The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-18
From the Christian Science Monito,

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 WIT ORD has come out of the woods
 \xf at West Park on the Hudson
 w river, New York, from John Burroughs the veteran naturalist, that the spring birds are returning fast aI.ei a winter that has been unusually long and severe In his rambles over the nils he is meeting great numbers or ropins, bluebirds, golden-wing woodpecl&ers ana song sparrows. Every day he walks ms miles, and every day he writes certalh number of pages for his new booiS' 10 De called ''Under the Apple Trees Wnlch everybody who is fond of nature and or John Burroughs, win want to read II is said that John Burroughs can see birds and hear them when they are out of the range of ordinary sight and hear inr. A walk with him through the. woods is described as perfect revelatlon ol animated nature, for it is not long before he enables others to see and to near what he sees and hears himself. speak ing of the Musicians of the Hemlock wood., he says: We little suspect when we walk in the woods, whose prl- vacy we intrude upon, what rare anu elegant visitors from Mexico, from Cen tral and South America and from the islands of the sea are holding reunions in the branches over our heads, or pur- s,,ing their pleasure on the ground be- fore us" Unless we possess the de- lirhtful faculties of the naturalist, it IS probable that we should miss 1t all.
 Enos Mills, John Burroughs, and natu- ralists of like stamp, can see warplers' hummingbrds, tanagers, grosbeaks, gold finches and scores of other species or feathered beauties where the ordinary woods rambler sees nothing but leaves. One went out walking in the woods or Indiana on an afternoon with stanley Waterloo, author of "The Story of AID,
 which has become classic, and heard and saw nothing in particular, except the trees and the underbrush and an. occa- sional squirrel or sparrow or jay, but in the course of the four or five hours spent in sauntering over bypaths, Stanley Waterloo collected sufficient material, from personal observation, for most in teresting and informing little work on "The Birds of Indiana" in which hun dreds of natives and visitors are minutely described.
 There are such people, and John Bur- roughs is one of them. Sometimes he sees and hears nothing but birds. His son, Julian recites an incident in illus tration of his fathers abstraction in cer- tain circumstances. The two were seated on a rise near the New York Central tracks on the east bank of sthe Hudson, close to block signal. While they sat there three express trains came to a sudden stop almost at their feet, were detained and were later moved by the signal To the younger man it seemed wonderful feat in applied mechanics that this could be done from a tower a great distance away. Moreover, about the same time some unusual light movements were visible on the surface of the Hudson, jus enough out of the ordinary at all events, to excite curiosity in so tAnouil
 a spot When the son at length suc- ceeded in arousng the father from his
 reverie. he discovered that the latter had noticed neither the operation of the block signal nor the peculiar light movement He had been listening, it developed. to
 blower back on the highlands.