berkshire FieldsWise mainly occupied, in the doubtless unscientific and haphazard observation of woodland folk and Winged, in the personalities of trees and the retreats of Wild ¿owers, that he has been moved to think such avocation cannot be Wholly evil, and that the scientists who deal With lovely or fascinating sen suons things must expect those lovely or fascinating things to be approached from other angles than theirs. One...

Excerpt from Green Trails and Upland Pastures Certain of the chapters of this book have previously appeared in various magazine, "Upland Pastures" in Scribner's, "Glacier Park, " "Where Glaciers Feed the Apple Roots, " "The Harvests of the Wild Places, " "Neighbors of the Winter Night, " "Weather and the Sky, " and "Nature and the Psalmist" in Harper's, "Trees" in the Century, "The Cohorts of the Frost, " "Bridges, " "Stone Walls, " and "Chri...

Excerpt from Skyline Camps: A Note Book of a Wanderer in Our Northwestern Mountains The author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Fred H. Kiser, of Portland, Oregon, less for the photographs which illustrate this book, and which speak for themselves, than for the weeks of pleasant companionship on the high trails, and the skillful guidance into wild and pleasant places. Few people realize the hardihood and the love of the wilderness re...

Excerpt from On the Edge of the Wilderness: Tales of Our Wild Animal Neighbors Winter followed, the game grew scarce. The great horned owls and the goshawks got most of the rabbits before Swiftfoot and his pack could round them up. The pack grew lean. They closed in around the trail over which the two-legged animals came, driving dog sledges. When the dogs smelled the wolf pack they barked and snarled and became ridiculously excited, and the ...

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Excerpt from Penguin Persons PeppermintsSpring Comes to Thumping Dick The Passing of the Stage Sundial On Singing Songs with One Finger The Immorality of Shop - windows A Forgotten American Poet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally ...

Excerpt from The Runaway Place: A May Idyl of Manhattan Around Saint Gaudens' golden group A little child pursues his hoop, Nor sees the twitching charger led By Victory, above his head, Of war and memories of war He knows not, Life lies all before, Just now sufficient for the day It is to seize the moment's play, And so around Saint Gaudens' group The little child pursues his hoop. Beyond the child we blithely mark The long green garden...

Excerpt from New York: A Series of Wood Engravings in Colour and a Note on Colour Printing by Rudolph Ruzicka AN instinctive love of colour often found expression in the art of wood engraving, as it did in all arts. The car liest examples of European wood engraving, dating from the beginning of the fifteenth century, were pictures of sacred subjects cut in bold outlines on blocks of wood and impressed on paper by means of rubbing. Their popul...

Excerpt from Echoes and Realities About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the origin...

Excerpt from Plays and Players: Leaves From a Critic's Scrapbook If it becomes known that any production that is made in one of our theaters is sure to be condemned by one of the leading papers in this city, that pro ducer will not bring his production to our theater unless we exclude the dramatic critic of that news paper from the attraction. I have been threatened that unless I get fair commented [3] criticism for a production made in my th...

Excerpt from At the New Theatre and Others, the American Stage: Its Problems and Performances, 1908-1910 During the seasons of 1908 - 09 and 1909-10 the most interesting developments in the American dramatic world have been the steady rise to strength of an opposition to the so-called Theatrical Syndicate and the opening of the New Theatre in New York. The New Theatre is still, after one season, an experiment. It is not truly an endowed insti...

Excerpt from The American Stage of to-Day The perspicacious reader is now prepared to inquire why, holding these estimable senti ments, the author is putting forward a book made Up in large measure of theatrical te views rescued from newspaper Oblivion for the immortality Of covers. (a pleasant little fic tion, this about the immortality Of covers, that authors are permitted to indulge in while writ ing their books!) And the perspicacious rea...

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