| + | Educ. R. 34: 535. D. ’07. 50w. |
Corbin, John. Cave man. il. †$1.50. Appleton.
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“Specifically, Mr. Corbin’s story concerns a great motor trust and a rivalry in love, with a pretty opening scene on class day in the yard at Harvard. The desired and desirable lady names one of the men (who is old-fashioned enough to be honest) the ‘cave-man.’ The story, which has many really dramatic moments, shows how love modernized this ‘cave-man’—how he ceased, in the old-fashioned sense, to be honest and acquired the new higher or financial morality. Mr. Corbin suggests sardonically that it’s all right—and perhaps it is.”—N. Y. Times.
“A love-story that has depth and strength, that means more than the usual pretty, unconvincing obligatory romance in most of the current novels of this genre.”
| + | Ind. 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w. |
“It is a cleverly handled novel portraying a phase of genuine American life. Ultramodern novels of this type are apt to be disfigured by smartness, that sin of up-to-date fiction; and it must be said that ‘The cave man’ is not wholly immune from the fault. The habit of adopting the raw slang in vogue into the pages of a novel ought not to be encouraged.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 180w. | |
| + − | Nation. 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 180w. |
“Piquánt, interesting and readable from first to last. The book is a rarely perfect example of what may be achieved when an able critic turns novelist at second hand.”