INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

JOHN BURROUGHS

Compiled by David Widger

BURROUGHS

CONTENTS

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##  BIRDS AND BEES, SHARP EYES AND OTHERS

##  WAKE-ROBIN

##  WINTER SUNSHINE

##  IRDS AND POETS

##  TIME AND CHANGE

##  LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY

##  MY BOYHOOD

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

##  PEPACTON

##  IN THE CATSKILLS

##  THE BREATH OF LIFE

##  THE LAST HARVEST

##  THE WIT OF A DUCK AND OTHERS

##  SQUIRRELS AND OTHER FUR-BEARERS

##  BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHS

##  UNDER THE MAPLES

##  WAYS OF NATURE

##  WHITMAN

##  A YEAR IN THE FIELDS

##  CAMPING & TRAMPING WITH ROOSEVELT

##  WAKE-ROBIN, Illustrated

##  FRESH FIELDS

##  RIVERBY

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

BIRDS AND BEES, SHARP EYES, AND OTHER PAPERS

By John Burroughs

With An Introduction By Mary E. Burt

And A Biographical Sketch

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.

BIRDS.

BIRD ENEMIES.

THE TRAGEDIES OF THE NESTS

BEES.

AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE.

THE PASTORAL BEES

SHARP EYES AND OTHER PAPERS

SHARP EYES.

THE APPLE.

A TASTE OF MAINE BIRCH.

WINTER NEIGHBORS.

NOTES BY THE WAY.

I. THE WEATHER-WISE MUSKRAT

II. CHEATING THE SQUIRRELS.

III. FOX AND HOUND.

IV. THE WOODCHUCK

WAKE-ROBIN

THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS

With Portraits And Many Illustrations

VOL. I

CONTENTS

| INTRODUCTION TO RIVERSIDE EDITION
I.   | THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS
II.   | IN THE HEMLOCKS
III.   | THE ADIRONDACKS
IV.   | BIRDS'-NESTS
V.   | SPRING AT THE CAPITAL
VI.   | BIRCH BROWSINGS
VII.   | THE BLUEBIRD
VIII.   | THE INVITATION
| INDEX

THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS

VOL. II

WINTER SUNSHINE

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

| PREFATORY
| WINTER SUNSHINE
I | WINTER SUNSHINE
II | THE EXHILARATIONS OF THE ROAD
III | THE SNOW-WALKERS
IV | THE FOX
V | A MARCH CHRONICLE
VI | AUTUMN TIDES
VII | THE APPLE
VIII | AN OCTOBER ABROAD
| INDEX

BIRDS AND POETS

WITH OTHER PAPERS

THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS, VOL. III

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

PREFACE

BIRDS AND POETS

I. | BIRDS AND POETS
II. | TOUCHES OF NATURE
III. | A BIRD MEDLEY
IV. | APRIL
V. | SPRING POEMS
VI. | OUR RURAL DIVINITY
VII. | BEFORE GENIUS
VIII.     | BEFORE BEAUTY
IX. | EMERSON
X. | THE FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE

TIME AND CHANGE

By John Burroughs

1912

CONTENTS

| PREFACE
| TIME AND CHANGE
I | THE LONG ROAD
II | THE DIVINE ABYSS
III | THE SPELL OF THE YOSEMITE
IV | THROUGH THE EYES OF THE GEOLOGIST
V | HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII
VI | THE OLD ICE-FLOOD
VII | THE FRIENDLY SOIL
VIII | PRIMAL ENERGIES
IX | SCIENTIFIC FAITH
X | "THE WORM STRIVING TO BE MAN"
XI | THE PHANTOMS BEHIND US
XII | THE HAZARDS OF THE PAST
XIII | THE GOSPEL OF NATURE

THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS

VOL. IV

LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY

CONTENTS

I. | THE PASTORAL BEES
II. | SHARP EYES
III. | STRAWBERRIES
IV. | IS IT GOING TO RAIN?
V. | SPECKLED TROUT
VI. | BIRDS AND BIRDS
VII. | A BED OF BOUGHS
VIII. | BIRDS'-NESTING
IX. | THE HALCYON IN CANADA
| INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JOHN BURROUGHS
From a photograph

WHIP-POOR WILL
From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes

TROUT STREAM
From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason

YELLOW BIRCHES
From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason

LEDGES
From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason

KINGFISHER (colored)
From a drawing by L. A. Fuertes

MY BOYHOOD

By John Burroughs

With A Conclusion By His Son Julian Burroughs

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

MY BOYHOOD, BY JOHN BURROUGHS

MY FATHER, BY JULIAN BURROUGHS

PEPACTON

THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS

VOL. V

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

| PREFACE
| PEPACTON
I. | A SUMMER VOYAGE
II. | SPRINGS
III. | AN IDYL OF THE HONEY-BEE
IV. | NATURE AND THE POETS
V. | NOTES BY THE WAY
VI. | FOOTPATHS
VII. | A BUNCH OF HERBS
VIII. | WINTER PICTURES
| INDEX

IN THE CATSKILLS

By John Burroughs

With Illustrations From Photographs By Clifton Johnson

CONTENTS

| INTRODUCTION
I | THE SNOW-WALKERS
II | A WHITE DAY AND A RED FOX
III | PHASES OF FARM LIFE
IV | IN THE HEMLOCKS
V | BIRDS'-NESTS
VI | THE HEART OF THE SOUTHERN CATSKILLS
VII | SPECKLED TROUT
VIII | A BED OF BOUGHS

ILLUSTRATIONS

A DISTANT VIEW OF SLIDE MOUNTAIN   Frontispiece

THE FOX-HUNTER AND HIS HOUND

AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE DELAWARE
Overlooking Mr. Burroughs's boyhood home

FINDING A BIRD'S-NEST

THE WITTENBERG FROM WOODLAND VALLEY

A TROUT STREAM

THE BEAVERKILL

SOME PEOPLE OF THE CATSKILLS

THE BREATH OF LIFE

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

I. | The Breath of Life | 1
II. | The Living Wave | 24
III. | A Wonderful World | 46
IV. | The Baffling Problem | 71
V. | Scientific Vitalism | 104
VI. | A Bird of Passage | 115
VII. | Life and Mind | 131
VIII. | Life and Science | 159
IX. | The Journeying Atoms | 188
X. | The Vital Order | 212
XI. | The Arrival of the Fit | 244
XII. | The Naturalist's View of Life | 254
Index | 291

THE LAST HARVEST

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

I. |  | Emerson and his Journals | 1
II. |  | Flies in Amber | 86
III. |  | Another Word on Thoreau | 103
IV. |  | A Critical Glance into Darwin | 172
V. |  | What makes a Poem? | 201
VI. |  | Short Studies in Contrasts: | 218
|  | The Transient and the Permanent | 218
|  | Positive and Negative | 219
|  | Palm and Fist | 220
|  | Praise and Flattery | 221
|  | Genius and Talent | 222
|  | Invention and Discovery | 223
|  | Town and Country | 226
VII. |  | Day by Day | 230
VIII. |  | Gleanings | 250
IX. |  | Sundown Papers: | 264
|  | Re-reading Bergson | 264
|  | Revisions | 266
|  | Bergson and Telepathy | 267
|  | Meteoric Men and Planetary Men | 270
|  | The Daily Papers | 272
|  | The Alphabet | 275
|  | The Reds of Literature | 276
|  | The Evolution of Evolution | 279
|  | Following One's Bent | 280
|  | Notes on the Psychology of Old Age | 281
|  | Facing the Mystery | 285
|  | Index | 291

THE WIT OF A DUCK

AND OTHER PAPERS

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

I. | The Wit of a Duck | 5
II. | An Astonished Porcupine | 10
III. | Human Traits in the Animals | 14
IV. | The Downy Woodpecker | 22
V. | A Barn-Door Outlook | 27
VI. | Wild Life in Winter | 47
VII. | Bird Life in Winter | 54
VIII. | A Birds' Free Lunch | 63
IX. | Bird-Nesting Time | 70
X. | A Breath of April | 77
XI. | The Woodcock's Evening Hymn | 83
XII. | The Coming of Summer | 89

SQUIRRELS AND OTHER FUR-BEARERS

By John Burroughs

With Fifteen Illustrations In Colors After Audubon

CONTENTS

CHAP. |  | PAGE
I. | Squirrels | 1
II. | The Chipmunk | 15
III. | The Woodchuck | 32
IV. | The Rabbit and the Hare | 38
V. | The Muskrat | 43
VI. | The Skunk | 48
VII. | The Fox | 53
VIII. | The Weasel | 72
IX. | The Mink | 90
X. | The Raccoon | 94
XI. | The Porcupine | 98
XII. | The Opossum | 106
XIII. | Wild Mice | 111
XIV. | Glimpses of Wild Life | 125
XV. | A Life of Fear | 135
Index | 145

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

| PAGE
Red Fox (page 53) (From a photograph by Wm. Lyman Underwood, Belmont, Mass.) Frontispiece
Flying Squirrel | 4
Gray Squirrel | 8
Chipmunk | 18
Woodchuck | 34
Gray Rabbit | 40
Muskrat | 46
Skunk | 50
Weasel | 74
Mink | 90
Raccoon | 96
Porcupine | 102
Opossum | 108
White-footed Mouse | 112
Jumping Mouse | 120
Red Squirrel | 136

BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHS

Sketches Of Bird Life Taken From The Works Of John Burroughs

With Illustrations By Louis Agassiz Fuertes

CONTENTS

The Bluebird | 1
The Bluebird (poem) | 13
The Robin | 15
The Flicker | 21
The Phœbe | 28
The Coming of Phœbe (poem) | 31
The Cowbird | 33
The Chipping Sparrow | 36
The Chewink | 39
The Brown Thrasher | 42
The House Wren | 47
The Song Sparrow | 53
The Chimney Swift | 61
The Oven-Bird | 69
The Catbird | 72
The Bobolink | 77
The Bobolink (poem) | 82
The Wood Thrush | 83
The Baltimore Oriole | 91
The Whip-poor-will | 95
The Black-throated Blue Warbler: A Search for a Rare Nest | 100
The Marsh Hawk: A Marsh Hawk's Nest, a Young Hawk, and a Visit to a Quail on her Nest | 106
The Winter Wren | 119
The Cedar-Bird | 122
The Goldfinch | 125
The Hen-Hawk | 130
The Ruffed Grouse, or Partridge | 133
The Partridge (poem) | 137
The Crow | 138
The Crow (poem) | 144
The Northern Shrike | 147
The Screech Owl | 151
The Chickadee | 157
The Downy Woodpecker | 161
The Downy Woodpecker (poem) | 169
Index | 173

ILLUSTRATIONS

Goldfinch (in color). (page 125) | Frontispiece
A Pair of Bluebirds | 8
Flicker (in color) | 22
Chewink, Male and Female (in color) | 40
Wood Thrush | 84
Baltimore Oriole, Male and Female | 92
Whip-poor-will | 96
Downy Woodpecker (in color) | 162

UNDER THE MAPLES

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

I. | The Falling Leaves | 1
II. | The Pleasures of a Naturalist | 11
III. | The Flight of Birds | 32
IV. | Bird Intimacies | 39
V. | A Midsummer Idyl | 69
VI. | Near Views of Wild Life | 79
VII. | With Roosevelt at Pine Knot | 101
VIII. | A Strenuous Holiday | 109
IX. | Under Genial Skies | 127

I. | A Sun-Blessed Land | 127
II. | Lawn Birds | 129
III. | Silken Chambers | 132
IV. | The Desert Note | 143
V. | Sea-Dogs | 148

X. | A Sheaf of Nature Notes | 152

I. | Nature's Wireless | 152
II. | Maeterlinck on the Bee | 156
III. | Odd or Even | 163
IV. | Why and How | 165
V. | An Insoluble Problem | 167
VI. | A Live World | 169
VII. | Darwinism and the War | 172
VIII. | The Robin | 175
IX. | The Weasel | 177
X. | Misinterpreting Nature | 179
XI. | Natural Sculpture | 181

XI. | Ruminations | 184

I. | Man a Part of Nature | 184
II. | Marcus Aurelius on Death | 185
III. | The Interpreter of Nature | 186
IV. | Original Source | 190
V. | The Cosmic Harmony | 191
VI. | Cosmic Rhythms | 193
VII. | The Beginnings of Life | 194
VIII. | Spendthrift Nature | 195

XII. | New Gleanings in Field and Wood | 197

I. | Sunrise | 197
II. | Nature's Methods | 199
III. | Heads and Tails | 205
IV. | An Unsavory Subject | 206
V. | Chance in Animal Life | 208
VI. | Mosquitoes and Fleas | 210
VII. | The Change of Climate in Southern California | 210
VIII. | All-Seeing Nature | 212

Index | 217

WAYS OF NATURE

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

|  |  | PAGE
I. |  | Ways of Nature | 1
II. |  | Bird-Songs | 29
III. |  | Nature with Closed Doors | 47
IV. |  | The Wit of a Duck | 53
V. |  | Factors in Animal Life | 59
VI. |  | Animal Communication | 87
VII. |  | Devious Paths | 109
VIII. |  | What do Animals Know? | 123
IX. |  | Do Animals Think and Reflect? | 151
X. |  | A Pinch of Salt | 173
XI. |  | The Literary Treatment of Nature | 191
XII. |  | A Beaver's Reason | 209
XIII. |  | Reading the Book of Nature | 231
XIV. |  | Gathered by the Way |
| I. | THE TRAINING OF WILD ANIMALS | 239
| II. | AN ASTONISHED PORCUPINE | 242
| III. | BIRDS AND STRINGS | 246
| IV. | MIMICRY | 248
| V. | THE COLORS OF FRUITS | 251
| VI. | INSTINCT | 254
| VII. | THE ROBIN | 261
| VIII. | THE CROW | 265
|  | Index | 273

WHITMAN

A STUDY

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

| page
Preliminary | 1
Biographical and Personal | 23
His Ruling Ideas and Aims | 73
His Self-Reliance | 85
His Relation to Art and Literature | 101
His Relation to Life and Morals | 169
His Relation to Culture | 205
His Relation to his Country and his Times | 229
His Relation to Science | 249
His Relation to Religion | 257
A Final Word | 263

A YEAR IN THE FIELDS

Selections From The Writings Of John Burroughs

Illustrations From Photographs By Clifton Johnson

CONTENTS

|  | PAGE
John Burroughs: a Biographical Sketch | vii
I. | A Snow-storm | 1
II. | Winter Neighbors | 13
III. | A Spring Relish | 41
IV. | April | 67
V. | Birch Browsings | 85
VI. | A Bunch of Herbs. |
|     Fragrant Wild Flowers | 125
|     Weeds | 135
VII. | Autumn Tides | 159
VIII. | A Sharp Lookout | 179

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

| PAGE
A Hawk in Sight | Frontispiece
Riverby, Mr. Burroughs's Home on the Hudson | viii
"Slabsides" | x
Tracks in the Snow | 2
The Study | 8
Out for a Walk | 14
The Old Apple-tree | 18
Winter at Riverby on the Hudson | 26
Wood for the Study Fire | 38
An Evening in Spring | 42
At the Study Door | 50
A Woodland Brook | 62
An April Day | 70
The Home of a Spider | 86
A Bird Song | 98
In the Woods | 122
Picking Wild Flowers | 134
A Flower in a Woodland Roadway | 146
A Stalwart Weed | 156
Among the Rocks | 160
On the Edge of a Catskill "Sugar Bush" | 166
A Catskill Roadway | 182
Beechnuts | 194
    (Mr. Burroughs's Boyhood Home seen in the distance.) |
By the Study Fire | 206

CAMPING and TRAMPING WITH ROOSEVELT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

By John Burroughs

ILLUSTRATIONS

| PAGE
The President on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley | Frontispiece
Arrival at Gardiner, Montana | 10
The President, Mr. Burroughs and Secretary Loeb | 24
The President in the Bear Country | 38
Mr. Burroughs's Favorite Pastime | 50
Sunrise in the Yellowstone | 64
The President on a Trail | 72
The President's Home on Sagamore Hill, showing addition known as the Trophy Room | 82
A Bit of Woodland on the Slope towards Oyster Bay | 88
A Path in the Woods leading to Cold Spring Harbor | 92
A Yearling in the Apple Orchard | 98
Hallway, Sagamore Hill | 106

WAKE-ROBIN, Illustrated

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS.

PAGE
I. | The Return of the Birds | 9
II. | In the Hemlocks | 47
III. | Adirondac | 83
IV. | Birds’-nests | 109
V. | Spring at the Capital | 145
VI. | Birch Browsings | 177
VII. | The Bluebird | 211
VIII. | The Invitation | 225

FRESH FIELDS

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

PAGE
I. | Nature in England | 1
II. | English Woods: A Contrast | 35
III. | In Carlyle's Country | 45
IV. | A Hunt for the Nightingale | 77
V. | English and American Song-Birds | 113
VI. | Impressions of some English Birds | 131
VII. | In Wordsworth's Country | 147
VIII. | A Glance at British Wild Flowers | 159
IX. | British Fertility | 175
X. | A Sunday in Cheyne Row | 199
XI. | At Sea | 267
| Index | 277

RIVERBY

By John Burroughs

CONTENTS

PAGE
I. | Among the Wild-Flowers | 1
II. | The Heart of the Southern Catskills | 33
III. | Birds' Eggs | 61
IV. | Bird Courtship | 77
V. | Notes from the Prairie | 87
VI. | Eye-Beams | 111
VII. | A Young Marsh Hawk | 133
VIII. | The Chipmunk | 145
IX. | Spring Jottings | 155
X. | Glimpses of Wild Life | 171
XI. | A Life of Fear | 193
XII. | Lovers of Nature | 203
XIII. | A Taste of Kentucky Blue-Grass | 221
XIV. | In Mammoth Cave | 241
XV. | Hasty Observation | 251
XVI. | Bird Life in an Old Apple-Tree | 271
XVII. | The Ways of Sportsmen | 277
XVIII. | Talks with Young Observers | 283
| Index | 317