Roberts, Charles George Douglas. [Red fox: the story of his adventurous career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies of his kind.] [†]$2. Page.
“The history of a hero fox of singular beauty and strength, united with rare intelligence, adaptability and foresight.... His range was the forest, rocky slopes, and backwoods farms of the Ringwaak country in eastern Canada. Here he ran the full gamut of fox-experience ... leading a joyous and adventurous life till the brightness of his renown made him a shining mark for capture. Then, taken by a trick formidable for its simplicity, he was sent to the states to make a Roman holiday for a fashionable hunt club, but escaped by almost super-vulpine sagacity and found safety in the mountains.” (Nation.) Fifty full page drawings by Charles Livingston Bull illustrate the volume.
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[*] “Has the fascination of a real jungle story, without owing any apparent debt to Mr. Kipling.”
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[*] “It is as charming in style as it is in atmosphere.”
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[*] “It is intensely interesting throughout; it ends happily; the natural history is sound; and the pictures are numerous and worthy.”
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“Mr. Roberts appears to tell his story chiefly for its own sake, but he impresses us quite as deeply as if he had tried to enforce it by didacticism.”