“It is impossible to withhold admiration of Mr. Sinclair’s enthusiasm; and yet many socialists will regret his mistaken advocacy of their cause. His reasoning is so false, his disregard of human nature so naive, his statement of facts so biased, his conclusions so perverted, that the effect can be only to disgust many honest, sensible folk with the very terms he uses so glibly.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + Bookm. 23: 195. Ap. ’06. 990w. – Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Sinclair’s horrors are not typical, and his indecencies of speech are not tolerable in any book that has claims to consideration as literature. In all the essential qualities of good fiction this book is conspicuously lacking.” Wm. M. Payne.
– – Dial. 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 510w.
“Tho overdrawn from a literary standpoint and almost surely exaggerated as to facts, is a powerful and harrowing narrative. ‘The jungle’ may do some harm; also it will surely do much good.”
+ – Ind. 60: 740. Mr. 24, ’06. 1070w. + – Ind. 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 120w. Lit. D. 32: 679. My. 5, ’06. 2030w. Lit. D. 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 120w. Lond. Times. 5: 201. Je. 1, ’06. 820w.
“We are afraid Mr. Sinclair has not been divinely appointed to be a deliverer of Labor lying prostrate. Somehow, in his tones the ear continuously catches the false note. He has been at pains to ‘get up’ his facts thoroughly, and his realism is often striking. But he seems to write not from the heart but from the head.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 128. Mr. 3, ’06. 3020w.
“Upton Sinclair’s style is probably the best expression of Zolaesque that we have in English fiction.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.