“The French literature of the late war is very adequately discussed by Professor Schinz. The chief defect of his treatise is a tinge of partisan feeling, somewhat out of place in work of this kind, and his attack of Romain Rolland is hardly just.” C. K. H.
+ − Boston Transcript p8 Je 19 ’20 300w
“A very interesting and scholarly account.”
+ Cath World 112:267 N ’20 280w
“The scholarly orderliness and completeness of Mr Albert Schinz’s ‘French literature in the great war’ contrast glaringly with its temper. He prefers polemics to poetry. Instead of writing the history of a literary movement which is memorable even if not great, he still is battering the Teutonic hordes with the familiar accumulation of civilian energy unspent on any other field.”
+ − Nation 110:861 Je 26 ’20 280w
“We consider the work, as a whole, timely and important. It must have been the labor of love, for no other motive could have produced a result so eminently satisfactory.”
+ N Y Times 25:13 Jl 18 ’20 950w + Review 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 400w + Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 12 ’20 650w
“He is quite prodigiously well read in French war literature. But unhappily there is hardly any criticism in the book, nothing profound, nothing illuminating, nothing very thoughtful even—except for a few passages—and none of those fortunate phrases by which the real critic ‘gets at’ the significance, the vitals, so to speak, of the work he is discussing.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p686 O 21 ’20 580w