. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . mals with Indian hunters whose wholelives have been studies of the natural andanimal worlds. Mr. Burroughs, who denies Dr. Longsobservations, has spent his life largely onthe farm. Of the great wilderness andof the animals among whom Dr. Long ismost at home, he has until recently hadno direct knowledge or personal experi-ence. His observations of the smalleranimals and birds of the farm are accu-rate and excellent; but there is absolutelynothing in thes
. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . mals with Indian hunters whose wholelives have been studies of the natural andanimal worlds. Mr. Burroughs, who denies Dr. Longsobservations, has spent his life largely onthe farm. Of the great wilderness andof the animals among whom Dr. Long ismost at home, he has until recently hadno direct knowledge or personal experi-ence. His observations of the smalleranimals and birds of the farm are accu-rate and excellent; but there is absolutelynothing in these observations to precluder^.— the possibility or even the probability of ** jy^ those recorded by Dr. Long. It is pass- *Sc^y ^g the bounds of criticism, as well as of reason, to say that what one observer seeson his farm in New York must limit what anotherobserver may see in the Maine wilderness — especiallywhen one remembers the fact that is emphasized bymost modern observers, namely, the individuality ofevery animal of the higher orders, which gives himhabits more or less different from every other individualof the same Characteristic Replies to Mr. Burroughs From Our Animal Friends, August, 1903 yyFHEN Mr. John Burroughs writes of something^J^^ that he knows, Mr. Burroughs writes instruct-ively and delightfully, — so charmingly indeedthat it is a thousand pities he should ever write aboutthings of which he knows a good deal less than hefancies. Mr. Burroughs is a gentleman who startedlife under heavy educational dis-advantages which it has been hisgreat merit to overcome to a con-siderable extent. He has acquired,for example, a correct and evengraceful style of writing English,though it is not free from curioussolecisms; but when he sets him-self up as a critical appraiser ofliterary values, his judgmentsare worth just as much and justas little as those of any other manof like attainments. Just so, whenMr. John Burroughs tells what hehimself has seen in his
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