“Dr. Wallace has been his own recording angel, and those who peruse the record cannot but pronounce it well and truly written.” W. P. Pycraft.
| + + | Acad. 68: 1119. O. 28, ‘05. 1870w. |
[*] “Mr. Wallace’s narrative in other words, can hardly be called a model of conciseness. Still its wonderful candour wins ample forgiveness for its prolixity.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 649. N. 11. 1040w. |
“He writes with the crystalline simplicity that belongs to a sincere and candid mind, that invests even trivial things with interest, and continues to charm when wit and fancy, unless they be of a very high order, seem faded or forced.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 348. O. 20, ‘05. 2550w. |
“While we fully recognize the very extensive variety and importance in many respects of Dr. Wallace’s career we cannot but think he has followed an undesirable precedent in rivalling Spencer’s self-expansiveness. We cannot imagine any reader who will not find the greater part of it worth the reading.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 526. O. 21, ‘05. 1670w. |
Wallace, Dillon. Lure of the Labrador wild. [**]$1.50. Revell.
The account of an exploring expedition into the unknown wilds of Labrador in the summer of 1903. The trip was undertaken by Leonidas Hubbard, jr., who perished from hunger and exhaustion, the author and a half-breed Cree Indian as guide. The story is a pitiful one of hardship and disappointment. The party set out with inadequate provisions, and an insufficient knowledge of the country, and having caught but a glimpse of Lake Michikaman, ragged and starving they were forced to turn back; winter closed in upon them, Hubbard succumbed, and Wallace barely escaped with his life. The story is told simply and graphically, and the author while depicting its horrors admits that he still feels the lure of the wild saying: “The smoke of the camp-fire is in my blood. The fragrance of the forest is in my nostrils. Perhaps it is God’s will that I finish the work of exploration that Hubbard began.” There are a number of illustrations from photographs and three original and accurate maps.