PAGE I. ‘A Charm of Birds’ 1 II. Chalk-Stream Studies 27 III. The Fens 93 IV. My Winter-Garden 133 V. From Ocean to Sea 175 VI. North Devon 223 IS it merely a fancy that we English, the educated people among us at least, are losing that love for spring which among our old forefathers rose almost to worship? That the perpetual miracle of the budding leaves and the returning song-birds awakes no longer in us the astonishment which it awoke yearly among the dwellers in the old world, when the sun was a god who was sick to death each winter, and returned in spring to life and health, and glory; when the death of Adonis, at the autumnal equinox, was wept over by the Syrian women, and the death o…
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