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+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Books by John Burroughs. | | | | WORKS. Each volume, 16mo, gilt top, $1.25; the set, 11 vols., | | uniform, $13.75; half calf, gilt top, $27.50; half polished | | morocco, $30.25. | | | | WAKE-ROBIN. | | WINTER SUNSHINE. | | LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY. | | FRESH FIELDS. | | INDOOR STUDIES. | | BIRDS AND POETS, with Other Papers. | | PEPACTON, and Other Sketches. | | SIGNS AND SEASONS. | | RIVERBY. | | WHITMAN: A STUDY. | | THE LIGHT OF DAY: Religious Discussions and | | Criticisms from the Standpoint of a Naturalist. | | | | A YEAR IN THE FIELDS. Selections appropriate to each season | | of the year, from the writings of John Burroughs. Illustrated | | from Photographs by CLIFTON JOHNSON. Uniform with | | the _Riverside Edition_ of Burroughs's works. 12mo, $1.50. | | | | WHITMAN: A Study. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, $1.50, _net_. | | | | THE LIGHT OF DAY: Religious Discussions and Criticisms from | | the Standpoint of a Naturalist. _Riverside Edition._ 12mo, | | $1.50, _net_. | | | | WINTER SUNSHINE. _Cambridge Classics Series._ Crown 8vo, | | $1.00. | | | | WAKE-ROBIN. _Riverside Aldine Series._ 16mo, $1.00. | | | | SQUIRRELS AND OTHER FUR-BEARERS. Illustrated. Square 12mo, | | $1.00. | | | | HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright, 1894, 1895, BY JOHN BURROUGHS.
_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._ Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
I have often said to myself, "Why should not one name his books as he names his children, arbitrarily, and let the name come to mean much or little, as the case may be?" In the case of the present volume--probably my last collection of Out-of-door Papers--I have taken this course, and have given to the book the name of my place here on the Hudson, "Riverby," by the river, where the sketches were written, and where for so many years I have been an interested spectator of the life of nature, as, with the changing seasons, it has ebbed and flowed past my door.