The Lone Wolf
(See page 61)
Days Before History
UNIFORM WITH THIS BOOK
In Nature’s School
By LILIAN GASK
With Sixteen exquisite Full-page Illustrationsand a Title-page Design
By DOROTHY HARDY
THIS STORY details the experiencesof a sensitive boy who, in amoment of revolt, flees from the oppressionof some cruel schoolfellows into the woods,where he meets Nature, who takes himround the world and shows to him herkingdom of fur and feather. The child isintroduced to all manner of beasts andbirds, and learns valuable lessons of kindnessand toleration, while at the sametime the facts of natural history are notdistorted to serve the purpose of a story.Everything is true to facts, so far as theyare known from observation and fromthe best authorities.
The Illustrations are of quite unusualmerit, and will establish the claims of thistalented artist to a place amongst the bestEnglish interpreters of animal life.
DAYS BEFORE
HISTORY
BY
H·R·HALL
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
A·M·RANDALL
George·G·Harrap·&·Co
15 York Street·Covent Garden
London
FIRST EDITION
November 1906, 5000; December 1907, 5000.
SECOND EDITION
Revised, Enlarged, and Newly Illustrated, September 1908, 3000.
Letchworth; At the Arden Press
Preface to the New Edition
IN a book of this kind nothing morewill be expected than an outlinesketch of some phases of the lifelived by the prehistoric dwellersin our land. The known facts arefew; yet there must have been, even in thosefar-away times, well-defined differences of habitand custom due to local circumstances; so thatdetails more or less true of one tribe or groupwould possibly be quite untrue of others.
But, for all that, there are various conclusionsupon which the learned may be consider