Appreciations of Mr. Long and his Work 
of a poet; all the fear, tragedy, and depredation of the 
wood are imaginatively set forth with the touch of a 
true romanticist. One is enlarged in soul by reading 
it. Dr. Long is just as surely poet 
as scientist. 
He gives the animals he describes 
their quaint Indian names, and his 
love for them throbs through every 
line and picture. He sees them 
sympathetically as well as analyt- 
ically, and constantly reveals his 
sense of beauty by his description 
of “that great good place, out- 
doors,” in which they move and 
have their being. He tells it all 
in a style admirable for simplicity, lack of strain or 
strut, picturesqueness, and artistic restraint. A quiet 
and 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 into 
verse form instead of prose, and 
readers of 7he Outlook and other 
periodicals are aware how well 
he carries out this desire. 
Hamilton Wright Mabie, 
Associate Editor of the 
Outlook 
Mi WILLIAM : 
Ji: ILOINGaisza Ze 
lover of wild _ ees : 
life whose reports of “7*- > 
what goes on in earth 
and air are fresh, vital, and picturesque. He has evi- 
dently been abroad at all hours and has surprised 
beasts and birds in their most unguarded moments. 
In “ Fowls of the Air” and “ Beasts of the Field” the 
out-of-doors world seems to live in all its multiform 
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