TIJE BOOKS OF CLARENCE 

 HAWKES 



IT is with a feeling of awe and wonder that 

 I take up each new book from the pen of 

 Clarence Hawkes. Here is the born nature- 

 lover, the woodsman, the chronicler and the 

 painter of mental pictures who for a few brief 

 years looked into the pulsing heart of Nature, 

 focused his mental camera upon her during a 

 few brilliant days, and then suddenly, with a 

 stroke like lightning, all the world became 

 dark. 



The work of Clarence Hawkes marks the 

 triumph of an indomitable human Soul over 

 darkness and despair. With marvellous 

 fidelity he paints what he has seen and yet 

 remembers, and for the rest he gathers his 

 share of wild animal lore, just as we all 

 do, from the hunter, the trapper, the bird- 

 man and the brother naturalist. The natural- 

 ist or nature lover who writes only what he 



