Appreciations of Mr. Long cnd his Work 
From The Boston Advertiser, 
July 20, 1903 
of quality for this series of animal 
studies, —the book of the deer. 
Despite the strictures of very crit- 
ical critics, his studies of beasts of 
the field and fowls of the air are 
generally accepted as the testimony 
of a keen veteran, rarely endowed with capacity to con- 
vey from his printed page the wood spell felt by every 
wanderer in the forest. 
In this little volume, strongly illustrated by Charles 
Copeland, he tells the story of his first deer hunt in 
the Maine woods, when he learned to appreciate the 
cunning and splendid courage of the buck, and the 
treasured lesson of a dewdrop splashed from a leaf at 
daybreak; the testimony of crushed flower, broken 
brake, or bended grass blade, and the counsel of birch 
bark with a shred of deer velvet clinging to it. 
From The Christian Adococate 
HESE books are, in 
| our judgment, by far 
the best animal books 
which have yet appeared. ... 
From cover to cover they are packed with incident 
and keen observation and the curious ways of bird 
and beast. 
Only a deep love of nature and a lifelong training 
could produce such a book. The author is full of his 
subject to his finger tips. Whether calling the chick- 
adees among the pines of a New England farm, or calling 
bull moose in the heart of a Canada forest, the writer is 
among his own people. He knows the wood folk, and 
they evidently know him. He is a naturalist, hunter, 
poet, nature lover, all in one. His descriptions are 
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