“All good, some of them of distinctive merit. Not so brutal as some of his earlier stories of this author.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 202. N. ’07. |
“Taken altogether these stories have all the good points of their author’s work—strength, aliveness, vividness of colouring.” J. Marchand.
| + | Bookm. 26: 419. D. ’07. 470w. |
“They are quite equal to his previous accomplishments in this direction, and are not approached by the efforts of any other writers, save Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The magnetic north,’ which remains the chief achievement in arctic romance.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 450w. |
“This is much the usual Jack London thing: wolf-dogs and miners and Indians; starving and freezing and killing.”
| − | Nation. 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 130w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 680w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“Jack London certainly has the story-teller’s gift, and he uses it to the greatest effect when he tells us of the north.”