+ Critic. 48: 573. Je. ’06. 50w.
“Altogether absurd in incident and psychology, but decidedly readable and engagingly romantic.”
+ – Ind. 60: 876. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w. N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Has somewhat too heavy a hand for his slight material.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 50w. Pub. Opin. 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.). [Jane Cable]; il. in col. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
“‘Jane Cable’ is a love-tale with the strenuous sweep of the Western metropolis for its atmosphere. The principals of the story are a very flawless pair who enter the primrose path of romance under promising auspices. Their roseate dream receives a rude awakening by reason of certain family revelations which seem to put a blot upon the girl’s birth and which blast the reputation of the young man’s father. Some very ugly, tho not uninteresting, characters are brought upon the scene. Chief among these is the lawyer, Elias Droom, a character probably suggested by Uriah Heep, but uglier.”—Lit. D.
“It is interesting to record, from personal observation, that readers of ‘Jane Cable’ seem to evince the same absorption, the same oblivion of time and space which a few years ago marked the readers of ‘Beverly of Graustark.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.