− Dial 59:64 D ’20 1050w
“The book is a curiosity. We have not been able to find in it the slightest evidence that Col. Repington, viewing the supreme tragedy of secular history, was even remotely aware of its human implications. He could observe a world convulsed, and report upon it without compassion, without gravity, without understanding.” Lawrence Gilman
− Freeman 2:499 F 2 ’21 1800w
“As a diarist he is intimate and unaffected and racy and explicit like Pepys, and he is almost as disconcertingly complete.”
+ Nation 111:786 D 29 ’20 320w
“The self-assurance of Colonel Repington is to be noted. It is to that self-assurance, plus his vanity, that we owe this monumental book. But if we do not get too weary of his ‘practically no English articles are read and discussed except mine,’ we may find illumination—most of it unintentional—in his accounts of his work running to and fro between the generals, the politicians and the press.” F. H.
+ − New Repub 24:274 N 10 ’20 3500w
“He has produced an extraordinarily interesting gossip-book which will doubtless be widely read and extensively commented upon. It is apparent from the briefest characterization of this amazing book that it is on the delineation of society in the war that the readers will linger longest. It is one long indiscretion.” W. C. Abbott
− + N Y Evening Post p2 N 27 ’20 1350w
“To an American reader the chief criticism to be made of all these accounts of luncheons, dinners and concerts in the company of the rich and fashionable is that they are intolerably wearisome. Colonel Repington continually speaks of the play of wit in these high circles, but gives very few examples of it.”