In an 1897 Home Monthly article Cather writes: "Rudyard Kipling's latest novel, Captains Courageous, is a book that every American boy and every American father should read."
In an 1899 Courier article Cather writes: "Had Captains Courageous and The Day's Work been his first productions they would have made, doubtless, a noise in the world, but they would not have done for their author what Plain Tales from the Hills and Soldiers Three did."