1 JANUARY 1927, Page 21

Since Mr. Thompson-Seton first began to anthropomorph " wild and

domestic animals everybody has been doing it Mr. Allan Dunn in Gone Wild (Duckworth, 8s. 6d.) has done it quite successfully for those who like this kind of thing : the story is about Boru, an Irish wolfhound, who lives in Montana. He has glorious fights with wolves and elks, falls in love with a lady-wolf (white, like Bianca in the Thompson-Seton Lobo drama), experiences the joys and responsibilities of fatherhood, and gallantly saves his holy from drowning. Once Mr. and Mrs. Boru raid a sheepfold, and Mrs. B. is fatally shot. The curtain falls appropriately with a really human heroine in the clutches of a really human villain, but in the nick of time dog-hero Boru bounds up, the villain is tossed off a precipice, and all is well.