+ Booklist 16:341 Jl ’20
“It must remain among the permanent records of the war.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 260w + Cath World 111:390 Je ’20 1150w
“It is the sheer courage of the letters more than anything else which makes them impressive, but they have also a dignity, a sobriety and a definite knowledge of facts which makes them peculiarly valuable at a moment when reparations and indemnities are under discussion.”
+ Ind 104:245 N 13 ’20 140w
Reviewed by Muriel Harris
+ Nation 110:770 Je 5 ’20 340w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:184 Ap 18 ’20 3100w + N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 220w
“Every one who reads this book will feel that he has come in contact with a really great personality, and will be the better for the feeling. The story of Belgium, in which the cardinal is the dominant figure, is as fascinating, in one aspect, as ‘The pilgrim’s progress.’ The cardinal’s book, too, like Bunyan’s classic, is almost as good a story for the young as it is for the old.”