. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . to Characteristic Replies to Mr. Burroughs I have taken an afternoon off, reading once moreThe Idyl of the Honey Bee, The Invitation, The Tragedies of the Nests, and Glimpses ofWild Tife, that I might make sure that I still lovedJohn Burroughs, and then I read Wood Folk atSchool. You try it sometime. Read Burroughs athis best for an hour or two, and then read WilliamJ. Long, and you will understand why Burroughscannot read William J. Long with any patie
. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . to Characteristic Replies to Mr. Burroughs I have taken an afternoon off, reading once moreThe Idyl of the Honey Bee, The Invitation, The Tragedies of the Nests, and Glimpses ofWild Tife, that I might make sure that I still lovedJohn Burroughs, and then I read Wood Folk atSchool. You try it sometime. Read Burroughs athis best for an hour or two, and then read WilliamJ. Long, and you will understand why Burroughscannot read William J. Long with any patience, andyou will not love either the less, and you will surelyappreciate the matchless insight of Mr. Long into thelives of wood ^ ,^ APPRECIATIONS OF MR. LONGAND HIS WORK From The Boston Transcript THE WORK OF WILLIAM ]. LONG BY RICHARD BURTON \ HE nature and animal sketches~^^T*^ of William J. Long have a^ worthy part in a tendency of recent literature which is atonce welcome and beast epic, so called ofscholars, has a long and honor-able lineage in prose and since ^lisop — and indeedbefore that Eastern masterpiecegot itself into print — the animal had a place in theimaginative depiction of life in letters, and has beenused for purposes of instruction quite as much as forthe amusement to be derived from such a piquantmotif. Reynard the Fox — the German ReineckeFuchs — may be mentioned as a type of the treatmentof the beast in allegory by the older writers ; and in thehands of masters like La Fontaine or Goethe, ourolder brothers the beasts have become an integral andwell-loved section of folklore and later poetry. Thenaive handling of this sympathetic subject in our dayby J
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