"One of the most thoroughly attractive of the autumn books.... The
story is almost too perfect a whole to lend itself readily to
quotation.... A story to be read and re-read, finding fresh beauty at
each reading, and a book well worth the owning.... It is impossible to
write too highly of the illustrations. Pictures which really illustrate
are all too rare, and the combination of author-artist is usually a
fascinating one."--_New York Times_.
"It is difficult to determine which gives one the most pleasure in a
book by Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson--the author-artist's narrative or the
artist-author's pictures. The two together certainly, as in the case of
'The Trail of the Sandhill Stag,' unite to produce a singularly
harmonious result. Mr. Seton-Thompson can read the heart of the hunted
animal as well as count the pulse-beats of the huntsman himself, and in
this tale is condensed the whole tragic story of the chase. This double
point of view is unique with this writer."--"Droch" in _Life_.
"Bliss Carman, speaking of 'The Trail of the Sandhill Stag,' says: 'I
had fancied that no one could touch 'The Jungle Book' for a generation
at least, but Mr. Thompson has done it. We must give him place among the
young masters at once.' And we agree with Mr. Carman."--_The Bookman_.
"Nothing more beautiful in a dainty way has been brought out in
Canada."--_Toronto World_.
"It gives us again glimpses of the life of animals that are astonishing
for their delicacy of perception, and charming by the deftness of their
literary form."--_New York Mail and Express_.
"A breezy little narrative of outdoor life.... The author has celebrated
the steadfast hunt and its interesting end with art and emotion"--_New
York Tribune_.
"Is a truly poetic bit of impressionistic prose."--_Chicago Tribune_.