CRITICAL NOTICES
At first sight this highly artistic book might not seem germane to anthropology; yet on careful perusal it is found to deal, on nearly every page, with characteristics shared by lower animals and men especially men of the lower culture-grades. Mr. Seton-Thompson is a naturalist, as his record shows, an artist of notable strength and facility, as his effective picturing proves, and a writer of ability and skill (not to say genius), as his vivid and lucid sentences and the delicately woven web of each of his chapters testify eloquently. . . . The book indeed is a revelation.
. . . A better attempt than Kipling's to restore the kinship of man and the animals in Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson's book. This is woodcraft lived before our eyes.—New York Times.
A book that will afford genuine delight to all lovers of animals. Mr. Seton-Thompson is the illustrator as well as the writer of the book, and shows himself equally clever with pen and pencil. The volume is a quaint and beautiful specimen of bookmaking, and should be kept in mind.—New York Examiner.
A charming book. . . . The full-page illustrations and the decorated margins make the work as attractive on the side of art as on the side of nature. It will be a strong competitor with Kipling's "Jungle Stories" for the suffrages of the young folks.
. . . One of the most valuable contributions to animal psychology and biography that has yet appeared.—J. A. Allen in the American Naturalist.
Ernest Seton-Thompson is known to be an expert in his line. Therefore his book compels our respect, even before we investigate the biographies. Lobo's story is one of the most romantic and thrilling known among men, to say nothing of wolves. The "Jungle Book" is not more sympathetic in tone, and not more magnetic in appeal.
Undoubtedly the most unusual and attractive volume for young readers that has come to us this year.—New York Review of Reviews.
There is a wonderful pathos in these narrations. The stories of "Bingo" and Vixen, the Springfield Fox, are classics in their way.
Nothing better than the "Story of Lobo" could be desired. . . . It is his final triumph as a story-teller that, when superior human cunning has at last prevailed, the entrapped hero is still permitted to keep the reader's admiration and interest on his side.—New York Nation.
Mr. Seton-Thompson is now drawing the best mammals of any American artist. . . . This is artistic fidelity to nature in high degree. . . . Nothing of equal simplicity could be more effective than these little marginal oddities and whimsies. The book is thoroughly good, both in purpose and execution.
