. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . l as analyt-ically, and constantly reveals hissense of beauty by his descriptionof that great good place, out-doors, in which they move andhave their being. He tells it allin a style admirable for simplicity, lack of strain orstrut, picturesqueness, and artistic restraint. A quietand most enjoyable humor plays through his writings,furnishing foil and relief. A sense of the dramatic,too, is present when occasion calls. At times he pre-fers to put a poeti
. William J. Long and his books : a pamphlet consisting chiefly of typical letters and reviews in reply to Mr. Burroughs' attack on Mr. Long . l as analyt-ically, and constantly reveals hissense of beauty by his descriptionof that great good place, out-doors, in which they move andhave their being. He tells it allin a style admirable for simplicity, lack of strain orstrut, picturesqueness, and artistic restraint. A quietand most enjoyable humor plays through his writings,furnishing foil and relief. A sense of the dramatic,too, is present when occasion calls. At times he pre-fers to put a poetic impulse intoverse form instead of prose, andreaders of T/ie Outlook and otherperiodicals are aware how wellhe carries out this desire. Hamilton Wright Mabie. Associate Editor of the Outlook T^TTR. WILLIAMlYX J- LONG is a/ lover of wild life whose reports of ^ ^what goes on in earth ^^and air are fresh, vital, and picturesque. He has evi-dently been abroad at all hours and has surprisedbeasts and birds in their most unguarded Fowls of the Air and Beasts of the Field theout-of-doors world seems to live in all its multiform i6. Appreciations of Mr. Long and his Work
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