“The sketch book of a veteran correspondent at the front.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of a series of fifty full-page illustrations showing scenes at the front, each accompanied by brief descriptive comment. Philip Gibbs contributes an introduction, “A salute to Frederic Villiers.”
“A well made book.”
+ Booklist 16:277 My ’20
“It is worth whole tomes of verbal description. The pictures are vivid and accurate.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p10 Ap 17 ’20 560w
“Villiers represents the type of the old-guard war correspondent at its best. The sketches in ‘Days of glory’ have no special artistic merit. They look very old fashioned beside the modern methods of Nevinson and Nash. In character they are topographical, anecdotal, documentary. There is no doubt that they possess a certain historical significance.”
+ Nation 111:785 D 29 ’20 250w + Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w
“The artistic merit of Mr Villiers’s work consists not merely in the personal element wrought into the pictures as contrasted with the mechanical work of a camera, but also in the fact that here are pictures at which no camera had a chance in 1914–15, and the other pictures which no camera could have furnished with all the license in the world.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 26 ’20 360w