Full of hunting, of peril, and privation, and shows how a grim outdoors can transform the life of a self-centered youth. It is the work of a man who knows the heart of a boy, as well as the heart of the wilderness.--_Epworth Herald._
One of the best boys" stories published is this record of a spoiled New York lad and a sailor boy who became separated from a hunting party.
Their adventures, and the change wrought in the selfish city lad are told with a vividness and sense of humor which will appeal at once to the boy reader or any other.--_American Tourist_.
The story is brimful of exciting incidents, and will be numbered among the boy readers" favorites.--_San Francis...o...b..lletin_.
Mr. Wallace has made a gripping story, and held up manliness and courage in an attractive light--_Boston Journal._
In this book two boys make good, and that is a mighty good thing to present in any book for boys.--_Baltimore Sun._
The Fur Trail Adventurers
_By_
DILLON WALLACE
ILl.u.s.tRATED BY E.W. DEMING
The story is told with a realism that is a result of Mr. Wallace"s long experience in the northland. It is one of the best books that could be given to a boy of twelve or fourteen, and one of the most acceptable.--_Chicago Daily News._
Like all his others, it is intensely interesting, the style vivid, the ideas high and elevating, and the whole story clean and wholesome. All boys like his books and read them with eagerness.--_Christian Observer._
There is in it much of the woodcraft and outdoor life that boys are learning more and more to love, thanks to the scout movement. Dillon Wallace knows by experience what his boy readers like, and this is one of the best books he has written. It is well ill.u.s.trated.--_Indianapolis News._
The author has written a thrilling tale in which is incorporated much real information about woodcraft and the outdoor life.--_Boston Globe._
To those who wish a library for boys, with some books of clean adventure in the woods and waters of the far north, this volume is indispensable.--_Sioux City Tribune._
A book of adventures written to satisfy the thirst of every young boy for the romance of the wilds.--_Chicago Examiner._
The Long Labrador Trail
_By_
DILLON WALLACE
ILl.u.s.tRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS
"It"s always the way, Wallace! When a fellow starts on the long trail, he"s never willing to quit. It"ll be the same with you if you go with me to Labrador. When you come home, you"ll hear the voice of the wilderness calling you to return, and it will lure you back again."
It was Leonidas Hubbard, the heroic explorer, who spoke these words to Dillon Wallace when they were lying by a camp fire in the snow-covered Shaw.a.n.gunk mountains where they planned the trip that cost them indescribable suffering, and Hubbard his life.
"The work must be done, Wallace, and if one of us falls before it is completed the other must finish it."
Wallace returned to keep the compact, and "The Long Labrador Trail" is the story of marvelous adventure, discovery, and brilliant description of the exploration of the land that lured, the hitherto unknown country, where the Eskimo builds his _igloo_ and hunts the walrus and the seal.
The story is one of brave and successful exploration, of interesting anecdote, of human feeling, with scientific accuracy characterizing the fund of information, and many photographs illuminating the text.