AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF THE SEASONS," ETC.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS.

Ang 39.6

siziz vardi College inbrary
17 Nov. 1892,

Gift of

BARTLEM of Cambridge

JOFIN

LONDON:
PRINTED BY MANNING AND SMITHSON,

IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME II.-PART I.

CHAPTER I.

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Love of the Sublime and Beautiful in Nature more eminently

developed in Modern than in Classical Literature- The

Fact striking, that the Love of Nature is so conspicuous in

our Literature, more faint in that of the Continent, still

more in that of the Ancients - This Affection only developed

in proportion to the Intellectual Culture of our Nature-

The same objects pursued in Art as in Literature, the Sub-

lime and Beautiful— The Greek Poets more cognizant of

the Amenities than the Sublimity of Nature Homer the

greatest Exception- Instances of his higher Perceptions-

Hesiod nearly destitute of it Theocritus most alive to the

Picturesque-His Picture of the Two Fishermen, of King

Anycus, of a Drinking-cup-His luxurious sense of Out-

of-Door Enjoyment-Love of Nature amongst the Romans

-One Cause of the continuance of their Simplicity of Life

-Instanced in Virgil, Horace, and Cicero-Modern Litera-

ture a New World of Feeling and Sentiment-Difference

between Longinus and Burke-Love of Nature in the

Ancients, incidental - Ours a perpetual Affection - In-

stanced in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron-Originating

cause to be found in Christianity-Development of it in

the Hebrew Literature-Completion of it in the Christian

Revelation-Proofs of this

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Literature kindred to the English-The Idylls of Voss

Testimony of a French Writer to our greater Love of

Nature-lhe Influence of the Writings of John Wilson in

Blackwood's Magazine, and of Bewick's Wood-cuts

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CHAPTER III.

Influence of Wood-engraving on the Love of the Picturesque in

the Country-Introduction of Stereotyping Wood-cuts in

the Cheap Magazines- Probable Results from the Use of

the Art-In what respects Wood is superior to Copper or

Steel — Causes that prevent the Successors of Bewick equal-

ling him in Knowledge of Nature-How this Defect is to

be remedied

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PART II.

THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND.

CHAPTER I.

The Forests of England-Our Forests amongst our most in-

teresting Objects-Scenery of England as we may suppose

it in the Feudal Ages, and as it is now— Charms with which

our Imaginations and Town Restraints have invested the

Feudal Times- Antiquity of our Forests~Derivation of

the name,New Forest created by the Conqueror; Sixty-

seven Forests previously existing- Various opinions respect-

ing the Origin of New Forest—The Ravages of William,

and the Death of his Two Sons and Grandson in it.-Num-

ber of Forests, Chases, and Parks formerly belonging to the

Crown Forest System an Imperium in Imperio - Its

Courts, Laws, and Officers - Consequences of the few

Judges, and long Intervals between Trials-Severity of

both Laws and Oaths on the Officers-Freeholds granted

in Forests subject to the Forest Laws, Forest-boundaries

of a peculiar Description-Drifts of the Forest-Barbarous

Penalties for killing Deer decreed by the Norman Kings-

These softened by successive Monarchs-Preamble of the

Assise of the Forest of Edward I.-Law of Attachment of

Offenders in the Forest expressed in an old Rhyme-

Lawing of Dogs; in what it consisted— Other curious Pro-

visions of the Assises of the Forests—Regarders appointed

by Henry II. — Their Duties—Inquisitions into the state of

Forests by Elizabeth— The Forest Laws disused after the

Revolution-List of the Ancient Forests

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