Excerpt from The Little Review, Vol. 7: May June, 1920

It is no doubt this faculty that gives to Mr. Hudson's work the power to suggest vast very tranquil space and a man abso.utely at home in it, or motionless vegetation, a huge forest and a traveller who wishes to go nowhere, or ever to reach the forest bounds. F or you can suggest immensity in your rendering of the smallest of British birds if you know an immense deal about the bird itself, if you have watched innumerable similar birds, travelling over shires, countries, duchies, kingdoms, hemispheres - and always sel¿essly. So the ren dering of one individual bird will connote to the mind of your reader - if you happen to be Mr. Hudson l - the great distances of country in which you have travelled in order that, having seen so many such birds, you may so perfectly describe this one. Great plains will rise up before your reader's mind: immensely high skies, distant blue ranges, far woodlands. Tranquil spaces: immense dis tances! Consummate too! Because of course the Bon Dieu - I beg Mr. Conrad's pardon - the Good God did something consummate when he gave to Mr. Hudson a style that is like the green grass growing!

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