. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . interests andsympathies of man which Tenny-son dreamed of in one of his mostsplendid poems. The share of William J. Longin all this deserves most cordial recog-nition. In the first place, he is a truenaturalist, a scientist in quest of knowl- c^ edge. Year after year he fares to the north-ern streams and forests to study animals intheir haunts and habitats, and in such booksas Fowls of the Air, Beasts of the Field,and the just issued School of the Woods
. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . interests andsympathies of man which Tenny-son dreamed of in one of his mostsplendid poems. The share of William J. Longin all this deserves most cordial recog-nition. In the first place, he is a truenaturalist, a scientist in quest of knowl- c^ edge. Year after year he fares to the north-ern streams and forests to study animals intheir haunts and habitats, and in such booksas Fowls of the Air, Beasts of the Field,and the just issued School of the Woods, atrilogy of volumes in which his distinctive workhas been gathered, he has given to the world theresult of his long and loving observation. Not for aninstant is he a sentimentalist; his purpose is not to makea pretty story. Some, to whom the weasel of song andstory, for example, is a graceful, charming creature, mayoe pained l^y his chapter on Kagax the Bloodthirsty,wherein that incredible little butcher is limned in histrue light and color. Yet that essay, sternly insistenton fact as it is, nevertheless is a prose idyl, the work j^i. 15 Appreciations of Mr. Long and his Work
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