Says CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER:
"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."
Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills and Streams; its Animals, Birds
and Fishes; its Gardens, Farms and Climate.
"Reading it makes one long at once to be away to taste the delights
of that charming country."--_London_ (Eng.) _Graphic_.
The Still Hunter: A Popular Treatise on Deer Stalking.
"The best, the very best work on deer hunting."--_Spirit of the
Times._
"Altogether the best and most complete American book we have yet
seen on any branch of field sports."--_New York Evening Post._
Millionaires of a Day: An Inside History of the Great Southern
California Boom.
"A witty and entertaining, but withal valuable and shrewd
description of real and fanciful growth of a most favored
land."--_Detroit Tribune._
Rifle, Rod and Gun in California: A Sporting Romance.
"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."--_San Francisco Alta California._