INDEX
Reading edition
A
Abbott, Charles C., 13
Action, a struggle to overcome space and time, 131
Advertisements, hint as to taxing, 200
Alcohol, proper use of, 142 et seq.
All, the, 129 et seq.
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric, 128; quoted, 201, 202
Aphrodites, the two, 165
Appearance, something behind, 87
Arve, the river, 167
Autumn in Canada, 107 et seq.
Autumn reveries, 29
Avebury, Lord, quoted, 185, 186
B
Bannock, the, 156
Beans, how to cook, 157, 158
Beauty, 110; the appeal of, 164 et seq.; subjective character of, 165; various kinds of, ibid.; Goethe on, 194; Shelley on, 195
Being, the pæan of, 223 et seq.; immensity of, 225
Belloc, Hilaire, quoted, 151
Beverages, 142 et seq.
Blood corpuscles, an analogy from, 93 et seq.
Boots, 135
Borrow, George, 14; quoted, 160, 161
Browning, Robert, quoted, 163, 164
Buckinghamshire, a walk in, 31 et seq.
Burma, 15
Burroughs, John, 12; quoted, 75, 76
Byways, English, 21 et seq.
C
Calm, Matthew Arnold on, 77
Campbell, Professor W. W., quoted, 177
Canada, spring in, 45 et seq.; autumn in, 107 et seq.; 53 et seq.; winter in, 59 et seq.
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 196, 197
Carpenter, Edward, 103; quoted, 195, 196
Cattle, mountain, 172
Cave man, the, 138, 139
Cities, crowded populations of, 218 et seq.
Civilisation a mixed boon, 216 et seq.
Companion, an uncongenial, 113, 114
Conscience, 42 et seq.
Cosmos, the, 93
Country, the, calming influence of, 127
D
Darwin, Charles, quoted, 170, 171
Death, a change, 95
De Quincey, Thomas, quoted, 199
Details, practical, 152 et seq.
Dietary, the tramp's, 140 et seq.
Downs, the Sussex, 25 et seq.
Drama, a natural, 79 et seq.
E
East, the fascination of the, 19
Emigration, 222
England, byways in, 22 et seq.; a spring morning in, 25 et seq.
Enthusiasts, cautions for, 181 et seq.
Euripides, quoted, 194
Evening walks, 78 et seq.
Evil, origin of, 97 et seq.
F
Fatigue, a fictitious, 148
Fire, the nomad, 137 et seq.
Food, 140; importance of, 149 et seq.; 154 et seq.; details concerning, 153 et seq.
G
Georgian Bay, the, 53
Glacial epoch, the, 138, 139
Goethe, quoted, 194
Golf and walking, 1 et seq.; indictments against, ibid.; vindication of, 2; misapprehension concerning, 2, 3
Guérin, Eugénie de, quoted, 211
Guérin, Maurice de, quoted, 186, 187; 225, 226
H
Haig, Dr Alexander, 145
Harte, Bret, quoted, 159, 160
Hassocks, 25
Hearth, the, 137, 139
Hurstpierpoint, 25
I
Ideal, unrealisability of, 132
Impedimenta, 151
India, 17 et seq.
Infinite, the, 128; how that all things point to the, 188 et seq.
Instincts, primitive, 162 et seq.
J
Jefferies, Richard, 12; quoted, 184, 185
K
Kipling, Rudyard, quoted, 170
Kingston Road, the, 119, 120
Knapsack, contents of, 152 et seq.
L
Landscape, the beauty of, 159 et seq.
Life, a process, 37 et seq.; omnipresent, 42; 95; an absolute, 96
Literature, modern, 218, 219
M
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 12, 13
MacLane, Mary, quoted, 160
Meditations, evening, 78 et seq.
Memories, cosmic, 162
Memory, idea of time dependent on, 92, 93
Milk, value of, 147
Milky Way, the, 56
Morning air, a steriliser, 210
Morning walk, an early, 205; 208
Morning walks, 72 et seq.
Mountains, peacefulness of, 173, 174
Müller, Max, 112
Multiplicity, subjective character of, 95
Mystery, the, of nature, 39; 85; Carlyle on, 196, 197
N
Nature, spirituality of, 34 et seq.; a universe of subsistences, 51; unity of, 91; 93; beauty of, 164 et seq.; man's primæval habitat, 171; the language of, 193, 194; companionship of, 213
Neo-Platonists, 90
Nilgiris, the, 17
O
"Oberland Chalet, An," quoted, 143
Ontario, lake, 118, 119
Otonabee, river, 48
P
Pantry, the antiquity of the, 155
Pascal, quoted, 101
Plato, quoted, 165
Plotinus, 89, 90
Poynings, village, 25
R
Reason, inadequacy of, 97; and moral progress, 101, 102
Religious tenets, criterion of, 102
Responsibility, 96, 97
Rhône, the, 167
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, quoted, 202-204
Ruskin, John, quoted, 161; 220, 221
S
Salève, the Grand, 167 et seq.
Savoie, Haute, 172
Science, 191
Seclusion, benefits of, 117
Self-consciousness, 217, 218
Sénancour, quoted, 161
Sense, a seventh, 186
Solar system, motion of, 176, 177
"Son of the Marshes, A," 13
Soul, the, 113
Space, subjective character of, 91; 95
Spirit of eternal things, the, 39, 85
Stayner, 53
Stephen, Sir Leslie, 14
Strife, universality of, 176
Sunday in a country town, 121 et seq.
Sunshine, Canadian, 70, 71
T
Tea, as a stimulant, 145 et seq.
Tennyson, quoted, 190
Thatcher, T., quoted, 75
Thoreau, Henry D., 12; quoted, 200, 201
Thought, a struggle to conceive the infinite, 131
Time, subjective character of, 91, 92, 95
Toronto, 119
Tragedies, 124 et seq.
Transcendentalism, practical, 40 et seq.
Troglodytic families, 138
U
Unity, a spiritual, 112, 113
Universe, the, imagined as a sphere, 91
Uxbridge, 23
V
Van Dyke, Henry, 13
W
Walk, the essence of a, 5 et seq.; a woeful, 105 et seq.
Walkers, notable, 9 et seq.
Walking tour, preparations for a, 133 et seq.
Walking tours, 133 et seq.
Walks and walking, effects of golf upon, 2 et seq.; essence of, 5 et seq.; proper frame of mind for, ibid.; the mood for, 72 et seq.; the rivals of angling, 75; instinct for, 103, 104; the pleasures of, 198 et seq.
Walks, my earliest, 15 et seq.; in Burma, ibid.; in India, 17 et seq.; in England, 21 et seq.; on the Sussex Downs, 25 et seq.; in Buckinghamshire, 31 et seq.; in Canada, 45 et seq.; on the banks of the Otonabee, 47 et seq.; by the Georgian Bay, 53 et seq.; on the outskirts of an Ontarian country town, 59 et seq.; a woeful walk, 105, 106; from Toronto, along the Kingston Road, 107 et seq.; over one of the Passes of the Jura, 149, 150; on the Grand Salève, 167 et seq.; early on Monday mornings, 205, 206; of a Sunday before breakfast, 208 et seq.
Walton, Izaak, quoted, 72, 73, 74
Warnings, 180
Whiting, Charles Goodrich, 13
Will, 96, 97; freedom of the, 99 et seq.
Winter in Canada, 62 et seq.
Wood, Edith Elmer, quoted, 143 et seq.
Woods, Canadian, 63 et seq.
Wordsworth, William, quoted, 7, 111, 112
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