Golden Dicky The Story of a Canary and His Friends

KNOWN the world over as the champion of the dumb animals to which her lively imagination has given human speech Marshall Saunders the author of “Beautiful Joe” a book translated into many languages has enlarged her range of humanitarian interests to take the feathered world into her protecting care. A new story of hers entitled “Golden Dicky the Story of a Canary and His Friends” presents a moving plea not only in behalf of those prime favorites of the household the canaries but of other birds as well even the too much despised sparrow coming in for anything but half-hearted defence. While one may feel that his imagination must take to itself powerful pinions to follow the story particularly in the dialogues yet at the same time he is made aware of how largely the practical enters into it. Miss Saunders has made a careful study of animal and bird life and introduces into her pages much interesting information of the ways and the needs of her humble protégés and many useful hints as to their proper care so that the story is something more than entertaining. While Dicky-Dick’s chronicles mainly concern the familiar feathered folk of our homes and their leafy environment the author cannot forego an excursion into her old haunts and in Billie Sundae the fox-terrier a capital new chapter is added to the literature of dog biography and autobiography. The squirrels also come in for a share of attention. Squirrie the bad squirrel supplies a proper villain to the cast of characters with the sensible and good Chickari to redeem his race from opprobrium.