SOURCE: "A Great Naturalist," in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. CLXIV, No. DCCCCXCIII, July, 1898, pp. 58-69.

In the following review, the critic commends the interest of Audubon 's published journals.

Biographies of all sorts are the craze of the day, but not many of them have the intense human and sensational fascination of these journals and "Episodes" by Audubon, piously edited by his granddaughter [Maria R. Audubon]. They come as a tardy sequel to the great ornithological works—like these, they are eminently autobiographical and self-revealing—which won him a world-wide fame some seventy years ago. For his graphic style is always inspired by a delightful and innocently unconscious egoism. The numerous portraits in the volumes give us the measure of the man: his character is stamped upon his face in the most legible of large print. As we see him in his prime, he is something between "Christopher...