Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
LATE BOOKS
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was not sufficiently interested in
Josef Brunner's Tracks and Track
ing to read it through, but that Is
doubtless because the principal tracks
which a staid city dweller makes are
between street car, home and office.
The volume is the result of more than
twenty years of painstaking study on
the part of the author, we are in
formed, and as such will carry the
weight of authority and experience
with hunters. 1t is simply and plainly
written, with abundant illustrations
and diagrams. One paragraph in the
foreword will command the attention
of those readers of sentimental or
humanitarian instincts who are wont
to think of the shooters of game as
mere refined butchers:
every sportsman should consider 1t
a sacred duty to bring to bay any
animal he has wounded, and he should
also regard 1t a matter OF honor 10
acquire a working knowledge or
tracks. trails and signs. Then he will
not, through ignorance, make carrion
or wolf bait of a noble creature which,
in all reason, he should have secured.
There is a highly practical tone TO
the last words which reminds me OF
the Rooseveltian views and style on
the subject otherwise, 1t seems TO
me. any properly disposed animal
patched by so amiable a hunter.
Tracks and Tracking. By JOSEF
Brunner New York: Outing PUP
fishing company.
Roth as a man of sincere religion and
as an earnest worker for social better
ment Professor Francis Greenwood
Peabody has long commanded the re-
spect and attention of all VINO know
Ii lie
1.-THE Approach to the Social question,
is primarily an exposition of the at
titude of true religion to the problems
Of modern life. Professor Peabody has
little sympathy with the view that
Christianity and sociology are utterly
distinct. Readers of his previous book,
"Jesus Christ and the Social Question
will remember the clearness and Vlgor
with which he applied Christian IDEAS
to material life. The Macmillan COM
pany publishes 1.-THE Approach to the
Social Question"
Scottish dialect is still furnishing It's
quota of current literature. The lat
est volume to appear of any note Is
Hew Maclaine's my Frien' the Pro-
yost," from the press of Alexander
Gardner of Paisley and the dialect Is
the quaint of that ancient burgh, the
original ScOIl1Sn nOile VI lhC ~ -
Stewarts, but long since assoclated
with radical weavers and bobbins CT
thread. Those who enjoyed Wee Mac
Greegor when it came out six or ght
years ago will find the turns of ex-
preston much the same; but the Pro
vost is very up to date, and actually
gets fun out of automobi' es! He to k
his holiday in one of these machire es,
which he had picked up derelict by
the roadside, and which he tried to
operate; and In so doing nearly cut up
the owner, who was under 1t, looking
after some needed repairs. They m de
1t up; and then "He chugged at a'e
lever then anither, cad it a kinds o.
names, and then tell't me 1t was In
workin' order again, but that he
daurna move nearer the toon- for want
o. his registered number for the hin'en'
o. the caur I offered him my al m
badge, and when he got 1t fastened
and the licht O. his lamp begood to
shine on 1t, was prood o. my occupa-
ton as porter at Cockerhill. I'll wa~ran
We. There was the number shinin' like
a sovereign: C0909.'" This accomoda-
ton led to a polite offer from the
owner to take the Provost long ri 1e
with him to the north, and the event
full journey is thereafter described. All