Books with author Charles P. Roberts

Not indolently soft, like that which sifts in green shadow through the leafage of a summer garden, but tense, alertly and mysteriously expectant, was the silence of the forest. It was somehow like a vast bubble of glass, blown to a fineness so tenuous that a small sound, were it but to strike the one preordained and mystic note, might shatter it down in loud ruin. Yet it had existed there flawless for generations, transmuting into its own quality all such infrequent and inconsequent disturbance as might arise from the far-off cry of the panther, or the thin chirp of the clambering nuthatch, the long, solemn calling of the taciturn moose, twice or thrice repeated under the round October moon, or the noise of some great wind roaring heavily in the remote tops of pine and birch and hemlock. Few and slender were the rays of sun that pierced down through those high tops. The air that washed the endless vistas of brown-green shadow was of a marvellous clarity, not blurred by any stain of dust or vapour. Its magical transparency was confusing to an eye not born and bred to it, making the far branches seem near, and the near twigs unreal, disturbing the accustomed perspective, and hinting of some elvish deception in familiar and apparent things.

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This edition includes a novel about life of a red fox and 36 short stories about different animals. Contents: Red Fox (a novel) The Moonlight Trails The Lord Of The Air Wild Motherhood The Homesickness Of Kehonka Savoury Meats The Boy And Hushwing A Treason Of Nature The Haunter Of The Pine Glooms The Watchers Of The Camp Fire When Twilight Falls On The Stump Lots The King Of The Mamozekel In Panoply Of Spears Do Seek Their Meat From God "The Young Ravens That Call Upon Him" Strayed The Watchers In The Swamp Quills The Indifferent Stripes The Unconcerned The Black Mule Of Aveluy Star-Nose Of The Under Ways Kroof, The She-Bear The Initiation Of Miranda On The Roof Of The World Black Swamp The Isle Of Birds The Antlers Of The Caribou The Sentry Of The Sedge-Flats A Tree-Top Aeronaut The Theft The Tunnel Runners A Torpedo In Feathers How A Cat Played Robinson Crusoe Little Bull Of The Barrens The Tiger Of The Sea Gray Lynx’s Last Hunting Mothers Of The North

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...fessor Leone Levi, Dr. F. A. Mahomed, Mr. J. E. Price, Lieut.-General Pirr-EiVERS, Sir Rawson W. Eawson, and Mr. C. Egberts. Associates, Dr. T. G. Balfour, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Inspector-General Lawson, Dr. W. Ogle.' Drawn up by Mr. C. Egberts and Sir Eawson W. Eawson. plates IV.--X. 1. The Committee, originally appointed in 1875, and aided by successive grants, of which it has expended 2801., has made a Report in each of the five years 1878 to 1882, and now submits its final Report. 2. Not that the work open to the Committee is exhausted, although it has to a great extent supplied what was pointed out in its Reports of 1881 and 1882 as chiefly wanting, or that its conclusions are to its own mind complete and satisfactory. But it would require more time and larger funds than are at the disposal of the Committee to prosecute its inquiries, even with the materials now in its possession, to the end which it has had in view; and the Committee is of opinion that the most useful course will be to bring before the Association the results of its past labours, indicating at the same time the conclusions which it considers to be sufficiently established by the facts ascertained, and the deficiencies, both of data and methods, which remain to be supplemented, either by individual exertion, or by the reappointment of a similar Committee at some future period undf r the auspices of the Association. 3. In order to furnish a complete review of the information obtained, it will be necessary to refer to tables and data contained in previous reports. A list of these Reports is furnished in a note.2 Objects and Operations of the Committee. 4. The Committee was appointed for the purpose of collecting obser» vations on the systematic examination of the height, weight, and ...

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