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Books. The Canadian stories, however, are sufficiently differ- 

 erent in treatment, scenery, and in the animals they introduce, 

 to appeal with something of novel force to present-day 

 readers. 



The first and best of these animal books is Mr. Ernest 

 Sston-Thompson s "Wild Animals I Have Known." ^ Since 

 the publication of this delightful collection of animal tales, 

 Mr. Seton-Thompson has brought out two additional stories, 

 the first entitled, "The Trail of the Sand-Hill Stag," -' and 

 the second, " The Biography of a Grizzly." ^ 



Another book of the same class is Mr. W. A. Fraser's 

 " Mooswa, and Others of the Boundaries," * which first appear- 

 ed as a serial in the Canadian Magazine. Mr. Fraser has 

 completed a new animal story, " The Outcasts," ^ which is to 

 be published this year. 



Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts has also entered the same field 

 with his "Heart of the Ancient Wood," (19^0), in which, 

 however, the human element is introduced more freely than 

 in any of the other animal stories. 



All of these books are good in their way, and each con- 

 tains sufficient originality to save it from any suggestion of 

 plagiarism, either in matter or ideas, but there is a possibility 

 that if the thing be carried too far the public will grow tired. 

 It is a familiar phenomenon in the book world that when one 

 man makes a success of a new departure in fiction, others 

 immediately rush in to gather the after-math, until the type 

 becomes a positive bore. Already a dozen or more American 

 writers have taken advantage of Seton-Thompson's phenomin- 

 al success, to force upon the market more or less crude at- 

 tempts in the same direction. 



The field of juvenile fiction has been by no means neg- 



1. Scribners, New Y rk, 1898 



2. New York, 1899. 



3. New York, 19li0. Mr. Se on-Thompson has s'nce pu'li hed 

 another collection of animal-stories, "Lives of the Hunted,"' New 

 York. 1901. 



4. New York, 1900. Biiggs, Toronto, 1900 



5. New York, and Toronto, 19i)l. 



