| − + | Ind. 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w. |
“Jack London’s unbridled imagination is here exhibited in full career.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 420w. |
“Jack London has performed a wonderful feat in so describing the lives and passions of these rudimentary beings. He has builded a romance of the unknown ages, of the creatures that may have been, and endowed it all with poignant reality.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 690w. |
“In one respect ‘Before Adam’ is weak; it is too truth-loving as regards scientific records to leave much room for the emotional aspects of life. The story is a sort of literary ‘tour de force,’ ably done and curiously fascinating.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 762. Je. ’07. 260w. |
London, Jack. [Love of life, and other stories.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
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A group of characteristic Jack London stories set in “the rim of the polar sea.” Cold and hunger battle with the love of life, even humanity itself is often chilled into insensibility, and the animal instinct of self preservation at all hazards remains. The stories are Love of life, A day’s lodging, The white man’s way, The story of Keesh, The unexpected, Brown Wolf, The sun-dog trail and Negore, the coward.