THE AUTHOR.
Air. Clive Phillips-AVoolley, author of “Gold, Gold in Cariboo,” “Tho Chicamon (Stone,” “Shouancttc,” etc., is the present-day Fenimorq Cooper. Mr. AA’oolley is a well-known Canadian miner, legislator, and biggame limiter. Ho-has travelled in many lands—“ The Trottings of a Tenderfoot” describes real, stirring life in Spitzbergen and within Itlio Arctic Circle, and- “Sliouanetto” is a romance of Le&ghia, that wild dependency in the heart of Caucasus, which Russia holds by the sword. The two novels first mentioned above deal with AVestern Canada in a style and with a vigor which no other living writer could attempt. Mr. Woolley’s activities as a big-game hunter Jed to Ills selection as the writer of a Big Game volume in the “Badminton Library” and other important work, while liis manual on the art of the Broadsword is a classic.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2191, 21 September 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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