Abstract

Pictures in Prose

The article focuses on the book "Pictures in Prose," by Aubyn Trevor-Battye. In this volume, which deals with "nature, wild sport, and humble life." Battye has collected some papers which have appeared in "Longman's Magazine" and the "Saturday Review." His title is to some extent misleading, for he is easily moved to verse, and not a few of his pictures are presented in metrical form. The first, and perhaps the best, of his pictures shows the busy life of a trapper and lumberman in a Scandinavian forest, and tells with much pathos how a favorite daughter lost her way and was found by her frantic father killed by one of his own dead-fall traps. Then the scene shifts to England, to the strange little island of Canvey, little known to Londonors.