+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 660w.
“There is no doubt that he has gained in his mastery of technique. There is equally no doubt that he has lost immensely in spontaneity and vigor. One reads him now with admiration, but without being in the least swept away by the inimitable dash and force and fire of his earlier and rougher style. His artistry is something exquisite.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ – Bookm. 24: 383. D. ’06. 380w. + Current Literature. 41: 699. D. ’06. 730w. + + Ind. 61: 820. O. 4, ’06. 460w. Lit. D. 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 280w. + Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w. + + Living Age. 251: 569. D. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Reprinted from the Lond. Times.)
“When he first began he was a determined realist, and, though he sometimes dreamed with his eyes open, there was nothing to show that he would ever write a book so full of white magic as this.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 336. O. 5, ’06. 220w.
“Each of the stories is full of life and movement. Taken together however, they have a unity and interest which are marred by separate publication in the magazines. They convey an uncommonly vivid sense of that past which to most of us is hazier than a dream.”
+ + Nation. 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 1140w.
“Fairy tales which (minus a serious moral purpose) could have been told as well by many a lesser writer. They could not perhaps have been told quite as well in a purely literary sense by many others, for Mr. Kipling is one of the strongest factors in this hour in the development of the English language.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 1150w.
“Puck and the men he calls to his aid are graphic narrators, there are some effective interludes in verse, and the treatment as a whole is fresh and vital.”