The Wandering Years

QUITE the most exciting autobiography of the year. Exciting because it is the story of a crowded life of action, d’une vie accidentée, but more exciting because this man has learned as he lived, because he has acquired in a hard school a good, manly philosophy which is entirely lacking in clerical collars, old school ties, or false whiskers. He has debunked a lot of the bogus masquerades and he has torn a living truth out of his adventures. We defy any reader of this book not to admire and like its author. He is brash at times, at others he speaks with something less than the wisdom of the ages, but he has written himself into a book and it is a fine document, humorous, cranky, and interesting, and as honest as a June day in Maine.