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...writer was established, but the naturalist was not. Naturalist John Burroughs called Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton a nature faker. So the younger man wrote his learned, monumental (eight volumes) Lives of Game Animals (sales: a piddling 2,650 copies). Later the John Burroughs Memorial Association made amends by giving the still-living naturalist a medal...
Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...This frozen-mammoth report is one of the many curious items in Animal Tales. Young (35) British Naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson has gathered material from all over the world for his anthology-sober science as well as "impossible fantastic fiction." In an elaborate series of prefatory remarks, he tries to explain and analyze his selections. The best of them need no analysis; the worst are merely gushy pieces about friendly yaks and darling koala bears. Among the best selections...
...Hudson's Biography of the Vizcacha, an Argentine burrowing rodent, from his Naturalist in La Plata...
...book's charm lies in Author White's nostalgic evocation of 18th Century life, his knowledge of animal and country lore (in private life he is an ardent naturalist), and his ability to make genuinely dramatic such absurdities as the thrilling rescue of Maria by the Lilliputian rat-cavalry. The best things in Mistress Masham's Repose are the mischievous parodies of human clichés-of-thought-as when Captain, a dog, muses on the virtues of his owner, the cook...