Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
CHAPTER PAGE I. ON RECREATION GROUNDS FOR NORWICH 9 II. ON TEMPERANCE AND AIDS TO TEMPERANCE 15 III. ON TORTOISES—_With Illustration_, 1908 29 IV. A FURTHER NOTE UPON TORTOISES 38 V. MY CHRISTMAS GARDEN PARTY 44 VI. MY CITY GARDEN IN “A CITY OF GARDENS” 53 VII. PRESIDENTIAL AD...
There is a population to deal with, a people largely and often exhaustively occupied during the day, and so occupied, that a large portion of it requires some relaxation in the...
3. Part 3Mr. White remarks that his Tortoise did not bury itself into the ground before November 1st, but ours are cold and torpid, and quite ready to hybernate by the first week in Octo...
8. Part 8Opinions as to the desirability of the ringing of the _Church Bells_ in towns differ, as we know, considerably. And every now and then we read a letter in a newspaper in condemn...
4. Part 4I have observed that the birds usually arrive pretty constantly in the following order:—Sparrows, Starlings, Thrushes, Blackbirds, Robins, Jackdaws, Rook; though sometimes neith...
5. Part 5We all know of the very numerous observers of and writers upon these little creatures; and their works, from Huber down to Sir John Lubbock, will be more or less familiar to us...
9. Part 9I have said that Sir Thomas Browne was buried in the Chancel of St. Peter Mancroft Church. Here he appears to have rested in peace for nearly two hundred years, when in 1840—as...
7. Part 7The Church is a fine perpendicular flint-work structure. The tower is large and well proportioned. It is battlemented and crowned with a small bell-cot and weather-cock. It is r...
6. Part 6I trust I may be forgiven if I recall your attention for a few moments to this subject of Germ life, more particularly as it branches out and develops in a more vital direction;...
1. Part 1CHAPTER PAGE I. ON RECREATION GROUNDS FOR NORWICH 9 II. ON TEMPERANCE AND AIDS TO TEMPERANCE 15 III. ON TORTOISES—_With Illustration_, 1908 29 IV. A FURTHER NOTE UPON TORTOISES...
10. Part 10Dr. Johnson says of him “There is no science of which he does not discover some skill; and scarce any kind of knowledge profane or sacred, obstruse or elegant, which he does not...