SOURCE: “Leacock at Large,” in New York Herald Tribune Books, Vol. 12, No. 6, December 1, 1929, p. 40.

In the following review of The Iron Man and the Tin Woman, With Other Such Futurities, Cuppy remarks that the tales contain a great deal of satiric intent but that they allow for serious thinking between laughs.

Anything by Stephen Leacock has the very considerable advantage to start with of being by Stephen Leacock. Otherwise Mr. Leacock doesn't seem to do very much about it here lately—and why, his legions of fans may well ask, should he? Isn't he the granddaddy of most of the young speed demons whose humorous essays. If faster and more furious, are not really much better, if the truth were known? Which is by no means to say that Mr. Leacock is slow—perish the thought!

Indeed loyal Leacockians are not likely to complain because their favorite author...