+ N Y Times p24 D 19 ’20 550w
“As fiction pure and simple the novel has no great art, but it has historical reality and wide human sympathy. As a sketch of western living conditions in early days the book is also satisfying.” E. C. Willcox
+ − Outlook 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 140w
LYTLE, JOHN HORACE.[[2]] Story of Jack. il $1.50 Pettibone-McLean co., Dayton, O.
20–10081
“The scene of the title story is laid in the Klondike land in the Klondike days. Jack is a real dog, and a great one, who will win straight to the heart of every reader.” (Cath World) “The tragic adventure of Jack is followed by other stories, each directed to a particular foible of the dog-lover—the pioneer dog who spends his life by racing with a message of an Indian uprising, the unwelcome mongrel who rescues a child from drowning and is welcome ever after, the spaniel who is taught to point golf balls and so saves his master in a desperate match, and so on.” (Review)
“These are stories of live people and live dogs told in a live way.”
+ Cath World 111:838 S ’20 100w
“They are capital tales, all of them; and if the limits of canine intelligence are overstepped, what harm is done?”