Nov. io, 1906.] 
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A Beaver Book. 
“Shaggcoat: The Biography of a Beaver,” 
is the title of a new nature book from the press 
of George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 
by the notable blind author, Clarence Hawks, 
whose several published works have not only 
won for him hosts of readers, juvenile and adult, 
but have brought his pen to remunerative use. 
He is known to be one of only two of one hun¬ 
dred and fifty members of the Boston Authors’ 
Club who support themselves exclusively by 
literature. He owns a delightful home with 
grounds at Hadley, Mass., where he lives most 
happily with the devoted wife who is eyes to 
him, and upon whom he depends to read his 
correspondence, correct his typewritten errors 
and describe the objects of art and virtu which 
he cannot see. One reason for his popularity 
is his charming personality which animates his 
animal subjects. These seem to give him their 
confidences whenever he seeks an interview, and 
they receive him en famille. Thereby he obtains 
an intelligent insight into their tastes, occupa¬ 
tions, and domestic habits, so that the children, 
who are always keen, though willing to be 
wheedled, discover at once, when they begin to 
read, that the narrator is dealing with the real 
thing, and not merely playing with marionettes; 
and they are the more impressed, since truth is 
stranger than fiction, by the testimony of ex¬ 
perience. 
Looked at in their enclosures at a zoo, or 
even in their meadow-brook homes, the beavers’ 
life seems simple and humdrum enough; and 
yet this resourceful author has contrived to spin 
out the story of its vicissitudes to a thick volume 
of 275 pages. To collect this information he 
says he spent several years; he read everything 
extant about the beaver, and supplemented his 
bookish knowledge by much knowledge gained 
from hunters and trappers. The narrative is 
absorbing all the way through, and it is “as 
good as a play” to see how the different mem¬ 
bers of the beaver colony contrive to circum¬ 
vent all the hopes and exigencies of a life that 
is beset with enemies and dangers. The in¬ 
troductory chapter gives a synoptical history of 
the Hudson Bay Company’s fur trade, and tells 
what an important part this humble animal 
bore in the colonial history of America, in felling 
the forests, clearing wide meadow spaces, and 
opening up the wilderness to the intrusion of 
man. An author who writes in this wise benefits 
his fellows. Charles Hallock. 
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