The Washington times., 1922-03-12
Life In the Woods
Described by Heming
THE READER win find It hard


to determine which is the
greater. Arthur Heming. the
painter, or Arthur Heming, the
writer. But that he is an artist
in either field. he viii decide imme-
diately. whether he fingers over the
beautiful plates Of ''The Drama Of
the Forests" doubleday. Page &
Coz, which add the new beauty and
strength of an artists personal
vision to the eternal beauty and
strength OF the forest. or reads
the enthralling narrative OF his ad-
ventures and experiences there.
For a score or more of years
Mr.. Heming has studied and lived
in the Northwoods. He has stopped
at the Hudson Bay posts; he has
tramped on snowshoes the trap
lines with Indian happers; and he
has Travelled thousands Of miles of
river and lake in canoes; sometimes
practically alone. at other times
In a big expedition.
What he saw, with the observant
and watchful and beauty-fixing
eve of the painter. he has put down
with brush and pen in ways that
bring the forest to US, In all It's
grandeur and supreme loneliness,
and it's implacable indifference to
the life within IT..
II is this life. the wild creatures
on foot or fin or wing. the human
life scattered and seeming >alien
there. stalking among the trees fol-
lowing game or gathered around
the camp fire. that Mr.. Hemins
trings to us, wildly. unforgettspiy
all it's tragedy. its humor, Its
shocks. its farces-truly the drama
of the forest.
The plates reproduced in this
book are from paintings owned py
The Royal Ontario Museum.
"THE FLIGHT or ooi -
! and other Poems" by George
" A. McCloskey, is an expression
of the ideals sought by the beauty
loving spirit. sometimes found IN
.o,,tnde. and dreams, and revery.
The poems are intensely spiritual
with a recurrence OF ideas ABOUT
the moral import of nature.
Now and then the reader may.
ike us. discern the influence OF
wordsworth and Tennyson. TAU
,hor,s and Publishers Corpora
tion)
TN watched by Wild AMI
Il mails" doubleday, Page & Cob
rnos Mills study of his wild
friends OF the Rockies, the ia.
NOUS nature guide shows that
when you go into the forests
N observe wild animals. you VIII
discover that they are much more
intent on watching you.
Mr.. Mills gives his personal
.xper,ences with wild creatures
from chipmunks to mountain
lions and grizzly bears. Al
though he tramps through the
maintains with no arms except
+. camera, he has never been in
,ured by them. He believes that
no animal will attack a man un-
less II is starving or crazed, and
the fact that he is alive and
unhurt demonstrates the truth
of his assertion.
Almost invariably he has found
an,mals' tracks In his wake as
he traversed wild countryside
tracks of forest creatures who
followed and spied upon him
ont of sheer curiosity. Once he
awoke in the dead OF night.
when camping alone in the will
derness. to find the great eyes Of
a mountain lion cleaning down
upon him from q tree. When he
stirred the mountain lion made
off.
Enos Mills is the naturalist who
developed new profession, the
fascinating one of nature guide.
He has been largely instrumen.
tai In promoting national and
State parks and has done much
toward preserving the natural
beauty Of America.