Excerpt from Riverby Ihave often said to myself, Why should not one name his books as he names his children, arbi trarily, and let the name come to mean much or little, as the case may be In the case of the present volume probably my last collection of Out of-door Papers - I have taken this course, and have giyen to the book the name of my place here on the Hudson, Riverby, by the river, where the sketches were written, and where for so many years I have been an interested spectator of the life of nature, as, with the changing seasons, it has ebbed and flowed past my door. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.