Books: Sky Pilot

POSTSCRIPT TO ADVENTURE — Charles W. Gordon—Farrar & Rinehart ($3).

Hunters, fishermen and lovers of the great outdoors are seldom defensive about their tastes; in fact, they are usually a little patronizing toward persons who do not share them. But in the days of Henry Van Dyke, Theodore Roosevelt, and Novelist Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot, The Man from Glengarry], an intellectual who liked to fish felt compelled to discover deep political, moral, social and physical values in fishing, and the literature of that period is filled with accounts of wastrels who quit drinking...

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