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Some Animal Stories
About this book
"Our chief writers of animal stories at this present day may be regarded as explorers of this unknown world, absorbed in charting its topography. They work, indeed, upon a substantial foundation of known facts. They are minutely scrupulous as to their natural history, and assiduous contributors to that science. But above all they are diligent in their search for the motive beneath the action. Their care is to catch the varying, illusive personalities which dwell back of the luminous brain windows of the dog, the horse, the deer, or wrap themselves in reserve behind the inscrutable eyes of all the cats, or sit aloof in the gaze of the hawk and the eagle. The animal story at its highest point of development is a psychological romance constructed on a framework of natural science." -Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
"They will bear rereading many times. In purity and delicacy of diction, in wholesomeness and absence of the shadows of coarseness or brutality which have crept into some animal stories, and in lightness and freedom of action, Mr. Roberts' animal stories are unsurpassed." -The Dial
"This is a romance, in the very best sense; conceived in the true poet's fancy, and wrought with an artist's skill....There is none of that sentimentality which we find in some animal stories. His lines of thought are higher; his sympathy with the animals really deeper. It is my deliberate judgment that no work has been done in this particular field, to equal that of this Canadian poet." -Outing
"He has chosen to avoid the melodramatic, the visionary and the sentimental, writing always with restraint and an artist's respect for the dignity of his subject." -The Saturday Evening Post
"Mr. Roberts knows his animals intimately and writes about them with understanding and reality." -The Continent
"Few stories about animals have as strong a power to interest and entertain or carry as deep a conviction of their truth and reasonableness as those by Charles G. D. Roberts." -Chicago Tribune
"What observation, what power of description is displayed in Charles G. D. Roberts''s latest volume of stories!" -The Bellman
"Whoever loves the wilderness and its furred and feathered inhabitants is always glad to know of a new book by Charles G. D. Roberts, whose knowledge and sympathy with wild things is profound, but who never falls into that danger of humanizing his characters." -Springfield Republican
"A great deal of keen observation has evidently gone into the making of these tales...city dwellers owe to this sort of book a debt which they probably will never sufficiently pay, and that is to read them." -Chicago Evening Post
CONTENTS
Do Seek their Meat from God
"The Young Ravens that Call upon Him"
Strayed
The Watchers in the Swamp
Quills the Indifferent
Stripes the Unconcerned
The Black Mule of Aveluy
Star-Nose of the Under Ways
Kroof, the She-Bear
The Initiation of Miranda
A Royal Marauder
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