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 series of narratives that is reasonably certain to stimulate deliberate thought and give expression to intelligent opinion in every quarter penetrated by the recitals."

G. Harvey Ralphson. Boy Scouts in a Motorboat; or, Adventures on the Columbia River, Chicago, 1912. Thomas H. Rogers. Nehalem, a Story of the Pacific, A. D. 1700, McMinnville, 1898} Beeswax and Gold, Portland, 1925.

For many years Thomas H. Rogers was a druggist in McMinnville. He was born on a donation claim near that town on May 31, 1862. He attended McMinnville College and later went to Alaska in a gold rush. For three years he did newspaper work in Portland. Dallas Lore Sharp. Where Rolls the Oregon, Boston, 1914.

"It was not to write a book that I visited the Northwest. One need not go so far from Massachusetts to do that. ... I spent the summer of 1912 in Oregon, studying the wild life of the State, the fish and game, and particularly the work of the Game Warden in its educational aspects. 1 took no pencil with me for fear I might write my eyes out. And Nature hates an interviewer anyway. So this volume is not a series of notes, but a group of impressions, deep, indelible impressions of the vast outdoors of Oregon. 'Vast' is the right word for Oregon, vast and varied,—the most alluring land to the naturalist within the compass of our coasts."

Dallas Lore Sharp, in addition to being a naturalist, was for many years professor of English in Boston University. He studied theology and was pastor of a New England church before he became a teacher.

James N. Stacy—"Uncle Jim". Sage of Waha: The Mountain Gem Humorist on Land and on Sea, Portland, 1902.

"Of all the books, for fun and rhyme, Since Adam swung his garden gate, There's no book that's up to time With Waha's book—it's up to date."

"This little book consists chiefly of incidents occurring in my own experience during a somewhat venturesome life, spent in the Pacific Coast states, beginning in the Nineties. Many of these stories have been told to friends of my acquaintance, and some have appeared in print. I have been assured that they have afforded a great d