THE AUTHOR.
Air. Clivp Phillips-AVolloy, author of “Gold, Gold in Cariboo,” “Tho Gbicamon Stone,” “Sliouanette,” etc., is the present-day Fenimore Cooper. Air. Volley is a well-known Canadian minor, legislator, and biggamo hunter. Ho has travelled in many lands —“Tho Trottings of a Tenderfoot” describes real, stirring life in Spitsbergen and within tho Arctic Circle, and “Sliouanette” is a romance of Lesgbirj, that wild dependency in the heart of Caucasus, which Russia holds by the sword. Tlus two novels first mentioned abovo deal with AYestern Canada in a style and with a vigov which no other living writer could attempt. Mr. AVolley’s activities as a big-game hunter led to liis selection as tho writer of a Big Game volume in the “Badminton Library” and other important work, while his manual on the art of the Broadsword is a classic.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2193, 24 September 1907, Page 3
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