− Ath p365 Mr 19 ’20 1800w + Booklist 16:343 Jl ’20
Reviewed by O. L. Joseph
+ Bookm 52:76 S ’20 550w
“There can be no doubt that Mr Begbie has laid us all under immense obligation through the unusual blend of candor, insight, and reverence with which he has limned the picture of this noble soul. And yet we must confess to a feeling of disappointment. At important places the story lacks clarity. Perhaps the most serious disappointment of all is the paucity of reference to General Booth’s immediate touch with the outcast. We miss the bugles and the tears of the Army too much.” A. W. Vernon
+ − Nation 111:507 N 3 ’20 2000w
“Mr Begbie has done his work well. We could have dispensed with some of his own observations concerning Darwin, Bergson, Nietzsche, and other figures of interest which are unhelpful to the story and whose omission might have sensibly reduced the size of the volumes. But where he has been content with simple narration of events and the selection of letters and writings, he has proved himself a good biographer.”
+ − Nation [London] 26:778 Mr 6 ’20 2100w
“Every small detail is entered into sympathetically and fully. This is a human document worth the reading.”
+ N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 120w
“The life-story of the man who created the Salvation army, written with a sympathy and understanding such as Mr Begbie puts in it, is an extraordinarily welcome book.”