Jan. 10, 1889.] 



DAYLIGHT LAND. 



The Expei-iences, Incidents and Adventures, Humorous and 

 otherwise, which befel Judge John Doe, Tourist of San Fran- 

 cisco, Mr. Cephas Pepperell, Capitalist of Boston, Colonel 

 Goffe, the Man from New Hampshire, and divers others in the 

 Parlor Car Excursion over Prairie and Mountain. All of 

 which I saw, and one of whom I was. As recorded and set 

 forth by W. H.H. Murray. Illustrated with one hundred and 

 forty designs in colors under the supervision of J. B. Millet. 

 8vo., 350 pages. Boston: Cupples & Hurd. Price, paper $2.50, 

 cloth $3.50, cloth gilt $4.00. " 

 W. H. H. Murray is characterized by a literary style all his 

 own. There are a poetry of conception, a richness of diction, a 

 studied elegance of phraseology, a flow of rhetoric and an occa- 

 sional outburst of rhapsody, which taken alone would hardly be 

 distinctive, but when to these we add the gift of the story teller, 

 the quaintness of the American humorist, the artist's eye, the 

 poet's appreciation of nature, the fire of patriotism, the shrewd- 

 ness of the American citizen, with one eye for the beatitiful and 

 sublime, and another for the almighty dollar, we have the pic- 

 ture of an author so unique that this country has never suc- 

 ceeded in duplicating him, and no other country 'ever could. 



In "Daylight Land," Mr. Murray has found a subject fitted to the 

 display of all his varied talents, and it is not too much to say not 

 only that he has put his best work into it, but that he wrote it 

 under the conditions most favorable to the production of good 

 work, namely, under the exhilaration produced by the free im- 

 bibation of the pure oxygen of the everlasting pine-clad hills. 

 Judge Doe and his friends are as frolicsome as a lot of school boys 

 on an outing, and animated with all the generous enthusiasm of 

 youth in the morning of life, and the author has the happy 

 faculty of taking the reader in the parlor car with him and mak- 

 ing him feel like one of the company, entering into their fun and 

 laughing heartily at their stories, and, in fact, breathing the 

 same exhilarating atmosphere with them. 



And the scenery through wmch they pass, the line of the Cana- 

 dian Pacific from Thunder Bay to Vancouver Island , is unmatched 

 for grandeur and sublimity and for the exhibition of human 

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 ning its foaming torrents with those structures which the author 

 rightly characterizes as standards of civilization. As a narrative 

 of the trip of a small party of congenial spirits across the conti- 

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 mic, and full of beautiful imagery, bu t one must look deeper still to 

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 which he has striven to animate. The sublimity and poetry of the 

 scene are for our holiday enjoyment, but after one has laid down 

 the book comes the realization suggested by the author, that all the 

 vast region traveled over will be the scene of empire in the ap- 

 proaching century, the home of unborn millions of our own and 

 kindred peoples, and recalling the picture of two of the party tossing 

 for corner lots in Vancouver, and the author's remark that "what 

 San Francisco was Vancouver is— an oak within an acorn, a vital 

 root well placed but only just sprouted," we pass from the poetry 

 of the scene to the realization of its value as an investment. The 

 book is a model of fine workmanship, and paper and type the 

 finest at command, while the delicately-tinted illustrations, one 

 hundred and forty in number, are of the highest artistic excell- 

 ence. The narrative and its setting are worthy of each other, and 

 we anticipate for the work a high measure of popularity. 



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 lakes? "Forester" does not mention it. 2. What is the Florida 

 tarpon? Perhaps "Forester" refers to the sturgeon when he says 

 Great Cat Fish, or are these two different fish? Ans. L It is a 

 true sturgeon which does not go to salt water. 2. It is a large 

 fish, Megalops thrisSoiaes, which is related to the herring family. 

 The cattish is so different from the sturgeon that it is not possi- 

 ble that they should be confounded. As the sturgeon never takes 

 the hook, "Forester" probably did not think it worth mentioning, 

 as he only wrote of fishes which afford more or less sport with 

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St. Bernard, Vineland, N. J— Will you kindly inform an ama- 

 teur how the pedigree of Pontiff (A.K.R. 792) and Rector (A.K.R. 

 793) would read if extended and not abbreviated— in the following 

 respect: Are Bernard and Bernardine the father and mother of 

 Bernie, or of Leo? If, in such entries, the parenthesis was used, 

 as in the case of Murdock's Wonder in Rector's registry, it would 

 assist the novice; but in even that case Bailey s Tiger and Muck- 

 ley's Duchess should be in parenthesis, and the word "by" after 

 "Juno" should be left out. Ans. Bernard and Bernardine are 

 sire and dam of Bernie. Juno was by Bailey's Tiger and out of 

 Muckley's Duchess. 



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