. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . cal Letters and Reviews IN REPLY TO Mr. Burroughs UnwarrantedAttack on Mr. Long The Gist of Mr. Burroughs Attack )VI ?R. LONGS book reads like that of a man whohas really never been to the woods, but who sitsin his study and cooks up these yarns from thingshe has read in Forest and Stream, or in othersporting journals. Of real observation thereis hardly a vestige in his book ; of deliberatetrifling with natural history there is no . Why should any
. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . cal Letters and Reviews IN REPLY TO Mr. Burroughs UnwarrantedAttack on Mr. Long The Gist of Mr. Burroughs Attack )VI ?R. LONGS book reads like that of a man whohas really never been to the woods, but who sitsin his study and cooks up these yarns from thingshe has read in Forest and Stream, or in othersporting journals. Of real observation thereis hardly a vestige in his book ; of deliberatetrifling with natural history there is no . Why should any one palm off such stuffon an unsuspecting public as veritable naturalhistory.^ When a man, writing or speakingof his own experience, says without qualifi-cation that he has seen a thing, we are ex-pected to take him at his word. Mr. Longsays his sketches were made in the woods,with the subjects themselves living just out-side his tent door, and that they are all lifestudies and include also some of the unusuallife secrets of a score of animals and . What the life secrets are that heclaims to have discovered, any competent. Characteristic Replies to Mr. Burroughs reader can see. They are all the inventions of Of the real secrets of wild life, I do not find atrace in his volume. — From Real and Sham NaturalHistory, the Atlantic Monthly, March, 1903. CHARACTERISTIC REPLIESTO MR. BURROUGHS From TKq Connecticut Magaz/nc,, No. of 1903 LONG, who for many years hasbeen a quiet and patient observerof animals in their native wilds,has of late given us some delight-ful books that profess to recordthese observations. Mr. Bur-roughs denies these observationscategorically ; calls them inven-tions, on the sole ground that heis himself an observer and hasnot seen these things; and condemns Mr. Long forperpetrating a fraud on an innocent public. This is a personal question between two writers ;the personal element must therefore enter into the dis-cussion of
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