THE BACKWOODSMEN 



" The author displays keen powers of observation, and pos- 

 sesses an extensive knowledge of the creatures of the wild. His 

 pictures are drawn from nature with free, broad touches, and 

 are illuminated by imaginative vigour." The Scotsman. 



" Charles G. D. Roberts is well sampled in ' The Backwoods- 

 men.' He tells us much about men of the wild country. There 

 are arresting pictures of nature, there is more than a little of 

 humour, while pathetic touches are not lacking. There is room 

 for more of this brief and bracing style of story." Sheffield 

 Independent. 



" Mr. Roberts is a writer of great power, and his graphic 

 pictures of the strenuous life of the pioneer in the Wild West 

 are admirable pieces of work. The book is beautifully illus- 

 trated with about twenty plates, and is handsomely printed." 

 Glasgow Weekly Herald. 



" This is another volume in the interesting series of studies 

 of life in the open animals and nature which has very appro- 

 priately been preceded by ' The House in the Water.' It be- 

 trays the same freshness and knowledge in these directions. Mr. 

 Roberts is a lover of nature and its ways." The Northern Whig. 



" In his previous works, Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts showed 

 a great love of nature whch led to the title ' Poet Laureate of 

 the Animal World ' being applied to him. Those who read 

 his latest work, ' The Backwoodsmen,' will realize that this 

 description of the writer was no empty flattery. The volume 

 is made up by some fifteen stories, and in each there are abun- 

 dant traces of that keen appreciation of the animal world that 

 stamped his previous writings." Western Daily Press. 



" Few can better describe the wild life of the Canadian forest 

 than this well-known writer, who in a series of short stories of 

 river and lake, backwoodsmen and lumbermen, forest and hunt- 

 ing gives a vivid description of those phases of life in the back- 

 woods. The stories are full of incident and vigour, and will be 

 appreciated by readers who are acquainted with the previous 

 works of Mr. Roberts." Royal Colonial Institute Journal. 



" His accounts of the creatures of the backwoods, human and 

 other, are full of fun and spirit. His greatest excellence is in the 

 absolute clearness of his style. The veriest Cockney can picture 

 the adventures of his wildest pioneer, so plainly and vividly are 

 they told, quite apart from the twenty plates that help to make 

 the whole a gorgeous gift-book." Evening Standard. 



