"Mr. Muirhead Bone has clearly justified the action of H.M. Government in employing him as an official artistic chronicler of the greatest of all wars."—Burlington Magazine.
"Mr. Muirhead Bone's vigorous drawings of the toil and moil of British warfare and all its circumstantial splendour and squalor stand in no further need of commendation.... It is a noble and enduring achievement.... These two drawings alone assure Lieutenant Bone's place among the immortals."—Morning Post.
"Mr. Bone's drawings convey an extraordinary idea of the abomination and desolation caused by shell fire."—Field.
"The drawings are of endless interest in their subjects and excite a natural wonder at the artist's remarkable fertility and versatility. It is impossible to overestimate the value of these drawings as a record of the actualities of the war."—Scotsman.
"The selection of Mr. Bone is triumphantly justified by his terrific Tank drawing, which no one's romantic exaggeration—not Doré's or Hugo's even—could have made more overwhelming in its onset or more deadly."—Daily Chronicle.
"Whether it be a speaking drawing of a road liable to be shelled, or a V.A.D. rest station, or German prisoners coming down from the front, or, again, the finished sketch of Amiens Cathedral with the aeroplanes round the spire, or a hospital ship scene at the quayside, all give a permanent impression of war scenes and war conditions which can hardly be too highly commended."—Bookseller.
"Among the little aristocracy of war pictures, destined to have permanent value both as history and as art, must certainly be placed the drawings of Mr. Muirhead Bone."—Coventry Herald.
"The Work grows on us."—Liverpool Post.
"In selecting Mr. Muirhead Bone for the task of depicting the varied scenes of activity on the British Front in France and Flanders, the Government have shown a very wise choice, which has been justified by the excellent series of drawings now being published."—Broad Arrow.
"It cannot be too strongly said that no mere photographic record can ever approach the great work Mr. Bone is doing in these sketches.—Montrose Standard."