CRITICAL NOTICES
It should be put with Kipling and Hans Christian Andersen as a classic.
Mr. Seton-Thompson holds our unflagging interest in his stories. . . . In both modes of expression [pen and pencil] he shows himself easily master of his subject.
Should become a nursery classic.—Pall Mall Gazette (London).
There is enough of the thrilling, the grewsome, and the heroic in the volume to satisfy any child, and the illustrations are graceful and clever.
The book is a charming literary conceit, and is entirely unique and off the usual lines.—Buffalo (N. Y.) Commercial.
Mr. Seton-Thompson tells some wonder tales that cannot fail to interest. Eight brilliantly interesting sketches.—Boston Globe.
Conveys subtly and unconsciously the higher beauty of the moral laws which nature has set up.—Brooklyn Eagle.
A well-written and well-illustrated book.—The Spectator (London).
Mr. Seton-Thompson is the Carlyle of the animal world outside man. . . . We marvel at the psychological sympathy with the characters of this more than interesting book.—The Zoologist (London.)
These eight short tales surpass in interest and verisimilitude anything Kipling's "Jungle Tales" or "Uncle Remus" possess for their readers.
There is nothing in modern story-telling which equals the tale of the capture and humiliation of the Pacing Mustang by the treacherous snare of Old Turkeytrack. The story of the dog Bingo is a classic, while "Wully," the double-lived "yaller-dog," the Jekyl and Hyde of dogdom in literature, stands unique and inapproachable.
In depicting animal life and animal character, Mr. Seton-Thompson has probably no peer in this country, and this delightful volume of his shows us that his pen is as mighty as his marvellous pencil and brush.—New York Mail and Express.
It can be read to advantage by either adult or child. "The Pacing Mustang" and "Wully," the story of a yaller dog, are stories that delight the reader.
The artistic work of the book is by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, to whose valuable assistance her husband, the author, pays tribute.—New Haven Union.
The originality and freshness of these stories is irresistible. Lobo is probably the most wonderful true story of wild-animal cunning that has appeared in English so far. . . . These stories will be read and treasured long after the "Jungle Stories" have been forgotten.—Mr. William T. Hornaday, Director N, Y. Zoological Park, in Recreation for December.
Here is a book worth while. He writes like a naturalist and a poet combined. He has Kipling's gift of making you know and sympathize with wild animals. He helps one to get their point of view.
Mr. Seton-Thompson's book sets a new mark in natural-history studies.
