"It should be put with Kipling and Hans Christian Andersen as a
classic."--_The Athenaeum_.
"Mr. Thompson is now drawing the best mammals of any American artist.. .
. This is artistic fidelity to nature in high degree.... Nothing of
equal simplicity could be more effective than these little marginal
oddities and whimsies. The book is thoroughly good, both in purpose and
execution."--_New York Evening Post_.
"This book is unique in conception and illustration.... One of the most
valuable contributions to animal psychology and biography that has yet
appeared. Mr. Seton-Thompson is not only a naturalist and an animal
artist of very high attainments, but is master of a literary style that
is at once graphic and fascinating.... The author of 'Wild Animals I
Have Known' is a keen woodsman, as well as an accomplished artist and
writer, and has given us a book that opens a new field to our
vision."--_J. A. Allen in The American Naturalist_.
"In its mechanical make-up the book is a great success. The
illustrations by the author are among the best of modern
book-making."--_Boston Universalist Leader_.
"Nothing apart from 'The Jungle Book' has ever approached these tales in
interest, and the 200 illustrations add greatly to their charm."--_New
York World_.
"The originality and freshness of these stories is irresistible.... In
everything he does, Mr. Thompson has a way peculiarly his own.... Even
if naked and unadorned, the facts he tells us would be very interesting;
but when we have the facts and the factors fairly dancing before us,
clothed in all the quaint quips and droll persiflage of an accomplished
humorist and born story-teller, they are--as I have
said--irresistible."--_Mr. William T. Hornaday, Director N. Y.
Zooelogical Park, in Recreation_.