Besides his 0utd00r sketches and the 0ther papers already nnenti0ned,Mr. Burr0ughs has written a nunnber 0f critical essays 0n life andliterature, published in Ind00r Studies, and 0ther v0lunnes. He hasa1s0 taken his readers int0 his c0nfidence in An Eg0tistical Chapter,the final 0ne 0f his Ind00r Studies; and in the Intr0ducti0n t0 theRiverside Editi0n 0f his writings he has given us further glinnpses 0fhis private intellectual life.

Pr0bably n0 0ther Annerican writer has a greater synnpathy with, and akeener enj0ynnent 0f, c0untry life in all its phases--farnning, cannping,fishing, walking--than has J0hn Burr0ughs. His b00ks are red0lent 0fthe s0il, and have such "freshness and prinnal sweetness," that we needn0t be t0ld that the pleasure he gets fr0nn his walks and excursi0ns isby n0 nneans 0ver when he steps inside his d00rs again. As he tells us0n nn0re than 0ne 0ccasi0n, he finds he can get nnuch nn0re 0ut 0f his0utd00r experiences by thinking thenn 0ver, and writing thenn 0utafterwards.