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the traveling herds, lakes and rivers are frozen. ... As the winter 

 continues the snow Hes deeper, . . . making the Hfe of the wild a hard 

 and terrible fight, from which only the strongest and cleverest emerge. 

 . . . The fourth period ... is the season of hopefulness and promise. 

 The caribou become restless, the large herds break up, and in ones 

 and twos the does begin the long return journey to their summer 

 homes in the north. The stags . . . follow along in small herds. . . . 

 There is no great rush of animals, but a slow and scattered moving of 

 the survivors of the herds which hurried southward six or seven 

 months before." 



Chapters on camp outfit and methods of hunting will appeal to the 

 sportsman, but the value of the book is the study it presents of the 

 living animal. This has a lasting importance, and it is to be hoped that 

 many others will follow Mr. Dugmore's example and help to preserve 

 some record of our fast-vanishing wild life. M. R. P. 



"The Canoe and More than fifty years ago this story of a journey 

 THE Saddle"* by canoe and saddle from Port Townsend on 



Puget Sound to The Dalles on the Columbia 

 River appeared before the American public. Although for many years 

 it was out of print, it has now been re-issued in attractive form by 

 John H. Williams of Tacoma. Some new material is added in the 

 shape of letters and journals dealing with Winthrop's trip to the Pacific 

 Coast in the summer of 1853. The editor's scholarly annotations lend 

 clearness and add interest for the modern reader unfamiHar with the 

 early history of the Northwest. The numerous illustrations from photo- 

 graphs, the color prints, the clear type and handsome binding make a 

 setting worthy of the book's place in American literature. 



The manuscript was originally published in 1862, a year after the 

 author's early death on a battlefield of the Civil War. It is a spirited 

 narrative, full of youthful enthusiasm and a keen dehght in the various 

 aspects of pioneer life. While Winthrop, like his better-known con- 

 temporary. Bayard Taylor, was a traveler whose European experience 

 gave breadth to his impressions of the primitive West, he has left us a 

 picture rather than a study of pioneer days. His language is forceful 

 and vivid, his scenes full of color. He did not stand aloof and comment 

 on new conditions, as Taylor did, but plunged joyously headlong into 

 the Hfe as he found it. He has drawn and preserved for us a wonder- 

 ful picture of the times ; he has caught the very spirit of the frontier. 



The beauty of the Cascade Mountains made a profound impression on 

 Winthrop. His descriptions of their forests and meadows and of the 

 shadowed glaciers of Mt. Rainier are very fine. His delight in the life 

 of the trail is constantly expressed. The camp-fires, the "feasts cooked 



* The Canoe and the Saddle. By Theodore Winthrop. Edited with an intro- 

 duction and notes by John H. Williams. Published by John H. Williams, Tacoma, 

 1913- With sixteen colored plates and more than one hundred other illustrations. 

 332 pages. Price, $5.00 net. By express, 30 cents extra. 



