The Washington times., 1922-05-07
WITH LORE
or THE GREAT
OUTDOORS
Combination Of Autobiography
and Animal Stories, Hand
someiy Illustrated, Win In
| PRODUCTION by Gene stratton-
Porter.
BY AMEs KENDRICK

on, henTy!
The Chinook Indians tell a story
Of 4 lady QuAil who left her mate
and then rspented. And all OF the
future lady quails were con-
denned to carry on this first Of
tenders plaintivs call.
Then. too. there's more signifi-
eancs to the falling Of a star than
you MAY have ever realised. It Is
Z flower tossed by the hand Of a
good spirit from Paradise to ease
the pain Of q soul passing out into
the Great Darkness. The old ST.
wash chief is sure Of this.
These are two Of the many
quaint sidelishts on nature lore to
be found in an unusual new book
entitled The Wild Heart" by
Emma.Lindsay Squier. whose name
IL already well known to large
magazine audiences. Artistically
II IL an extraordinary book, with
remarkably fine animal pictures
by Paul Bransom At every chap
ter heading and on the wide mar
Sin OF every page. 1t is reminis-
cent Of the best Of the days when
tine bookmakins was in vogue.
Gene stratton. Porter, whose nov
els are said to have sold TO about
5000, 900 readers. says in an en-
thusiastic introduction to THE
Wild Heart
II certainly wish that a copy Of
this book may 80 into every home,
for two reasons: The first, that
men and women may learn how
anyone with sympathetic heart
devoid Of fear may fraternize with
the wild. and for the other very
excellent reason that 1t may do
something toward teaching parents
that all children are not alike and
cannot possibly be run through
the Same groove"
The Wild Heart" is semi auto
Yaphicai in naturethe simple
record Of the true experiences "
q little boy and girl who lived. not
very many years ago. on the shores
Of Puget Sound and 1t comes with
particular appropriateness at the
present time. when the out of doors
is again beginning to vamp US all
away from our desks.
Intertwined with the autobiogra-
ply in II are numerous real gems
Of animal stories told with a rare
ability that gives them all the
suspense and dramatic climax Of
good fiction. Any one OF them
would be worth printing alone. as
would Mrs. Porter's introduction.
Among them there is one under the
chapter heading The Faery Night"
that is sheer magic in expression.
Another Is the story of O'Henry,
"the quail baby who didn't know
he wasn't a chicken"-having got
into the wrong family in his in
fancy-and Clarence" the old
gander who takes a fatherly in
terest in O'Henry, Is a character
who Will remind every reader Of
some philanthropic human he has
known. Clarence was full Of
years and dignity" says Miss
-
he would have endowed orphanages
and given newsboys dinners. As
It was, he had q passion for father.
ing the young things of the poultry
yard, much 10 the disnay Of the
various mothers"
Then there's the story Of "Timo-
thy, tho Dirty Bear" who was
raised on . bottle and never got
over the habit: and Of the seal
who proved to be an excellent pet
until he found that he could steal
better food from tho Puget Sound
fishinE nets than his young spon-
sofs could provide for him; Of
Hector, tho Hawk" who tried to
reform and got into trouble for his
pains; and OF the friendship that
vas formed between a heron and
. beilicose bantam rooster fine
bachelor friendship finally broken
up by q saucy Minorca hen.
It's an unusual sort Of book in
more than its splendid illustrations
tho sort Of book that can help
either q youngster or q grown.up
70 get moro out Of his trip to the
country this summer.
MARJORIE L. c. PICKTHALL
died at Vancouver In April.
after an operation from which
she had seemed convalescent.
By this sudden death Canada
loses an author Of promise and
achievement.
Miss Pickthali was tn. author
OF two Books of poetry dis.
tinguished by considerable i'm.
aginative power and tin- word.
music, . poetic drama and two
novels. the latest The Bridse."