Appreciations of Mr. Long and his Work 
and hidden activities. Mr. Long has a fresh, sincere 
style, an eager curiosity, and a trained habit of obser- 
vation, and he writes with unaffected skill. 
From The Christian Register, 
Boston, Mass., December 
28, 1899 
R. LONG believes in the 
individuality of the wild 
eyeatures. He tells of 
asking a little child once how she 
knew her own little chicken from twenty others in the 
flock just like him. ‘ How do I know my chicken? 
Why, I know him by his little face!’”? And, sure 
enough, the face was quite different. So Mr. Long’s 
advice is, no matter how well you know the ways of 
crows, for instance, to watch the first that comes in 
your way quite as if he were an entire stranger; and 
you will surely find some new thing, some unrecorded 
way, to give you fresh interest in them. This eager 
spirit of the investigator goes through all the chapters. 
William Lyon Phelps, Professor of English Litera- 
ture in Yale University 
HAVE read Mr. Long’s books with close atten- 
tion, and they seem to me remarkable productions. 
His powers of observation are extraordinary; the 
simplicity of his style exhibits artistic powers of a high 
order; and his sympathy with animals is shown in a 
beautiful way. From the point of view of natural 
history, as well as that of literary art, these books are 
masterpieces. 
From The New York Tribune 
E know of no other student of animal life who 
has shown for the creatures of the forest such 
loving sympathy, such intuitive appreciation of 
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