“It has remained for Mr. Roberts to crystallise into a series of brief and vibrant character-studies the really salient features of the horizonless life of the outer worlds.” Thomas Walsh.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 305. My. ’07. 270w. |
“For this large-minded fairness, as well as for other reasons, the book belongs to the small but fortunately growing class of the best nature story-books.” May Estelle Cook.
| + + | Dial. 42: 369. Je. 16. ’07. 840w. |
“The stories are said to be in a line with accurate natural history. However, it is not concerning questions of observed facts so much as the interpretations that scientific men will have a quarrel with the author of this and with those of similar books.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 350w. |
“It is the most ambitious work of the kind that Mr. Roberts has yet written, and deserves to be placed in the first rank of nature books.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 400w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 300w. |
“Of these nature writers, as they have come to be called, Mr. C. G. D. Roberts ... is far the most charming, the most literary, the most interesting. As for the illustrations by Mr. Bull, they merit an article in themselves. It is difficult to see how they could be more full both of imagination and accuracy.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1610w. |