"Regarding the author hitherto primarily as a naturalist we rediscover him as an acute psychologist.... For many readers the chief interest of the book will lie in the charming reflective presentment of the thoughts of a boy's mind."--_Bookman._ BIRDS IN TOWN AND VILLAGE With 8 Coloured Plates after E. J. Detmold Head and Tail Pieces by Herbert Cole "Mr. Hudson loves all birds; they are his work, his recreation, his life; he writes about them as no one else can: he sees what others miss."--_Manchester Guardian._ "This book is full of his unsurpassed perception and unique charm.... Some of his best passages about birds are equally delightful and vivid sketches of human life."--_Times Literary Supplement._ "Mr. Hudson is more than a naturalist. He is a man of genius who transmutes lead into gold--the lead of knowledge into the gold of feeling.... As you hear the music of his prose ... you recapture the delicious tenderness of childhood with its wistful wonder and vision.... Mr. Hudson is a nightingale naturalist with a voice that throbs in waves of magical melody." --James Douglas in _The Star_.