human
Mr. Theodore S. Van Dyke, a graduate of a New England college, has lived nearly twenty years in Southern California, and hunted, fished and tramped over every acre of it. He is the most competent, accomplished, and level-headed historian California ever had. He has a very practical turn, and is thoroughly up in agriculture, horticulture, the problem of immigration, etc. Besides all this, he has uncommon powers of description and a genuine literary gift. It is not claiming too much to say that he is on the Pacific coast what John Burroughs is on the Atlantic. But he has more humor than Burroughs, and an equally keen instinct of nature. His former book on 'Southern California' is altogether the best that has been written, and it is so because Mr. Van Dyke has the literary art, which is the art of seeing things as they are.
gpt
Reading it makes one long at once to be away to taste the delights of that charming country.
human
The best, the very best work on deer hunting.
gpt
Altogether the best and most complete American book we have yet seen on any branch of field sports.
human
A witty and entertaining, but withal valuable and shrewd description of real and fanciful growth of a most favored land.
gpt
Crisp and readable throughout, and, at the same time, gives a full and truthful technical account of our Southern California game, afoot, afloat, or on the wing.