The humanitarian note is strong in these poems, which give to life at its worst hope, altho there is a touch of fatalism, and give to the reader picturesque visions of the New York poor. There are also verses which tell of a pretty deed done by Lafayette; of the dazed return of Knickerbocker to his old haunts; and there are songs of other times and other places.
Holder, Charles Frederick. Life in the open; sport with rod, gun, horse and hound in southern California. **$3.50. Putnam.
“A spirited account of the hunt for hare, wolf, lynx, and fox in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, and of the deer, bighorn, and mountain lion amid the crags and precipices of the Southern Sierras.... A number of pages are devoted to the varied sport which the angler finds with tuna, black sea-bass, and yellowtail, with deep-sea trolling and still-angling off the shores of Southern California and its adjacent islands, and with the trout of the clear mountain streams of the Coast range and of the high Sierras. The work is superbly illustrated with many reproductions from photographs of scenery, the old missions of California, and fishing scenes about Avalo and the famous Santa Catalina island.”—Dial.
“The weak points of the book, at any rate for a European reader, are that too minute topographical detail is tacked on to some of the chapters, which consequently have rather the effect of a guide book without maps; and the use of local terms which are not generally understood.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 590w.
“The charm of the work lies in its spirited and enthusiastic appreciation of out-of-door life, of the possibilities of the enjoyment of nature, even though one go a-hunting or a-fishing.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ Dial. 40: 357. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Among the books of the season on open air sports, Holder’s ‘Life in the open’ is foremost on account of its typographical beauty, comprehensiveness and practicality.”
+ Ind. 60: 1369. Je. 7, ’06. 230w. + Lit. D. 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.