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Title: De Shootinest Gent'man
Review: classic but so steeped in the racism and conventions of the early 20th century that I really had trouble enjoying the book. The maudlin sentimentality of the white and privileged writer thinking that there is something cheery about the light seeping between the logs of the the black tenents' cabins without any regard for the fact that that means that there is no protection from the weather, or his jocular descriptions of the constant verbal threats and abuse bestowed on bowing and scraping servants in a part of the country where lynchings were not uncommon just set my teeth on edge. The paternalistic warmth for the balck under class combined with the smug self satisfaction aof the author and his sincere affection of his underlings are instructive into the traditional poat Civil war attitude of the Southern gentleman, but it detracts form the hunting stories.
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