Mrs. Honoré McCue Willsie is a young woman who received her
collegiate training in the writing of English at the
University of Wisconsin, she being a graduate of that
institution with the class of 1902. Since her graduation she
has written many things that have claimed the attention of
readers in all parts of our country. She has traveled widely.
She writes intimately and understandingly of the Indians of
our Southwest, as well as of society folk of New York. Many
readers of this volume have, no doubt, read her story, "Still
Jim," recently published in Everybody's Magazine. Aside from
the story here published, perhaps the best-known work of Mrs.
Willsie is "We Die, We Die--There is No Hope," a plea for the
Indians of the Southwest.
The editors of this book are very proud to be permitted to
publish "The Forbidden North." It impresses them as being one
of the great dog stories of all time. No doubt Mrs. Willsie
got some of her inspiration in writing it from a Great Dane
puppy, Cedric, who was her constant companion during her
upper classman years at the University of Wisconsin. Indeed,
this pair--the tall, dark-haired girl and the great,
dun-colored dog--were a familiar sight to the students of the
University and the residents of Madison. The reader may be
sure that all the love expressed for Saxe Gotha is genuine.
[Illustration: HONORÉ WILLSIE]