+ Ath p645 N 12 ’20 160w + Booklist 17:109 D ’20 + Cath World 112:693 F ’21 440w
“When they speak of conditions actually witnessed they speak with the natural authority of sincerity and lucidity. The book takes a particular value from the large number of photographs with which it is enriched.”
+ − Nation 111:331 S 18 ’20 240w
“There is little of deliberate description, there are few adjectives, no one incident or visualization is dwelt on long. But the book is a glimpse of life and indomitable achievement—and that is an epic thing.”
+ N Y Times 25:22 Jl 25 ’20 2100w
“It is no small praise of the narrative to say that, while by no means purely descriptive, it matches the pictures in striking or appealing presentation of fact.”
+ No Am 212:718 N ’20 980w + − Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
“This incessant use of the historical present time gives their style an air of pretentious artifice; their frequent use of direct discourse gives it an air of fiction. So, except for the pictures and the appendix, they have succeeded in producing only an effect of make-believe in confusion.”
− + Review 3:236 S 15 ’20 200w R of Rs 62:222 Ag ’20 70w
“It would be misleading to say that this record of wonderful accomplishment is interesting throughout. Literary interest can hardly be achieved unless the principle of progression and climax be adhered to. Mrs Haven Smith, gives us a good many of those human touches which one always looks for in such a book.”