TYPICAL LETTERS AND REVIEWS 
IN REPLY TO 
Mr. BuRROUGHS’ UNWARRANTED 
ATTACK ON Mr. LONG 
The Gist of Mr, Burroughs’ Attack 
4“ R. LONG’S book reads like that of a man who 
M has really never been to the woods, but who sits 
in his study and cooks up these yarns from things 
he has read in Forest and Stream, or in other 
sporting journals. Of real observation there 
is hardly a vestige in his book; of deliberate 
trifling with natural history there is no end. 
. Why should any one palm off such stuff 
on an unsuspecting public as veritable natural 
history? When a man, writing or speaking 
of his own experience, says without qualifi- 
cation that he has seen a thing, we are ex- 
pected to take him at his word. Mr. Long 
says his sketches were made in the woods, 
with the subjects themselves living just out- 
side his tent door, and that they are all life 
studies and include also some of the unusual 
life secrets of a score of animals and birds. 
. What the ‘life secrets’ are that he 
claims to have discovered, any competent 
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