“Sentimentality is not the weakness of Mr. Richard D. Ware, and his ‘In the Woods and on the Shore’ may be read without fear of encountering doleful lamentations over the wickedness of using a gun on wild animals and birds in order to obtain food and skins, instead of paying a fellow-creature to use knife, or axe, on tame creatures for similar purposes.  The book is a simple, manly chronicle of a successful hunter and angler.  Caribou in Newfoundland, shore birds, from the Magdalen Islands to Monomoy, bears, most admirable, blueberry fed bears!–trout, and again moose in New Brunswick have been the object of Mr. Ware’s pursuits, and its results are entirely credible, and creditable to his self-restraint as a true sportsman.  These qualities, however, although they would make the book acceptable to other hunters, might leave cold those who call for subjects less material, but Mr. Ware is not one of those hunters whose range of vision is no wider than the flight of his shot.  He sees the antlers gleaming silver in the moonlight against the black forest and the glittering water; he sees the pink flush of morning reflected in the wet beach sand; he noted the vivid blue of the Upsalquitch half hidden among the hills; he feels the thrill that follows the beating of swift wings in the darkness; the shock of the dying bear’s groaning bellow; the joy of the solitary beaver playing in his own lake and he makes the reader feel them.  Indeed, he so graphically depicts the upward leap of a dying moose that one feels perfectly sure that half the moose killed in the next season will die in the same way when their story is told about the camp fire.  Lastly, Mr. Charles Livingston Bull has drawn that moose, and a few other pictures and decorations by him Mr. Ware has added a large number of photographs, many of excellent quality, and the publishers have given an appropriate cover.  L.C. Page & Co.”

Reference Data:

The Living Age ... Vol. 258, by Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell and Making of America Project, 1908, page 192