+ N Y Times 25:210 Ap 25 ’20 2200w
“Mr Begbie’s life of William Booth would be for the general reader twice as good if it were half as long.”
+ − Outlook 125:679 Ag 18 ’20 3500w
“For the general reader there are rather too many ‘interesting cases’ of conversion described in the more or less technical diction of revivalism, too much journalism in the way of press clippings and tributes from royalty. But the record as a whole is an inspiring one of heroic achievement.”
+ − Review 2:680 Je 30 ’20 680w + R of Rs 62:334 S ’20 130w
“These portly tomes on the founder of the Salvation army are torrential in their eloquence and typhoon-like in their denunciations. They resemble nothing so much as an exceptionally lively rally at the Army headquarters, with the penitent-form in full view. Apart from his exuberance, Mr Begbie has an interesting tale to tell.”
+ − Sat R 129:230 Mr 6 ’20 1150w
“Though to the modern man this modern story has more to say than most of the annals of hagiology, it is as a romance, as a love story, that William Booth’s ‘Life’ is perhaps most to be valued. The pawnbroker’s assistant and the half-invalid girl from Brixton are the hero and heroine of a love romance which for passionate intensity, for sublimity, for tempestuous vicissitude, stands head and shoulders above the tales of Paris and Helen, of Tristram and Iseult.”
+ Spec 124:584 My 1 ’20 1600w
“The biography is a thorough, exhaustive, vividly personal piece of work.”