Army and Navy Gazette, London.
A volume that is well worthy to be ranked with Lord Wolseley's "Decline and Fall of Napoleon" is "Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign." We do not know where to find a firmer or better picture of the Italian campaign than in Lieutenant Sargent's volume.
Volunteer Service Gazette, London.
The captious critic might be disposed, on reading the titlepage, to inveigh against a commentary on the greatest commander of modern times by a cavalry subaltern; but the modest, unpretentious style and thorough knowledge of the subject are more than sufficient to disarm any such hostile reviewer.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS RECEIVED BY THE AUTHOR.
Lord Wolseley, Commander in Chief of British Army.
I have been reading Lieutenant Sargent's book on Napoleon's first Italian campaign all the morning and was much interested. I hope it may be studied closely by all our young officers, for it is easily understood and tells its own story.
William O'Connor Morris, author of "Napoleon: Warrior, Ruler."
I hope you will let me express to you how much I admire your work on the first campaign of Napoleon. I do not agree in all your views, but the sketch is most able and interesting.... You beat us easily in military history, possibly because you have lately had a great war,—at least, within forty years.